There are commanding views of Kangaroo Bay and on across the harbour to the city and Mt Wellington from this elegant, two-storey home in a sought after residential area.

While retaining a host of its original Edwardian architectural features, the hill-side home has been beautifully refurbished to provide for a contemporary life-style.Outside the delightfully landscaped grounds are easy care and include a magnificent 12.5-metre in-ground and solar heated swimming pool.

Out front is an attractive picket fence and leafy, established garden with a brick paved pathway bordered by rose bushes and leading to the front porch. There’s a leadlight entry to a foyer with a coat closet and plush carpet that extends down the hall and into and the formal lounge with a ceiling rose, picture rails and a three-facet bay window that incorporates a door to a wrap-a-round verandah with fretworking and a pine soffit. Spectacular views of Kangaroo Bay/city from the lounge and verandah.

Next is the formal dining room with an arched open fireplace with a Huon pine surround and it also has picture rails and a ceiling rose.The home has a big country-style Baltic pine kitchen with a ceramic cooktop with a tile splashback and an exhaust flue, a walloven and grill, a dishwasher, a big walk-in pantry and a solid Huon pine bench.

Adjoining is a spacious, sunny family room with a breakfast nook, a woodheater set into a fireplace, a reverse cycle heater, Baltic pine wainscot, polished floorboards, a leadlight window and twin sets of sliding doors to a Jarrah barbecue deck. The North facing deck overlooks the spacious terra cotta styled swimming pool courtyard. At its top end is a Romanesque portico with its pillars supporting a triangular pediment – ideal for afternoon tea by the pool. The pool is solar heated with the system atop of the pitched roof of the adjoining garage/workshop with twin roller doors. There is an adjoining rear self-contained 1 bedroom flat, ideal as a granny flat, guest or teenage accomodation.

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