Our top properties of the week – The Spaces

Welcome to our weekly property digest, where we bring together the best homes for sale and rent across the world. This week, we have a converted butchers shop in London and an interior designers midcentury home near Melbourne.

5 bedrooms; price guide $860,000 $930,000 via Morrison Kleeman Interior designer Catherine Mazzotta of Modernist Interiors Eltham restored this 1976 Fasham Johnson home in Melbournes Hurstbridge with her architect husband Michael Archibald. The pair updated the Victoria property to celebrate its 1970s origins with raked timber ceilings, slate flooring and walls of floor-to-ceiling windows throughout. See more.

Photography: The Modern House

2 bedrooms; 700,000 via The Modern House This exceptional north London property was a butchers shop in the 1980s before being converted into a family home in the 20th century. Original features such as green and white pastoral tiles and an original wooden kiosk form the staples of its Grade II-listed kitchen, while the rest of the house has period fireplaces and timber floors. Get a closer look.

Photography: Edina Realty, Inc.

3 bedrooms; $949,000 via Edina Realty Once used as stables for a railroad tycoons horses, this carriage house has been converted into a vast loft-style living space. The Minnesota property was built in 1891 and was later converted into condos in the 1970s by architect John Buxell. Its since been reinstated as a single home, packed with historic touches, from the exposed brick walls and wooden beams to the original tack cabinets and pulleys. See more.

Photography: Lance Gerber

4 bedrooms; $3.7m via The Value of Architecture Sebastian Mariscal designed this Los Angeles around its gardens. The cedar-clad Venice home has a private courtyard screened by 40-ft pine and oak trees, with this outdoor space framed by huge sliding doors. No matter where you are in the house, theres immediate access into the pebbly, cactus-planted garden and the upstairs bedrooms even have roof gardens. See inside.

Photography: Cameron Carothers

3 bedrooms; $2.19m via Deasy Penner Podley Local architect John F Galbraith designed this midcentury modern LA home in 1965. Glass walls and a low horizontal roofline make the California property appear both solid and weightless. Get a closer look.

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Our top properties of the week - The Spaces