The pool at 628-630 Park Rd, Park Orchards, is just one of many water features at the property.
A house in Melbourne’s northeast showcasing a Yarra River replica water feature, whiskey bar and panic room is streaming towards a $4.05m-$4.45m sale.
The four-bedroom home at 628-630 Park Rd, Park Orchards, also pays tribute to the history of its suburb and wider Melbourne.
Built with an emphasis on combining nature and architecture in a sustainable way, other impressive inclusions such as a wellness centre with a gym, sauna, ice bath and shower add serious wow factor.
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Abercrombys’ Simon Curtain said the owners consulted a yacht designer when planning their abode’s Yarra River-esque watercourse.
It involves two ponds with a waterfall and an underfloor creek which curves through the interior and out to the swimming pool, which represents Port Phillip Bay.
Mr Curtain described the water feature as a millimetre-by-millimetre reproduction of a nearby bend of the Yarra.
“It’s just so calming with the water trickling through and the plantings all around,” the agency partner added.
The property’s historic narrative begins when visitors see the driveway gate with a mural-like metallic artwork depicting the Yarra, orchards planted across local area in early 1900s and miners with pick axes, in a nod to Park Orchards’ goldmining past.
A Thanking Man-like sculpture perches on a rock.
There’s a waterfall in the garden that has been planted with native flora.
A wine room and a whiskey bar are both on offer.
Native trees are planted in the garden while timber battens on the house have been painted to
reflect colours seen in the Yarra Ranges’ forests.
A slab of rock has been transformed into an interior coffee table, with concrete and stone cladding mirroring the colours and feel of Melbourne’s CBD.
A steel- and powder-coated, Thinking Man-style sculpture sits upon a rock in the living area.
In the wellness retreat, concrete has been poured into a bronze vessel to create the ice bath.
Bedrooms have even been named after different Melbourne catchments or reservoirs, such as the Thomson Reservoir, Upper Yarra Reservoir and Maroondah Reservoir.
Get chilly in the ice bath, or dare we say: Ice, ice baby.
There was a focus sustainability and nature in the build.
The replica of a nearby Yarra River bend snakes its way through the house.
Mr Curtain said the whiskey bar had been designed to replicate those found in Melbourne’s city centre laneways.
“It is a one-off masterpiece, it’s really cool,” he said of the home.
“When you see it in person it’s very beautiful.”
Polished concrete floors and hardwood boards on wall coverings provide sound-absorbing and thermally-efficient finishes throughout.
A sunken lounge, family room, Gaggenau-equipped kitchen, three bathrooms, a dedicated library and retreat, wine room and a covered outdoor gas barbecue and bar fridge area provide plenty of room for entertaining.
“The house can accommodate an enormous amount of people, it’s a split-level design,” Mr Curtain said.
The steam rises and all the stress goes once you’re in the sauna.
The home gym is part of the wellness retreat.
He noted that the panic room “that’s hidden away in a border between two other rooms” has never been used by the owners.
Mt Curtain said the home’s build was completed roughly four years ago with the owners selling as they plan a move for work-related reasons.
Buyers who have inspected the residence include creatives, families and people thinking about using it as a work-from-home set-up.
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