50 Langridge St, Middle Park, comes with a very open floorplan – so much so, you can park your car in the living room.
A unique Middle Park warehouse is offering homebuyers the rare chance to park their car in their living room in a residence with virtually no walls.
Inspecting the $1.6m-$1.7m 50 Langridge St property, just five doors away from the beach, won’t take long.
From the garage you step straight into the open plan living and dining area set beneath the soaring ceiling and exposed beams of the New York-style loft’s former factory roof.
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The kitchen is built under a staircase and along with the downstairs bathroom can be shut off from the sprawling main hub for privacy.
But the single bedroom on a mezzanine level upstairs has just a balustrade between it and the living-zone-meets-carpark, though it does have a an ensuite box tucked off to the side for a bit of privacy where it counts.
Not too much privacy, mind you, there’s a void with another balustrade in there that has the laundry below it.
The house has a mezzanine bedroom above the living zone — but without a full wall between them.
The home has two ways in, a front door off to the side and the garage entrance.
Marshall White’s Oliver Bruce is handling the sale and said it had been very popular with buyers ranging from young professionals to those looking for a city base to complement an existing holiday home elsewhere.
“The online response and numbers through opens don’t surprise me,” Mr Bruce said.
“We new it was going to be a bit of a wildcard.
“And it has had some attention from overseas. We have had inquiries from people in London and New York.”
He added that most of the buyers he was dealing with would probably look to update the home and advance the floorplan from its current highly open-plan status.
The mezzanine level’s bedroom comes with an ensuite box to the side.
The kitchen is set beneath a staircase.
“What you might spend time on is wondering what you could do,” he said.
“There’s a lot of space to play with, with the volume of the height there from the ceilings. People are walking in and saying ‘what do I do here?’”
Possibilities include adding a bedroom upstairs, more dividers downstairs or even a glass cube for the garage so you can keep the car showroom vibe — though these would be subject to necessary approvals.
There’s a chance to get a pretty good idea of what is possible next door, where 36 Patterson St is also on the market as a more comprehensive renovation within the same former factory.
36 Patterson St, Middle Park, has been more comprehensively appointed and gives an idea of what could be done at the neighbouring home.
A series of rooms in the lower level of No. 36 include bedrooms with ensuites and a home office.
It too has the exposed red-brick walls and timber beams on show, but a more comprehensive floorspace between the levels means there are three bedrooms, two bathrooms, a laundry and garage on the ground level.
Upstairs the home is a sprawling open-plan living zone with a central staircase, as well as another set of stairs to take you up to a rooftop terrace with views to Melbourne’s CBD
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