It seems impossible to believe that this good quality brick and tile home was built 18 years ago and has since raised a family! Indeed the sellers bought the vacant land from Lane Realty and had their home built to their design by a quality builder. The 2 level house has all the living areas on the ground level and the 4 bedrooms plus bathrooms on the upper level. It is located right near the end of the street and backs down to large acreage with a wonderful rear view that encompasses luxuriant palm rainforest and a wide open view across the big acreage to St Bernards Hotel high up at the top of Guanaba Gorge. This really is a whisper quiet location that catches the cooling summer breezes and enjoys the winter sunshine streaming into the front garden and onto the pool as well as onto the long wall and 2 floor length windows of the formal living area.

Both the home and the garden can only be described as immaculate. Recent updates and redecoration have given it an attractive modern interior as well as an excellent near new kitchen that looks out over the paved outdoor living at rear to the views and tall palms in the back garden. Everything is as it should be from the leadlight glass front door opening into the slate floored entry hall to the long tiled laundry with extra large linen closet opening out onto the paved rear terrace. The formal living areas are so very elegant and beautiful that you would never think that there had been children raised here, and as the photo shows, the formal dining area that looks out over the outdoor living to the back gardens currently accommodates a lovely 6 seater suite, but there is ample room to have an 8 seater suite for anyone that wants it.

The family living areas are attractive and practical with slate floors and a door opening right beside the kitchen to the back terrace. A carpeted stairwell leads up from the entry hall to the bedroom level which will catch every little cooling summer breeze that wafts up Guanaba Gorge from the ocean on summer evenings. The master suite is quite spacious with floor length windows looking out onto palm fronds and a full wall of built-in robe. The adjoining ensuite is a little bigger than average with an extra long vanity unit and huge mirror up above. The other 3 bedrooms all have built-in robes, lots of natural light and lush green outlooks too.

But it is the gardens and the outdoor living areas that are the crowning glory here. Beautifully trimmed hedges of various heights and species provide outstanding privacy from the street and partly conceal all the palms, flowering shrubs and low edging plants that surround the pool area. Then, a magical strip of rainforest style garden runs down the western side of the land from the nature strip to create a real tropical resort feeling to the pool and its surrounding paved area. Of course, the little rock waterfall feature splashing into the pool adds the audio magic that makes it all so perfect.

It is almost impossible to convey the incredible nature of the rear outdoor living here. Do you start with the large railed tank top high above the back lawn or the 75 square metres of paved area edged by another low clipped hedge adjoining the tank top that runs along the back of the house? These are no ordinary outdoor living spaces! There is a room here for a big party, and most of it is covered over in a most unusual style with fully lined, free standing structures that reach up beyond the guttering to invite the breezes in while enclosing recessed lighting and even an outdoor fan. This incredible outdoor living area looks out over gardens and through palms to the the rainforest over ron the nearby cliff edge and right across the open landscape at the top end of Guanaba Gorge to where St Bernards Hotel stands proud on the cliff edge above.

What more can I say, except that this is probably the best home and garden plus outdoor living I have seen in this price range for a long, long time. The owners are finally selling because their teens are horse people and they need acreage now to keep horses and kids happy! They have found a local property that suits their needs perfectly, so they have priced this property below current bank valuation to ensure a quick sale.