The large gardens at Stonefields have been a laboratory of kinds for Paul Bangay.
With its mesmerizing gardens, Stonefields is a feast for the eyes and so it ought to be. The 50-acre unfold has been the non-public dwelling and showplace of Paul Bangay, Australia’s famend panorama designer, for almost twenty years.
His non-public sanctuary, the property is within the rolling foothills close to the pre-Gold Rush city of Kyneton in central Victoria. The metropolis of Melbourne, the state capital, is barely greater than an hour away.
The house’s nation gardens have been a spot for Bangay to experiment―a dwelling laboratory of kinds. They have been designed to operate as a number of separate rooms with landscaping to guard the areas from the wind. Every has a focus.
The method to the home show’s the designer’s penchant for symmetry.
The Tuscan-inspired residence, with interiors that Bangay curated, is entered by means of a sequence of those gardens. A courtyard off the motor court docket affords the primary glimpse of the home by means of a round window carved right into a hedge.
Flowering perennials, fountains and walkways fill the backyard pavilions, which proceed to the residence. There’s a white backyard that includes water lilies, a crimson rose backyard and woodland gardens.
Bangay’s penchant for geometric shapes is obvious within the tightly trimmed shrubbery, exact strains and blocky wall-like hedges. He describes his model as basic with a up to date edge, enduring but contemporary. Parterre terraces result in the entrance door.
As soon as contained in the four-bedroom, three-bathroom home, a hallway leads straight by means of to the again the place views take within the pool and valley on the opposite aspect. This yard shows his affinity for symmetry with mirror-like landscaping on both aspect of the lengthy pool.
The interiors really feel substantial with stone flooring, thick wood French door surrounds and chunky kitchen counter tops. A door hidden among the many darkish wood bookshelves beside the lounge fire results in the first suite.
A camouflaged door within the bookshelves leads from the lounge to the first suite.
Peacocks strut the expansive grounds the place Japanese crab apple timber bathe their blossoms. However the property is extra than simply its gardens and residential. Stonefields can be made up of pastureland the place cattle graze.
The grounds comprise a guesthouse and personal workplace as nicely.
Michael Gibson and Robert Fletcher of Personal Property World are the itemizing brokers for 20 Belty Drive, Denver, Victoria, Australia. The asking value is AUD 8.4 million or about US $5.46 million.
Views from the again of the home take within the pool and the valley past.
consumers have till Nov. 29 to make a suggestion.
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