Last Listing description (May 2016)
Sale by SET DATE 26/5/2015 (unless sold prior)
Here's a Fasham-Johnson-built family home of the highest order, offering the growing family with the quintessential family lifestyle in a home celebrated for its brilliance in design, intelligent use of space, interaction with its scenic surrounds and excellent access to well-regarded private schools and the Eastern Freeway/Eastlink.
Beautifully presented on a nature-inspired acre (approx.) allotment in a peaceful, no-through-road setting behind the privacy of automatic front gates, you're guaranteed to fall head over heels for this architectural masterpiece that makes an immediate impression.
Signature design features that are synonymous with the brains behind this Donvale showpiece - Caulfield, Krivanek & Sugar Architects - are omnipresent throughout the natural, two-storey floorplan, which is bathed in light and crafted with maximum visual flow.
A magnificent open-plan setting greets your arrival at the top of the welcoming hallway and blends the sun-kissed family living, dining and gourmet kitchen as one whilst also framing picturesque views of the leafy valley in the distance. For a closer look, simply slide open the glass doors and venture onto the entertaining terrace (with retractable awning with wind sensor), which offers year-round entertaining as well as a peaceful setting to enjoy a breathtaking sunset with your loved one.
A privately positioned and versatile rumpus with guest accommodation, bathroom and cedar wood sauna presents yet another vast living space downstairs, perfect for a games retreat for the kids, media haven you've always craved or living quarters for extended family members. Its seamless integration with the gorgeous pool area, which features a saltwater chlorinated and solar-heated swimming pool and deck platform ideal for sunbeds, also provides a secondary indoor-outdoor entertaining set-up.
Two wood fireplaces - one belonging to the rumpus, the other a 180-degree turnable fireplace imported from Denmark in the family living - will become favourite gathering places on those cold winter days. And if further warmth is required, hydronic heating runs through the home to ensure the whole family is kept warm and snug.
The appeal of the home also extends to its fantastic zoning, which sees six bedrooms sealed in privacy on a secluded wing, well away from the main living areas. Two Master bedroom options, connected via central walk-through robes and serviced by a large ensuite with spa bath, allows parents to sleep in one bedroom and convert the other into a Nursery. And with two family bathrooms (each fitted with his and hers vanity, heated towel rail and large shower) servicing the remaining four bedrooms, the days of morning queues forming outside the bathroom door will be a problem of the past.
Complete with 15 solar panels totalling 3kW, triple-car garage with extra space for boat/jetski storage, side gate access into the yard for off-street truck and trailer parking, large laundry with shute, two separate cooling systems, home office, video intercom, security alarm, abundant storage, LED lighting, open-air entertaining courtyard and beautifully landscaped gardens, your family is granted the freedom to move straight in without a worry in the world. But just in case you're keen to make your mark, there's scope to build a North-South tennis court at the rear of the property.
This private retreat is located within moments of Tunstall Square, The Pines Shopping Centre, the Eastern Freeway/Eastlink, Whitefriars College, Donvale Christian College and bus transport, which is located at the end of the street.