Julia's house is a spacious, federation style home which slept comfortably our family of 2 adults and 4 children ages 11-18 (2nd and 3rd bedroom had a sofa bed and queen bed and plenty of floor space for extra mattresses to have their own bed). Julia was a great host and most of the time we weren't even aware she was living so closely by (in the shop front section of the house)-she had even found us a Xmas tree to put the presents under on Xmas day.
The location of the house is very handy to the city with the trams at either end of the road and the train not far away. One shop we can recommend which is the top end of Lygon street (a walk away) is a retro/vintage shop called "Lost & Found"-bought a coupe of things from there.
It was also handy having free street parking outside the house-even though we didn't drive alot in Melbourne, we had driven there.
We would love to visit Melbourne again and stay in Julia's house-maybe winter next time. From what we saw in the house the heating in winter would not leave you cold at all. The high ceilings kept it pretty cool during the warm days we were there.
We loved our week in Melbourne-definitely up there with one of our best Xmas's. Thanks Julia.