HIGH-END WITH OPTIONS
This two-apartment bungalow with separate titles can be bought alone or as one home, writes SANDRA GOODWIN.
Anewly-built bungalow offering the exemplary adaptability of ‘homeapartment’ residences popular in Europe stemmed from the purchase of an old bungalow on site 24 years ago.
In its entirety this three-level new bungalow is 416sqm internally, swathed in decks, with six-car garaging.
You can purchase either of the stunning residences which comprise it, which are each on their own titles, or buy both to leverage as one home, for extended family, or as a home and income.
“Just like the upmarket ‘home-apartment’ residences which are popular across Europe, this impeccable property encapsulates magnificent options,” says Ray White agent Steen Nielsen, who is marketing the property with Bowen Sun.
“It is built to an incredibly high standard in a very convenient, double Grammarzoned location.”
Architecture afficionado, businessman and now married father-of-two, David, bought an old three-bedroom bungalow at this location in 1998.
He was awed by the property’s convenient location, a stone’s throw from Newmarket and very handy to Parnell, Remuera Village and the CBD.
“That old bungalow was two-stories high but the lower level was really nothing but dirt. It was tidy but dated, looking like it’d had some renovations in the 1980s.”
He’d historically added a downstairs to the old bungalow onsite before embarking on a major overhaul which he could envisage would make it into an upmarket home-with-options for his family.
Meanwhile he and his wife discovered their dream property and the decision was made to build this entire, versatile bungalow anew.
This architecturally-designed weatherboard building combines tasteful bungalow milieu with impeccable newbuild quality, boasting highlevel specifications throughout.
The Italian commercial lift servicing all three floors is able to provide secure, specific access to each residence should the two titles be owned separately.
Two private pedestrian entrances include one dedicated to three-bedroom, twobathroom upper-level residence 2/46. Its 3.1m highstud living, with a spacious open-plan kitchen-living-dining room, flows out to sundrenched verandas.
This bespoke kitchen is black. Its myriad features include an impressive wine fridge and cutting-edge Dekton benchtops, which are scratch-resistant, stain-resistant and fire-andheat-resistant. Three generous bedrooms include an ensuited master with walk-through wardrobe, served by an impeccable family bathroom and fully-outfitted laundry.
Four-bedroom, threebathroom, dual living area residence 1/46 starts on the mid-floor. Again, it boasts a spacious open-plan kitchenliving-dining, including another bespoke high-spec kitchen – this one mainly in white – flowing out to its own sun-drenched verandas.
Again, three generous bedrooms including an ensuited master with walkthrough wardrobe accompany an impeccable family bathroom and fully-outfitted laundry.
As well as its own pedestrian entrance, 1/46 also lays claim to the lower level’s fourth bedroom, a bathroom and additional family room opening to a covered deck.
This trio of rooms has versatility in itself, offering multiple options including providing quarters for an au pair or extended family.
Huge internal-access ground floor garaging which was made possible by excavation can offer six parks in total or – if the two titles are owned separately – two oversized parks apiece. Sale: Set date of sale, closing June 2
Contact: Steen Nielsen, Ray White 027 557 8336; Bowen Sun, 021 389 919