With breathtaking views across Sheoak Valley; this architect-redesigned four-bedroom homestead on approximately 19 fertile acres overflows with exciting lifestyle opportunities.

Imagine the perfect rural setting: vines out the front, vegetables at the top of the driveway, dams brimming with abundant birdlife, grassy paddocks grazed by cattle and horses; and space for children to run with no neighbours in earshot, clean air… and time to enjoy it.

The first house was built in 1973; a simple three-bedroom structure, with beamed ceilings, that was destined for radical transformation, decades later, at the hands of the owners’ architect son.

Sustainability was important, so an envirocycle waste system and solar panels were installed together with a netted, synthetic grass tennis court.

Original bedroom spaces were unlocked to create a stunning open-plan family living area and a new three-bedroom wing was added to accommodate children and ageing parents, with wheel chair access to a huge spa bathroom. With its own sunroom, premium built-in storage and private terrace, the large double bedroom at the end offers a welcome degree of independence to extended family, visiting friends and, potentially, B&B guests.

Today’s home has a free-spirited Tuscan farmhouse feel with sweeping verandas, mellow terracotta tiling and rich ochres that draw from the surrounding landscape, contemporized by a mainly macadamia/white interior palette with splashes of aubergine and chestnut.

Open-plan formal spaces feature striking limed Hoop Pine ceilings with Tasmanian Oak floor inlays lending definition to sitting and dining areas. Here, as elsewhere the eye is drawn to expansive views and terrace entertaining, comforts of reverse cycle air-conditioning for hot summer days, while wood-burning stoves are a warming highlight during cooler weather.

The adjoining family living area boasts a powerful larger model and is maxed out with sensational storage options including library shelving and a mobile room divider; with metres of sleek flat-profile cabinetry along one long wall and in the kitchen.

Here, a double-sided bench, glossy black granite work surfaces with under-counter sinks and both electric and gas cooking allow the whole family to be involved and will easily meet a love of entertaining on any scale.

Comfort and lightness were key goals in the master bedroom, spicing the mix with abundant apple-wood built-ins in the dressing room and mirror-fronted cabinetry in the luxurious ensuite, capped off by a glass-wrapped study flowing through to the family living spaces.

We cannot leave this property before paying tribute to the manicured gardens that provide such a stunning backdrop to terraces and three generous iron sheds, the larger of which is suitable for a fleet of tractors or cars.

Complete with a bore, 30,000 gallons of rainwater storage and 3-phase powered irrigation pump; life on the land has never looked so good. All this just minutes from vibrant Hahndorf and 25 minutes to the Tollgate for easy freeway access to the city!