458 Sapphire Coast Drive, Tura Beach NSW 2548

Ocean Views, Acreage & Architectural Style

House - Tura Beach NSW

• Architecturally-designed four-bedroom, two-bathroom home
• Large, private block – just over 5000m2 (1.25 acres)
• Ocean views

This impressive yet understated Tura Beach home, designed by award-winning New Zealand architect David Wingate, has thoughtful, easy-living design principles at its core. Blurring the boundaries between indoors and outdoors, its well-considered layout and use of floor-to-ceiling glass ensure it takes full advantage of its coastal-bush setting and beautiful ocean views.

There’s a feeling of minimalist luxury and meticulous attention to detail inside the home. Elevated ceilings, long lines, generous open-plan space and large windows contribute to the timeless design that will continue to look and feel good for future generations.

With the exception of a sunken loungeroom, the home is all single-level making it practical for a young family, or for those who find stairs a challenge. The home’s reverse-pitch roof fills it with maximum natural light, yet its orientation and strategically placed eaves block the hot summer sun. A spectacular stone-clad wall, the focal point of the central living space, houses an efficient New Zealand-made Escea wood heater, injecting physical and aesthetic warmth.

Some windows in this space are double-glazed, while the remainder are ‘comfort glass’ adding additional layers of insulation from the elements. Louvre windows offer flexibility and increased airflow throughout the thermal efficient home meaning the reverse-cycle air conditioner is used sparingly.

The kitchen’s generous Corian island-bench creates a central gathering, cooking and eating zone with bar stool seating and copious built-in storage. Soft-close drawers, a pull-out pantry, integrated dishwasher and neutral cabinetry continue the understated, clean-lined aesthetic, while pendant lights and timber features add interest. Tucked behind the magnificent fireplace wall, the home’s glass-clad, sunken loungeroom maintains an ongoing connection to the great outdoors and creates a cosy television area separate from the main living space.

Down the hall are four generous bedrooms as well as the main bathroom. The main bedroom features enviable ocean views from the bed, as well as a walk-in wardrobe and well-proportioned ensuite tucked behind a partition wall. Bedrooms two and three feature deep, step-in wardrobes and sliding external doors, while bedroom four is currently used as a home office/guest room. The bedrooms and living space are finished with Marmoleum flooring – a highly sustainable product that is quiet, soft and durable – while bamboo floorboards running the length of the wide hallway create a welcoming arterial feature.

With its large entertaining deck, fire pit area and lush lawn, the level, park-like backyard draws you outside to take advantage of the abundance of private, green space. The fully-enclosed yard (complete with an automated security driveway gate) is kangaroo-free and ideal for pets and young children. There’s also plenty of space here to add a swimming pool, vegetable gardens, fruit trees and more involved landscaping should you wish.

The home’s laundry is accessed from the generous two-car garage where there’s loads of extra storage space. Outside is a large, free-standing shed which has a high, open-sided carport to one side – perfect for a boat, caravan or larger vehicles. Inside the shed is every tradesman or home handyman’s dream with large doors at the end neatly concealing floor-to-ceiling storage/workshop shelves. The shed is also ideal for active families with lots of room to store bulky sporting equipment like bikes, surfboards, SUPs or golf clubs. Fully lined and insulated it could also act as a space for young kids to play out of the weather, as a studio space or teenager’s retreat.

The home operates on rainwater and has two large tanks – an above-ground one off the shed for garden water and an underground tank off the house for the main supply. Also outside is a convenient hot and cold outdoor shower for washing the salt and sand off after the beach, and a pop-up sprinkler lawn irrigation system.

Ideally located just two minutes’ drive to the Tura Beach shopping complex, Sapphire Coast Drive is a perfect base to explore the surrounding beaches, waterways and National Parks of the pristine Sapphire Coast. The resort town of Merimbula with its supermarkets, services and bustling hospitality offerings is less than 10-minutes’ drive away, as is the region’s airport with daily flights to and from Melbourne and Sydney.

Not visible from the road, this quiet and private property is a breathtaking escape set in a remarkable Sapphire Coast locale. Listen to the birds and take in the ocean breeze. The home’s connection with the outdoors gives the feeling you could be absolutely anywhere – but where else would you rather be than at this truly special home on the magnificent Sapphire Coast.