A growing, healthy family needs space to develop individuality and parents need their space too. Few homes offer the area and floor plan that does allow children and teens to get away from each other and take advantage of their own personal space. This extra spacious single level steel frame brick home is one of those rare homes that offers every opportunity for kids to interact with each other and their friends while also being able to escape to their own area of peace and quiet when the need hits them. It also offers their parents their own retreats, whether it be in the air conditioned formal lounge close by the front door or in their own huge bedroom. Better still, it offers a huge rumpus room that has so many different possible uses. It could be a easily made into semi-separate living space for grandma or become the “getaway” for the rowdy teens where they can have their own TV and music away from smaller children and parents. Or, the rumpus could be used as a huge home office / studio for anyone who wants to work from home.

Yet, there is more to this property than just the vast amount of internal living space! It is located on a very securely fenced all usable, red soil half acre with a massive open back lawn area where kids and their dogs can run wild in safety. There is space here for a big pool and great pool area as well as attractive tropical gardens, fruit trees and vegetable patch. Right now it is something of a bare slate with just lawns, dense border trees and shrubs and some patches of cool dense shade for hot day games. This is an area where parents and children can adventure together as they plant, grow and harvest their own food. Kids can learn to water and nourish plants as well as cook, serve and even preserve foods grown in their own back garden free of all those pesticides and herbicides that are surely not healthy. A few pet hens for eggs would also be a great boon here both for the budget and for teaching kids about caring for living creatures.

Then there are the advantages that come with living in a very family friendly area where all the neighbours have half acre gardens and you are close to so many conveniences. Both Tamborine Mountain College and the Catholic Church are within just a few minutes walk of the front gate and there is a school bus shelter just down at the end of the street. Older children can ride their bikes on well made bike tracks to both the High School and also Tamborine Mountain State School. Those same bikeways allow them to ride up to the swimming pool and local shops too without parents having to worry about them being out in the traffic. Of course, active parents might also consider riding their bikes along these safe tracks to the shops rather than taking their car out of the carport.

This home may not inspire at first sight. It is of fairly conventional style from the street. But, when you look both inside and out and see just how well this home is designed for your growing family, and stop to picture that family running riot in their back yard, you will probably be very glad your took the time to look more closely at what it has to offer.