An Award-Winning Home Hits The Perth Market
By Terry Christodoulou
Fri, Feb 19, 2021 4:54am
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A combination of technology, sustainability and luxury – 42 Hobbs Avenue, Dalkeith, WA is an multi-award-winning home by Giorgi Exclusive Homes is an indulgent display in the sought after enclave of Dalkeith.
The combination of soaring ceiling heights, glass walls and the use of architectural voids sees the residence create a capacious, light filled home spread across an 1103sqm plot.
The 5-bedroom, 3-bathroom, 4-car garage home boasts Carrara marble tiling underfoot that is heated by a cutting edge under-floor hydro cooling and heating system throughout.
The main living area – which sees the lounge, dining – is fitted with a gas fireplace amd extends to one of the three kitchens in the home fitted with Gaggenau appliances and a Corian benchtop, supplemented by a scullery.
Entertaining is not limited to the indoor spaces, with the living area spilling outdoors to the alfresco lounging area replete with outdoor kitchenette, pizza oven and infinity pool. Elsewhere, the residence boasts an expansive wine cellar, including temperature-controlled cellaring.
The main bedroom sees an oversized ensuite, complete with marble adornments along with an elongated walk-in robe. The other bathrooms throughout the residence match with marble tiling.
Also upstairs is a retreat and expansive study area which is accessible via the internal lift or the stairs.
Throughout the home, a number of sustainability measures including underground rainwater tanks and recycled grey water as well as clever features including remote energy management and a smart home system that controls the intercom, lighting and shutters.
Sat in the enviable suburb of Dalkeith it offers the best of Perth’s village life, the residence is nearby Perth Flying Squadron Yacht Club and the Swan River.
The listing is with Shengxi Li from Honsun Realty (+61 487 380 423). Asking price; $7m.
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The imposing stone structures, with towers, turrets and a hot tub room, lord over the landscape near the mountain resort town of Sandpoint.
By Liz Lucking
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Idaho is not a place that’s often associated with Medieval castles, but a pair have just hit the market for $6.25 million.
The imposing stone structures have towers, turrets, ramparts, arrow-slit windows and even a drawbridge, and might just be the most authentic-looking castles this side of the Atlantic.
“Who expects to see a castle like this in Idaho?” said listing agent Brenda Burk of Coldwell Banker Schneidmiller Realty, who brought the property to the market last week. They are, she said, “extremely unusual.”
Schweitzer Castle and Château de Melusine, as they’re known, stand within Schweitzer Mountain Resort in the Selkirk Mountains and overlook the nearby mountain resort town of Sandpoint. They take in panoramic views of Lake Pend Oreille, Idaho’s largest lake.
The pair of ski-in/ski-out homes each have three bedrooms, two bathrooms and three stories, Burk explained. They are “so authentic,” she said. “Every single stone was handlaid.”
Schweitzer Castle, she said, wasn’t built for “functionality,” but has been modernized and adapted and now has everything a 21st-century residence requires, along with a dungeon, which for some buyers may also be a requisite.
The chateau, meanwhile, has a hot tub room with mountain views, as well as a garage.
The property is being sold furnished, and will come complete with the hand-carved statues, armor, mounted swords, stained-glass windows and a host of antiques dating to the 15th and 16th centuries.
The owner, an antique collector who couldn’t be reached for comment, “is always looking for that hidden jewel and he found that here,” Burk said.
The next custodian is likely to stem from a varied pool of buyers, Burk said, that would include “the trophy-home buyer, someone who can say ‘I own a castle.’”
The property could also appeal to someone looking for a vacation home, or a multi-generational estate, and beyond that “there’s the dreamers,” she said. “We definitely try to market to people who like Medieval history or maybe do Renaissance fairs.”
The seller “really wants it to go to someone with the same passion.”
