16 Grant Crescent, Healesville VIC 3777

Eco-smart Contemporary 4-Bedroom Family Home

This handsome house stands proud in a quiet street located a few minutes from Healesville.

This low maintenance and eco designed hay bale home offers a pleasing mix of contemporary open spaces and private family spaces. Polished concrete floors contrast the timbers and earthy tones of the rendered hay bales downstairs while the steel roof lining upstairs makes for a complex yet complimentary pallete of textures. Hay bale walls combine with double glazing to make for wonderful internal climate control and quiet too.

A wide veranda welcomes you and is a perfect place to store wood for the log burner that is located centrally in the home. Polished concrete floors continue the theme of a robust, sturdy home. A large bank of storage cupboards to the left ensures the contemporary feel is not disturbed by everyday clutter, and to the right is the first of the four bedrooms, which could also be utilised as a study.

Drawn into the home by the light filled space ahead, a large laundry is located with external access and next door is a powder room servicing the downstairs.

A large open plan kitchen with wide benches, excellent storage and quality appliances has lovely large windows to maximise the light. The curves and texture of the earthen hay bale walls are a real feature here, as they are throughout the home. A large dining space is adjacent, ensuring that the chef doesn't miss any of the conversation.

Large supporting beams break up the space, as does the central staircase leading up to the bedrooms above. Two further sitting areas are located downstairs, one set up as a TV area, and the second looking into the back garden, through the glass doors which lead onto the covered entertaining deck.

A real asset, the rear undercover deck runs the length of the home and easily accommodates a large table and chairs, BBQ and space for couches. The low maintenance garden lends itself to a veggie garden, chook run and play equipment, or can stay as is. The borrowed landscape over the back fence is lightly treed and adds to the peaceful ambiance.

Outside is well planted in a low maintenance theme which features a good size lawned area at the rear of the home, perfect for kids play time or just for those occasions when you need to feel the grass between your toes. A twin tank septic system: featuring a first stage worm composting system, disperses environmentally friendly treated grey water throughout the lawned zoned to help keep that lush green paradise feel all year round

This home is a must see for all those who feel they might like to live in tune with their environment but want to maintain a standard of living without blowing the budget.

The home has been run casually as a B'n'B in recent times and as such, much of the furniture is surplus to the Vendors needs and can stay with the home.