Screened from the street with tropical foliage and established fruit trees, this gracious Queenslander makes an ideal family home, with scope for more.
Currently, a 3-bedroom Colorbond-clad house in a pleasing charcoal and ochre palette, with generous living spaces and some original features retained, this is a wonderful opportunity to takes these solid bones and create your forever home.
Equally, this ‘move-in-now’ purchase presents well, with fresh paint and features you don’t get in new homes:
• high ceilings (some ornate cornices)
• loads of large windows for natural light
• practical dark carpets throughout
• original wide-timber floors are intact beneath carpets
• lino in the kitchen zone
• large bedrooms with wardrobes
• established gardens and vegetable beds
• fully-fenced
• gravel and stepping-stone pathways all around house
• carport on cement slab
• garden shed
• water tank
From the entry-deck with its lush, living-bamboo wall (yes, a few boards need replacing), you’ll be amazed at the size of the open-plan living and room proportions that welcome you, looking out to the vast North-facing garden beyond. A sea of green and colourful flowers breathe life into this property and a feeling of country-comfort and charm washes over you, as you can’t help but imagine living here.
The large bright kitchen has an electric cooktop/oven, dishwasher, top and bottom cupboards, a 3-door pantry and generous stone-look laminate benchtops connecting it to the adjacent dining area. An original slump-glass window assures privacy and reminds you that this is an older home.
The massive lounge-room is screaming for an entertainment deck with bi-fold doors to enjoy the outdoor living you’d expect this close to the coast. However, the existing full-length casement windows allow for good air-flow and all-day sunshine.
All three light-filled bedrooms and the living space are oversized and have screens and floating curtains to all windows (and there’s plenty); ceiling fans; and simple oyster light-fittings, making the home inviting and fresh, ready for a new life.
The bathroom with shower and toilet also has laundry facilities (or room for a bath, if you relocate laundry outside).
Take the back stairs to the verdant lawn and check-out the raised garden beds; prolific birdlife; fruit-laden trees; and abundant plants. There’s a water-tank with fitted tap for hosing the gardens and a compost bay, ready for a good turn.
This 658m2 corner-block slopes gently to the North with vacant land either side, creating a sense of openness. Fully-fenced, a secret gate leads to a carport with cement slab (accessed via Highland Ridge Road), a garden shed and more garden beds spilling-over with food.
Hard to resist, this excellent home awaits your decorator touch and the reassurance of a new beginning.
Don’t let this be another deal you miss out on, call Chris McGregor–0420 555 997, to make 51 Hume Street your new tropical oasis on the island.
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