Mercury (Hobart) - Property

Suburb record smashed

- JARRAD BEVAN

friendly design.

Mrs Reyner said this included recycled materials from the former FitzGerald’s department store, for the windows and door frames. Blue gum pillars which were originally cut for undergroun­d mine support and salvaged from Allens Rivulet, while the home’s stunning sandstone came from the East Coast.

“They didn’t just build it, they waited to source the right product for the right part of the house,” she said.

The home is the epitome of elegant simplicity set in a secluded location featuring stunning bushland coastline views.

The home’s macrocarpa pine external cladding and Buckland Sandstone complement the property’s natural landscape.

Inside, it is warm and welcoming with recycled jarrah flooring, gorgeous timber features and floor-to-ceiling windows in the lounge area.

Connected by a covered patio, the sleeping pavilion offers a serene place to rest at the end of each day.

Highlights abound, including a sauna and a soaking tub on the deck.

On the green front, there is 2.85kWh solar generation, 8kWh lithium-ion battery storage, rainwater collected off the buildings in a 10,000L undergroun­d tank below the house and lifted to two 20,000L tanks, gas hot water, on-site septic, gas oven and cooktop plus wood-fired oven, passive solar heating, double-glazed windows, plus insulated floors, walls and ceilings.

Mrs Reyner said the buyers are expats.

“It was just a matter of finding ‘the one’ for this property,” she said.

“The buyers loved the property’s embrace of off-grid living and the Tasmanian lifestyle. It’s complete privacy. And the extraordin­ary curation of the Tasmanian products that were sought and prominentl­y in this home.

“The home compliment­s the environmen­t. It blends so perfectly that you almost don’t notice it amid the natural environmen­t.”

In the aerial views of the home, taken for the marketing campaign, it appears the property has a helipad.

In reality, that was not the case, Mrs Reyner said.

“That round, cleared space 100m from the property — between the beach and the house — was not the handy work of the owners,” she said. “It was actually made by wombats and wallabies; it’s a natural clearing.”

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