This two storey home is a stunning masterpiece of handcrafted beauty that sits perfectly in its bushland location with all the airy lightness of an Asian pavilion. It is constructed with locally sourced natural timbers, repurposed materials, bush rock and poured earth that gives the home a warmth and ambience that is the heart-stone of this completely unique property.
Designed along solar passive and eco principles, a wall of windows dominates the North-West facade, flooding the interior with winter sunshine with heat that is stored and slowly released from the grey tile (heat bank) floor. Thick poured-earth walls coloured with ground ironstone and a bushrock (site-sourced) feature wall create a grounding, solid counterpoint to the floating timber staircase and the expanse of floor to ceiling windows. The homes situation on a quiet cul de sac and across from Crown Land (with the expanse of the Blue Mountains National Park beyond), ensures a sense of serenity and uninterrupted bushland views.
This is a special opportunity to own a building with a design created under the influence of the Arts and Crafts Architectural movement of the late C19th-early C20th. The design philosophy is sensitive to the propertys unique place in the environment, creating a home that is a joy to live in. With a footprint that impacts as gently as possible, its a space for those who love nature, sustainable living, creative design and exquisite craftsmanship.
* There are several water tanks supplying water for the property: 10,200 L (for gravity fed household water) in the backyard, another 15,000
L tank beneath a deck in the front (with pumps to circulate water to the pond and to the front garden)
* The home is heated by a Pyro Classic low emission wood stove with high fuel efficiency that retains heat in its ceramic chamber like a kiln.
With wet back (water heating) potential and a hood attachment for stove top cooking, it is a highly sophisticated wood burner of NZ design
* Brand new oven and stovetop with wok-burner
* A pond along the entrance of the property (home to three species of endemic frog) casts a lovely reflected light into the interior of the
home
* Under floor piping potentially cycles sun-warmed air into the south eastern orientated ground floor bedrooms via a solar panel pump
* Feature Tree of Life circular window in the bathroom
* Tall internal doors (allowing for efficient air circulation) are made from recycled Fox Studio hoardings
* Feature post and rail fence
* The garden is structured with rock walls (site sourced), contains garden sheds, several fruiting trees, bushes and berries, and features a
spectacular specimen Eucalypt
* No pesticides or herbicides are known to have been used on the property, certainly not in recent years
* Demand switches are installed in the fuse box to eliminate electrical fields at night time
* Spare adjacent block also available for sale
