Don’t compromise on the lifestyle and standard of finishing you love. Designed for year round living, there’s a heat pump and double glazed windows for winter and a sun soaked wrap around deck the long summer months. Step down from the entertaining area, complete with flush deck, to a level fully fenced lawn perfect for the children. A lower yard is home to chickens and offers a variety of options to look into.

Open plan living was a key aspect in the design with distinctive compressed bamboo flooring covering the living space. Pass drinks and food out onto the deck from the kitchen on those long summer afternoons, the definition of indoor/outdoor living. The windows all slide open to watch the kids play in the reserve next-door, or to hear the Tui’s singing in the native bush around you.

There’s a natural flow onto the bedrooms (two to three depending on the size of your humans). The bathroom is big and beautiful; with designer fittings, underfloor heating and the wall to floor tiles it has a warm modern industrial feel. Something special is the separate fully insulated timber office. It’s currently used for a home nail design business, but is easily reconfigured to a studio or sleep out. There’s off street parking for three cars.

Glen Eden has the train station. It’s close to Titirangi culture, and benefits from New Lynn’s shopping and transport hub. In the local shops there’s Clarks Organic Free Range Butcher; plus a couple of organic food/coffee that would feel home in Grey Lynn. With the investor adage “Move One Suburb Out” Glen Eden is primed for capital gains.

This is one you must put on your weekend open home list!