Last Listing description (May 2016)
FIXED DATE SALE - ALL OFFERS PRESENTED on TUESDAY 22/12/2015 unless sold prior.
Let us be clear, this is not a usual home. This is an architecturally designed Eco friendly home. You have to walk into this house to discover all the features of this unique property.
Built on a 269sqm rear block, the three-bedroom, two bathroom home is designed around a courtyard which features a natural filtration swimming pool.
This pool is situated to allow breezes to blow directly over the surface and into the master bedroom and living areas, creating an efficient method of cooling.
Large sliding doors with a flush threshold link the open-plan living/kitchen/dining to the alfresco area and pool, creating a large entertainment area from a relatively small space.
The home has an eight-star energy rating and burnished concrete floors for thermal mass. Cavity brick insulation to all external walls, water-efficient fixtures and fittings, three slim line rainwater tanks, a 270L hot-water heat pump and a grey water-ready reticulation system are among its Green Smart features.
Strategically positioned doors and windows including electric highlight windows in the living area allow for better airflow and natural lighting.
Other features include low VOC (Volatile Organic Compounds) paints, cabinetry and bench tops, LED lighting R4.0 thermal batts to ceiling areas, including the garage, draught sealing to doors and windows , a draught-stopper to all exhaust fans, ceiling fans throughout, insulated hot-water pipes water-efficient landscaping.
This home will achieve a comfortable year-round temperature with limited assistance from artificial heating and cooling.
A bright and airy, spacious feel has been created with the use of high ceilings 2400x820mm-wide doorways and 1200mm-wide passageways
In the winter months it's anticipated the house will enjoy up to six hours a day of sunshine acting as a natural and free room heater
Living spaces are flexible and free-flowing with a wall of stacker doors opening up to a private courtyard and plunge pool.
High raking ceilings create a tremendous impression of volume in the living area, natural timbers will age beautifully, the burnished concrete floors provide thermal mass and strategically positioned windows pull in cooling breezes from across the pool.
Featuring a black liner and a natural filtration system that includes a water garden, the pool looks like a tropical watering hole. This unique feature has drawn so many admiring comments.
A shade sail provides a flexible shading solution and louvre windows in the main bedroom let in cooling breezes on summer nights.
Other features include:
- 8 star energy rating
- 2 bedrooms
- 2 bathrooms and outside shower hot/cold
- natural pool with tropical garden and wooden deck
- full wheelchair capable
- solar passive/crossflow ventilated design
- commercial smart glass sliding door in living rooms with electric top windows to let the hot air out
- 2.7 mt ceilings in bedrooms
- 2.7 ceilings in living going to 3.4 in kitchen
- stainless steel fly wire security screen on front of the house
- solid doors throughout
- insulated roller door
- removable shadecloth for summer and winter
- polished concrete floors for solar gain in winter shade sail taken down
- 3kw solar
- 3300 litres water harvesting
- heat pump hotwater system
- grey water ready
- 5kw aircon
- fans in every room
- Nobo slimline heater
- led lighting through out
- auto light sensor in hallway
- emergency lights in hallway and main living area
- emergency lighting
- Sonos stereo system outside deck and lounge room with 4k tv
- internet in every room
- Bosch cook top, oven piraletic, range hood
- Westinghouse fridge and bar fridge
- kitchen island, ensuite and kitchen shelves from sotries on the wall
- double sink
- Delonghi coffee machine
- built in lounge with under storage
- Sisal flooring in bedrooms and lounge
- Asko washer dryer in laundry
- built in desk in second room
- edible garden with lime, lemon tree, kaffir lime, lemon grass, mint
- house built by Ecological Building
Call Ka-Cheng Team for more details before it's gone.