One thing you’ll typically hear whenever you enter the market to purchase a house is ‘don’t purchase the primary one you see’.
It’s precisely what the proprietor of this Nungurner dwelling was instructed earlier than she went to view the property on the market — and it’s precisely what occurred.
It’s not onerous to see why. The half acre property includes two distinctive houses — The Tea Home (fundamental home) and The Little Home — with views over the lake and throughout to Bass Strait that provide a direct sense of calm.
The primary home, which in response to the proprietor was as soon as a tea home for the passing steamboat passengers, is an easy weatherboard cottage constructed over 100 years in the past. It’s since had three homeowners and has been renovated to carry it into trendy dwelling.
Among the many most notable adjustments are the floor-to-ceiling image home windows that sit in place throughout the complete entrance of each houses, taking within the views of the water.
‘We completed off the home, making it a house,’ says the proprietor, referencing the additions of reclaimed European oak flooring, travertine tiles within the renovated loos, and the beauty transformation of the kitchen. She’s additionally put in photo voltaic panels on the roof and created an ample backyard stuffed with greens and fruit bushes.
‘We repurposed the place we may… we love the lived-in feeling and the wabi sabi nature of superbly aged objects in line with a way of historical past,’ she says.
The Little Home, which was positioned on the property by earlier homeowners as a salvation military corridor, has additionally served time as a boutique Airbnb. The cosy dwelling has undergone the same remedy to The Tea Home, with reclaimed gadgets, massive home windows and an enviable connection out to the water past.
Life out right here is simply as you’d think about it could be, says the proprietor. From the patio you’ll be able to see all the things from the altering climate roll in to dolphins swimming, sea eagles hovering and at night time, the celebs shine brilliant.
After nearly six years of dwelling right here the proprietor has made the choice to place her beloved slice of paradise in the marketplace, the proprietor says she’ll miss the views past each image window, the wooden hearth burning on a chilly winter’s night, and getting recent fish from the trawlers in Lakes Entrance.
This Nungurner property is listed on the market with Casey Skipp from Invoice Wyndham & C0. Expressions of curiosity shut December 10.
