50 Wakapuaka Road, Nelson, Nelson

Award winning seaview home

Architecturally award-winning, this is a masterpiece on 2.6 hectares of land with absolute privacy and a spectacular sea and mountain vista.
Judges have lauded this home for its meticulous craftsmanship, its melding of beautiful timber elements with stunning windows, doors and floors and West Coast schist stone. It's no wonder it won the New Zealand Wood-Resene Timber Design award for interior innovation. You will not see another house like this.
With its country serenity - a hillside paddock behind and brilliant birdsong, you could be miles from anywhere. Instead, Nelson is less than 10 minutes drive, with no traffic lights and no car queues.
The 312 square metre floorplan in three pavilions offers a superb master bedroom suite with Japanese-style bathroom commanding Bay views, two other lovely bedrooms accessing covered verandas and elegant living spaces opening to gardens and decks.
Features to aid comfortable living include electrically operated highlight windows, two state-of-the art low-emission wood burners, heated bathroom floors, and wall panel heaters in hallways and bedrooms.
Solar panels make for economical water heating and a 50,000 litre tank beneath the garage, collecting rainwater, provides water supply surety.
The house has two bedroom wings intersecting at a foyer area which leads into the inviting, light-filled living, dining and kitchen open space.
Indoors meets outdoors seamlessly, with wide doors opening on either side of the living room - one towards the sea and the other inwards to the restful, sheltered garden with its raised gazebo decks for easy living and entertaining.
One magnificent living space adjoins the unique kitchen that combines commercial function with timber beauty. Another is used as a spectacular studio by the owners, both creative professionals.
This home is a symphony - you will never want to leave.