Space to spare
Beautiful, secluded grounds surround this five-double bedroom, three-bathroom home in Harewood where the outdoor living and entertaining areas promise you a wonderful summer.
Structure and form is provided in the glorious gardens courtesy of mature trees and shrubs and a good eye for layout and impact.
Fencing keeps younger children and pets secure while still being able to run free.
There are options to spare here, starting with just moving in and enjoying its solid construction and large, elegant rooms opening to the expansive north-facing grounds.
The new kitchen, with its cabinetry in a contemporary pewter finish and enduring granite counter tops, offers generous storage and work space, with the adjacent family dining and living opening the grounds for seamless indoor, outdoor living.
The second, large formal dining and living rooms offer enormous connecting spaces in which to entertain, with the latter also opening to the gardens and walled courtyard with a deep cedar ceiling for shade at the height of summer.
Alternatively, you can dispense with the formal living room and give the family three generously proportioned living areas to cut loose in.
All this interconnecting space gives you one extremely large expanse of living, dining and entertaining areas that gets the full benefit of the sun, light and garden views and you have the additional benefit of a separate hobby room.
With bedrooms and bathrooms upstairs and down, there is a good degree of future-proofing, starting with the double bedroom and bathroom on the ground floor which is a perfect place to park guests, an elderly relative or a teenager wanting their own space.
Upstairs, you’ll find a further four double bedrooms, three of which are serviced by a large family bathroom.
The main bedroom, with its ensuite and walk-in wardrobe, also has a private north-facing balcony where you can start and end your day in perfect peace.
A useful sitting area, which could be commandeered by the children as a television and play area and a study nook are also on this floor.
While the sun will do most of the work when it comes to heating this home, winter will see you warm with a combination of full insulation, underfloor heating, heat pumps, a gas fire and an HRV system.
All of these are more than up to the job of keeping you and your family well taken care of year round.
Built in a classical, timeless style and with its neutral colour palette, the home offers a versatile backdrop to any number of interior design styles, and with the money already spent on your behalf by the current owners on the kitchen and flooring, any further changes would be purely aesthetic and the result immediately and satisfyingly evident.
The convenience of the location is evident, with shops, services, pre-schools and schools easily accessible, as is the short run to Christchurch airport and being dangerously close to Berryfields and its world famous ice cream sundaes.
All this, while still enjoying the peace and privacy of a large
family home in magnificent grounds.
The huge amount of space on offer here is matched by an equally huge amount of investment in good living.
The north-west of Christchurch has also been a desirable proposition and a nearly 20-year tenure by the current owners is proof these properties are slow to come onto the market and very quickly whipped off by astute buyers when they do come up.
The opportunity to secure not just a home but a serious investment in the future is something most will not be slow to recognise.
There would be few properties in the area that offer such an opportunity as this.
Move fast to secure it and you could be starting 2018 in considerable comfort and style.