Mid Week House Snoop...Is Back!

A truly Palatial home  located on Sydney's Northern Beaches, Mona Vale this home is in a favourite colour scheme & style of mine, the Cape Cod - Hampton's influence. I love the combination of materials used - painted weatherboard, sandstone, timber and glass. A contemporary take on a timeless look... the interiors seem to lend themselves to Hampton's meets the Caribbean-Island life [with unconscious influences of India Hicks] - which lends itself perfectly to Australian coastal living. This style of architecture is similar to the apartment, and home of Breakfast Point [Sydney's inner west river front] where we used to live... affectionately referred to as 'Truman-ia' - a little slice of Hampton's-inspired living in Sydney. For details on the Palatial Living Mid Week House Snoop pick - see the agent's blurb below. 

Enjoy.... 

Agent's Blurb - LJ Hooker Mona Vale.

The New Benchmark For Coastal Living - Waterfront

Architecturally designed to international standards this stunning 4 year old home takes its influences from the popular Hampton's style of the East Coast of the USA combined with the relaxed holiday oasis feeling of the "Sheraton Moana" Hawaii.

* A much admired home from the outside, the magnificent interiors of this stunning offering will far surpass your expectations

* The exceptional residence features a fabulous floorplan ideal for full scale entertaining while retaining intimacy and warmth

* Cleverly designed to offer each family member their own private, spacious retreat with robes and ensuites and some with private balconies overlooking Pittwater

* Focal points include attention to detail and craftsmanship, breathtaking water views without a home in sight, a sweeping timber staircase, an exquisite modern kitchen finished in Corian and open fireplace

* All this and much more are set within lovely established level gardens with expansive verandahs and a sparkling inground pool at the level water's edge

An exclusive and irreplaceable offering awaits you.

Property No. 106659353

Images & subtext from Real Estate.com.au

Nantucket Dreaming...

What more can I say - one of a few homes, the style of home, I am currently lusting after! We lived in a beautiful estate [Breakfast Point, Sydney] that was inspired by the Nantucket, Maine & New Hampshire [coastline] architecture & colours a couple of years back, and I am sure I fell in love with it then. The Shingles, weatherboards - hues of grey blue with white and bleached timbers.... hmmm Nantucket dreaming. Although technically a 'weekend-er' for owners Dee & Jimmy Haslam this home is large enough as a full time residence... where can I collect the keys!

Exert from the article from Tradtional Home...

High on a bluff overlooking a historic lighthouse in Nantucket Sound, Dee and Jimmy Haslam recharge. When they built their vacation home on Massachusetts’ Nantucket Island three years ago, the Knoxville, Tennessee, couple were not looking for an escape as much as a place to be energized and inspired.
Certainly their Labradors--Maggie, Rocky, and Tiger--love the open space around the house.

Images from Tradtional Home

Ohhh The Weekend... Come to Me!

I am not quite sure where the week has gone...it seems a little of a blur, and I can't wait for Friday evening to come around, some bubbles & a cheese plate to chill out under the pergola tonight, and for little sleep in tomorrow morning! I just love the images - above - from a great seat looking out to the garden through to the lilac wisteria arbour... just as the lilac wisteria that had grown at our home in Breakfast Point.

This weekend in New South Wales we say good-bye to Daylight Savings [until 4 Oct later this year] ending on Sunday morning 3am - where the clocks go back 1 hour. So an extra sleep hour for Sunday morning & less darkness to get up with! So here's to your Friday evening - be it a pizza night, a toasted sandwich night, or out on the town with friends! Happy Friday & Welcome Weekend! Enjoy - S x

Image from House Beautiful

Hello Friday... Welcome Weekend!

What a disjointed week it seems to have been... I am always glad to greet Friday, this week more so!! My home is getting some more attention this weekend, although we live in a reasonably new home [we bought off the plan about 4 years ago and moved in just on 3 years ago] we have just finished building a lovely pergola & putting the roof on last week & with that I have some touch up painting to do on the white timber structure. It's so wonderful to have an outside area protected from the elements but still with the ability to enjoy the garden surrounds. Our pergola was based on a previous one that we had when we lived at Breakfast Point [a gorgeous residential development located in the Inner West, Sydney - with style & influence from Cape Cod Maine / Hamptons coastline].

With that I also have some Autumn gardening - light pruning, spraying for pests with Eco-oil and giving the lawn some attention to eliminate those pesky curl-grubs! Over the past several months in Sydney - we have had a slight 'plague' of white moth [which then lays eggs in the soil - and curl grubs hatch from these eggs]. Curl grubs are the number one killer of beautiful lawn & garden plant root systems.... so if you haven't sprayed with your Eco-oil/ pest oil or Mrs Mac's [for the lawn] best to get to it before the much cooler months are upon us and save your root systems... For some great gardening advice, Saturday mornings from 6am to 9am, I always try to tune into a Sydney radio show 'The Garden Clinc' with Graham, Sandra & Linda Ross and Luke on 2GB, on 873 AM , for interstate and O.S guests - you can stream this program from the net so to listen in- if you cannot get this frequency locally...

Whatever you're up to this weekend - I wish you a wonderful one! Enjoy x

Image from Southern Accents - links & info 'The Garden Clinic'