Domain Prestige - November 27, 2019

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PRESTIGE THE BEST IN AUSTRALIAN PROPERTY

VIEW TO ENTERTAINING A place to celebrate

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Point Piper Sydney 20/55 Wolseley Road $5.8 million J E N M E LO CCO

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Auction: December 3 Agent: Ray White TRG, Gavin Rubinstein 0424 532 451 It’s about this time of year that long-overdue catch-ups with family and

This penthouse delivers the gun-barrel Harbour

friends are on the agenda. And, while there are plenty of options to gather

Bridge views for which the exclusive suburb of

around the country in the form of restaurants and venues, there is nothing

Point Piper is renowned. Enjoy the sweeping vista

quite like entertaining at home. In our cover story this week we look at what

from almost every room, while also making the

are the top entertaining features in high-end homes today – and we step

most of the large living room with concealed wet

inside a great home for hosting, with a view of Sydney Harbour, that is now

bar, the marble kitchen and bathrooms and

on the market. Meanwhile in our Living In column, we take a trip to Stirling in

ducted airconditioning.

the Adelaide Hills. The South Australian town offers the best of both worlds – a small-town community feel but within an easy commute to the Adelaide CBD. “Stirling’s advantage is how well-appointed it is,” says resident and

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author Sue Morgan. “The climate is a little cooler and there are great

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restaurants, coffee shops and supermarkets. It’s a village size that works

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very well for people.”

Editor: Jen Melocco Jen.Melocco@domain. com.au Editorial producer: Isabelle Chesher Managing editor: Alice Stolz Senior designer: Colleen Chin Quan Graphic designer: Emma Staughton Group picture editor: Kylie Thomson Chief executive officer: Jason Pellegrino Chief consumer officer: Jason Chuck Residential sales: Queensland Brad McLeod 0429 571 826 New South Wales Belinda Sinclair 0414 580 903 Victoria & Tasmania Mitch Armstrong 0438 820 767 Western Australia, South Australia & Northern Territory Jeroen van de Peppel 0427 292 797

HOT PROPERTY

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O U R COVE R 2 Moran Street, Mosman.

COVER STORY Hosting at home

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LIVING IN Stirling

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Mosman Sydney 2/40 Upper Almora Street $10 million

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Expressions of interest: close December 3 Agent: Belle Property Mosman, Tim Foote 0416 090 191 If you can tear your gaze away from the spellbinding harbour views, there’s plenty to see inside this whole-floor apartment, one of six in the PBD Architects-designed the Balmoral. Picture marble finishes, designer wallpaper, Poliform joinery and oak flooring, plus Miele appliances.

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Cooroy Mountain

Unley Park

Sunshine Coast 140 Solar Road

Adelaide 1 View Street

$4.995 million +

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A private hilltop retreat spanning almost 40 hectares, Santagata

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captures panoramic views of the coast and mountains and comes with

This impressive Victorian villa has a bluestone

landscaped gardens and a multipurpose 800-square-metre warehouse.

facade and sits on a 3033-square-metre land parcel with a north-south tennis court.

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DESIGN DIGEST

Good intentions Great design can help set the mood to gather around and build human connections. C o m p i l e d b y PAU LIN E M O RRIS SE Y FACE TO FACE LOUNGE Designed by Gordon Guillaumier in 2017, the Face to Face Lounge has now been reinterpreted by Tacchini, honouring the original design’s intention to create a space for one-to-one connections. stylecraft.com.au

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PEACHES BAR Design studio Pierce Widera is behind this Melbourne CBD bar.

The pastel-toned bar features circular pendants, upholstered booths in textured blush fabric and candy-coloured terrazzo table tops. piercewidera.com.au

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TERRAZZO CURVE TABLE Studio Mignone’s Curve Collection presents a soft-edged coffee table,

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with both pillars and table top featuring a rounded profile. The legs of this sculptural piece come with

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No place like home for entertaining

COVER STORY

Buyers are looking out for impressive spaces that make it easy to host friends and family. B y SU E WILLIAMS

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he approaching festive season and summer break are prime time for getting together with family and friends. And high-end agents are reporting that Australians are opting to entertain more at home, and prioritising great spaces for doing that in their chosen property.

“Every conversation I have at the moment is about entertaining at home,” says agent Michael Coombs of Sydney’s LJ Hooker Avnu/Lower North Shore, who’s currently selling a house on Moran Street in Sydney’s Mosman with no fewer than three outdoor entertaining areas.

