We have recently renovated our delightful, but tiny, weatherboard ‘worker’s cottage’ (built 1926) into a two storey home. We love our 'new' home and also the fantastic lifestyle that comes with living in a thriving inner city location with a wonderful local community.
Our home has four bedrooms upstairs, three with wardrobes, one currently configured as a nursery, two kid's rooms with single beds, a spare room with a queen bed, a bathroom with shower and bath and a separate toilet. As we would like a long swap, we would prefer to store some of our things in one of the upstairs rooms, and keep it unused, but this is negotiable. Downstairs is the master bedroom, with a king-size bed, another large bathroom with bath and shower and powder room. There is a beautiful, light-filled, open plan kitchen, dining and family room as well as a cosy lounge/library with a gas fireplace in the original front part of the house. There is a european laundry with a separate storage/mud room next door.
We have a good-sized private front outdoor area, with security-gated fence, a great patio for entertaining and a lovely native-planted easy-care garden, which does require some hand-watering during the dry months from November to March. The home is very secure with friendly neighbours on three sides.
We have a gentle, elderly, black cat (Danny) that is free to roam during the day but must be brought in at nightfall - to protect him from cars and the roosting birds from him.