North Fremantle – Bold, Bespoke & Balanced
25 Rule Street, North Fremantle
Positioned perfectly at the highest point in North Fremantle, this award-winning architecturally designed home by Blane Brackenridge represents timeless modernism, takes full advantage of its strong site characteristics and ever-changing outlook.
As you wander through this exceptional home, you are continually surprised by the small and large features, design elements and bespoke selections that are revealed.
This classic creation allows spaces to flow and evolve around your family. The entertaining possibilities are endless over three and a half floors. From a simple BBQ, to an intimate dinner party or wine tasting in the cellar. Enjoy special kid’s celebrations and gathering around the pool. Alternately, make the most of a long lunch that rolls into sunset cocktails while soaking up uninterrupted 360-degree views from the rooftop.
The combination of possibilities, opportunities and an impeccable style of living is seldom offered and rarely found here in Perth.
From every angle on this corner block, this home shares its aesthetic sensibility and building credentials. Masterful in design and engineering the curvilinear concrete canopy flows from the front entrance to the third floor. The concrete form, 7m stone curved wall and established native garden combine to create a remarkable street synergy.
Upon entering the seamless wooden doors, the sheer grandeur of soaring ceilings, sleek lines, light reveals and curves all combined ignite one’s imagination and sets the tone for every visitor. On this floor experience the kid’s zone, living, outdoors, laundry and powder room.
The casual living shares a library-sized bookcase, kitchenette with a wrap-around oversized balcony, floating cube pool and garden. These spaces are incredibly versatile. Your kids have the whole floor to play inside and out. Over time let it transition into their teenage headquarters.
Both bedrooms feature custom built desks and wardrobes. One room enjoys a private garden in front of the stone wall. They share a strikingly beautiful ensuite with an elongated window and the marble feature wall is mesmerising. In addition, a power room and laundry occupy this floor and the oversized pivotal door ensures the kid’s rooms are uninterrupted.
Downstairs from here is a double garage and an impressive subterranean grotto that doubles as a cellar and bar. This area pays homage to the original home footings and 30sqm of caprock is similar to a beachside reef.
The travertine stairs, elevated void and natural palette, join in your journey upstairs into the breathtaking hub of the home. A bright blue ocean awaits and immediately transports you to a magical beach-side destination. Daily stresses are alleviated while in this space.
The open kitchen, dining and living areas transition to the wrap around balcony that mirrors its counterpart below. It cantilevers over the sites slop to offer additional panoramic perspectives. These million-dollar aspects keep you company when cooking in your crafted kitchen of wood, marble and stone.
Throughout this central hub, you have floor heating, and all finishes have been hand-selected. A separate semi-circular balcony facing north is there to capture winter light, be a windbreak when dining or BBQing and ideal for establishing a herb garden.
A continuous wall of wood panelling, beside the kitchen, smartly conceals the entrance to the parent’s retreat, and reminiscent of a spy novel. You have a walk-in robe and, like downstairs, this ensuite reveals Italian finishes and fixtures. The floor to ceiling window captures light, and from the tub, you can view the stone walls private garden below.
Follow this light through to your arresting bedroom that reveals both morning and afternoon light. The dramatic eastern wall continues on one side with the Indian ocean to the other. Every morning step directly from the bedroom onto the balcony to receive todays weather forecast. There are built-in bedsides and a work nook for days when you want some peace from the office.
Guests will remember this iconic rooftop for its uniqueness and far-reaching vistas from the Swan River to the sea. Admire a myriad of colours from pastel dawns, blue skies to blazing dusks and everything in between. Beside the outdoor kitchen with BBQ there’s enough space for a long dining table, various couch zones, shower and of course enough room for a dance floor. Scattered landscaped pods enhance the richness that makes this place truly unforgettable!
Only when you experience this design legacy first-hand can you truly appreciate its enduring beauty, bold scope and scapes.
Call Vince Epps from Realmark Coastal. Tel 0407 774 009.
Auction December 8th, 2018
416 sqm block
3 bedrooms
2 bathrooms
1 powder room
Double garage
Rainwater tanks for garden
Awarded: The Royal Australian Institute of Architects WA for Single Residential Award
Materials include: concrete, Travertine, glass, marble, stone and wood
360-degree vistas from river to beach
Cube pool and established gardens
Grotto with cellar & bar
Location
North Fremantle Primary School
Buses and trains
Walk to river and beach
Ooh La La Coffee
Propeller
Bib & Tucker
Mrs Browns
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