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“Everyone wants to entertain at home and have quality time with family and friends in a relaxed environment, especially as we approach Christmas time.”

It’s the same story around the country.

“I think when you entertain at home, there’s definitely a feeling of safety and security,” says Nicole Gleeson of Kay & Burton South Yarra, who has a home on the market with a multitude of entertaining spaces on Toorak’s Stradbroke Avenue. “And if you have a beautiful home, why not use it for that? Entertaining at home, and wanting to make the most of those areas,

especially when they’re integrated with outdoor spaces, is on a bit of a high at the moment.”

The research backs them up. Social trends demographer Mark McCrindle found that Generation Y is leading the way back into home entertaining with 31 per cent increasing the frequency with which they entertain at home, 54 per cent cooking meals for guests and 46 per cent cooking for a social dinner party.

In addition, the sale of print cookbooks rose 21 per cent last year compared with 2017, according to NPD Bookscan data. Cookbook author Sophie Hansen says we’ve now recovered from a period of not entertaining at home when we were intimidated by cooking shows preparing elaborate dishes.

People are looking for kitchens that have plenty of room for guests to stand around, or perch on stools, to drink and chat to the host while they’re cooking, says Poliform Australia NSW state manager Meredith Ong. “Kitchens are very sociable places nowadays, and people like to feel almost as if they’re in an external bar, or standing around a barbecue.

YOUR AGENT Michael Coombs, LJ Hooker Avnu-Lower North Shore

“This four-year-old home has wonderful indoor-outdoor family living and entertaining, with outdoor entertaining areas, including the balcony with gun-barrel views down the harbour.”

“Also, home owners who like to entertain want a kitchen with grunt and space for lots of appliances and to put down big platters.

“If there’s room for a scullery or butler’s pantry, they’ll have a second stove, wine fridge and dishwasher in there as a secondary cooking area, especially if they have hired help, and keep the Sub-Zero fridge for the main kitchen.”

Most prestige properties now have large dining areas or outdoor settings on terraces, decks or by pools as almost obligatory features, but award-winning architect Steve Koolloos of MCK Architects says the trend is to go further still.

“People now want to entertain more and they love the idea of friends coming over,” he says.

“They’ve shifted to the outside to do it too.

“I think sometimes there’s a little bit of showmanship there too, when people might want an outdoor kitchen with a pizza oven and a firepit and wonderful things that 20 years ago no one would have ever thought of having in the backyard.

“They’re now all great contributions to outdoor living.”

Mosman Sydney 2 Moran Street $7.5 million

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Auction: December 7 Agent: LJ Hooker Avnu-Lower North Shore, Michael Coombs 0424 391 255

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LIVING IN

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STIRLING

Picturesque Stirling is in the heart of the Adelaide Hills, yet also within reach of the city. B y K ATE FARRE LLY

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Stirling

The countdown to the festive season is on but

to get to town if you need to,” she says. “The Hills

leaving the Christmas shopping to the final days

offers a sense of peace and privacy, of being

Adelaide Hills 26 Sturt Valley Road

is no big deal in Stirling with the popular monthly

more among nature and we get great wildlife and

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markets offering everything from jewellery and

birdlife. But there are great wineries as well and

jam to kids’ clothes, cottage plants, collectables

everywhere you travel is quite scenic, so you have

and craft.

lovely journeys wherever you’re going.”

And when these offerings in Druid Avenue are combined with Stirling Laneways, a local initiative

Creative community

that runs in conjunction with the markets, the

Morgan was so inspired by her new home she set

area comes alive with South Australian artists

her first published book, the young adult novel

and entertainers who mingle with the local

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traders and pop-up stalls.

Hide, which she describes as “Celtic/Aussie noir”

Festive buzz “Stirling is a great place to be leading into the festive season,” says Harcourts Williams agent

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was launched this month and Morgan says she is “just coming down from the high” and enjoying “our little corner of the world” again.

With family still in the UK, Morgan travels back

Dee-Anne Hunt. “There’s always something

whenever she can but says she definitely calls

interesting going on. One of the things I love

Stirling home.

For sale Agent: Harcourts Williams, Dee-Anne Hunt

about Stirling is if you’re really interested in sport

“I don’t think I could live in Britain now,” she

or books or gardens or music, you can find a local

says. “It’s a relief to come back to the Hills and

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group that supports your interest and has a

surround myself in nature again.”

The award-winning botanical gardens at

wealth of knowledge to share.”

