Ormond’s greatest estate comes with uncompromising luxury, irreplaceable quality and an unparalleled entertainers’ lifestyle. The grand family estate of an international property developer and a professional interior designer, this breathtaking approx 1022sqm property provides five bedrooms, a home-office and 3.5 bathrooms across an imposing manor-style home and poolside guest house… set in formal gardens with a semi-circle drive, oversize through-access double auto-garage and resort-style pool.Fully constructed from Daniel Robertson artisan bricks by luxury builders, Englehart Homes, this grand residence provides a unique lifestyle opportunity with expansive formal lounge-dining to welcome friends, vast casual and Vergola-sheltered al fresco zones to bring family together, a fully-appointed theatre-room for a Gold-Class experience, and a first-floor lounge to give kids their own space. Impressively accommodating with a balconied master-domain (comprising bedroom with retreat, walk-through robes and 5 Star spa-ensuite), the home offers well-zoned children’s bedrooms with triple robes, a business-at-home office…and more living in the guest-house – conceived as a fully self-contained one-bedroom unit for adult children, in-laws, guests or staff.Starring a Shaker-style kitchen with elite Ilve appliances, the home is a showcase of hand-selected finishes with Emporite cabinetry and natural granite benchtops for the kitchen, Emprador marble for the ensuite, and Crema Marfil marble for tiles, powder-room and hearth. With warm Brushbox parquetry alongside the plushest premium carpets, and a contemporary chandelier from Armadale’s Custom Lighting for formal dining, the home is intricately detailed – most notably with a stylised Grecian Key motif echoed from the marble-inlaid entry, to the ensuite, to outdoors; around the pool and al fresco shower.Combining luxury and functionality with well-chosen window-furnishings (including e-screen and block-out blinds, bespoke curtains, plantation shutters and climate-controlling roller-shutters), it’s all include here from walk-in and dual-duty laundry/butler’s pantries - to a laundry chute! Climate controlled over four zones by ducted reverse-cycle air-conditioning plus a gas-fireplace, the home features alarm and video intercom security, ducted vacuum, and surround-sound ceiling-speakers - inside, outside, upstairs and down.Set in a formal landscape with an Italian-style colonnade of pencil pines culminating in a rare Illawarra flame-tree, there are lawns for kids to play, extensive random sandstone paving to entertain, and an amenity area with 6000L water-storage and kitchen-garden to harvest this winter. There’s even a palazzo-style water-garden centred on a gentle fountain to guide guests directly to the glass-tiled solar-heated pool and entertainers’ rear garden.In a highpoint position with balcony views to the Dandenongs, even this location holds grand appeal for family life. A walk to Ormond station and one block to bus-routes to both campuses of Monash University, this once-in-a lifetime estate has the retail and rail strip almost around the corner, Chadstone’s world-class shopping within minutes, and McKinnon Primary School in Zone.