For author Sue Morgan, Stirling offers the perfect blend of town and country. Morgan, who grew up in England, moved her young family to

Home to a diverse community, Stirling has a

Wensleydale have been painstakingly restored to

country feel with a cosmopolitan vibe to it, says

their former glory and boast a riot of perfumes,

Hunt.

colour, and textures across 7550 square metres.

“We are lucky we have so many great townships

the Hills from New Zealand about 15 years ago

in the Hills but Stirling’s advantage is how well-

when her husband found work in Adelaide. She

appointed it is. The climate is a little bit cooler,

The Stirling property

counts herself lucky to have ended up in Stirling.

there are great restaurants, coffee shops and

Wensleydale has a

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supermarkets. It’s a village size that works very

relaxed feel, much like

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well for people.”

the area.

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“You feel psychologically that you’re a long way from the hustle and bustle of town [yet] it’s easy

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The ‘PALAZZO PULLENVALE’ A BRISBANE ICON. From the visionaries behind the famed Palazzo Versace hotel, this grand Italianate villa gracing

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a private 3 acre estate high atop ‘Millionaires Ridge’ affording spectacular uninterrupted views North and East

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across greater Brookfield, Mt Coot-tha and the city is a purchasing opportunity that it as rare as it is unique. The final word in indulgence and meticulous attention to detail, the grand 5 bedroom, 7.5 bathroom mansion with its

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liberal application of rare and exotic materiel of marble, Kashmiri gold granite and signature parquetry flooring is an

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enduring testament to what is possible when a world class developer, architecture and position combine.

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25 Waterloo Esplanade Wynnum

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Magnificent and incomparable, ‘San Remo’ rests on an enormous stately 1,113m2 property in one of

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Brisbane’s best dress-circle locations, Waterloo Esplanade, Wynnum, with stunning unobstructed views, breezes, and direct access to our magnificent Moreton Bay. This waterfront jewel boasts elegance, beauty and sophistication. It sits embraced by park-like manicured gardens and sprawling lawns with landscaped in-ground pool, while deep wraparound lace verandas adorn this luxury home framing its beauty and character.

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Collaroy Road – Guanaba – Gold Coast Hinterland – QLD 4 bed / 3 bath / large office / mini cinema / huge games/gym room / 1 br cottage Dual Living and only 12 minutes from MovieWorld. 11 acres of prime horse-country on the Coomera river. A prestige property with Hampton style elements set in park-like surroundings. Imposing lounge with granite fireplace. Recycled timber chefs kitchen. Resort style master bedroom and en-suite. Unique wrought iron staircase. Beautiful limestone and Blackbutt flooring. Numerous bespoke features. 1 br cute Cottage, 10Kw solar, extensive paddocks, stables, sheds, and workshop. A country oasis 50 minutes from Brisbane and close to everything the Gold Coast has to offer this property is one of a kind. Call to inspect. www.facebook.com/CollaroyRoad

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eldersrealestate.com.au ‘PROSPECT HOUSE’ – Circa 1824, Hamilton, Tasmania

485 Upper Mill Road, Hamilton, Tasmania For those that enjoy the challenge of the trout, there are numerous lakes and rivers nearby, for bushwalking enthusiasts, or for those that seek out Tasmania’s famed produce there is Russel Falls National Park, cherry orchards, hop fields, the Salmon Ponds and award winning vineyards all within a very short drive.

Prospect House is one of the finest examples of Tasmania’s early colonial, sandstone homes: it is elegant, it is a delight, it is a rare treasure.

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Expressions of Interest Over $865,000 Closing Friday, 20 December Inspection Strictly by appointment with Agent Peter Wade 0417 395 584 peter.wade@eldersrealestate.com.au Elders Real Estate Kingborough 1/1726 Channel Highway, Margate, TAS 7054 eldersrealestate.com.au/21554649 https://eldking.co/Prospect-House RE461

Prospect House is a charming example of an early colonial, sandstone home. The meticulously and sympathetically restored home exudes quality and fine finishes and provides a very comfortable country lifestyle. The home is set on 4,790 m2 (a little over 1 acre) of stunning gardens which are regularly visited by gardening enthusiasts from across the globe. Prospect House is a magnificent, historic home with a stunning new country kitchen and bathroom ensuring comfort and style whilst respecting the heritage and character of the property.

Prospect House would make for an ideal reception destination and has great potential for airBNB accommodation (STCA). The property overlooks rolling farmland and the historic village of Hamilton which is a 60 minute +/- scenic drive from Hobart via New Norfolk and the River Derwent. Prospect House lies at the heart of the rich, fertile farming district of the Derwent Valley.

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