Finishing Touches Needed On Renovated Bungalow
The Age
Wednesday January 22, 1997
ORMOND, $200,000-plus
52 Malane Street, Ormond. Timber: five rooms. Land: 15.24 by 45.73 metres. Auction: 1.30 pm Sunday 9 February by Hocking Stuart (9557 7733).
"The property has a wealth of period detailing," -- Nick Renna, Hocking Stuart.
Best feature: Spacious, open-plan, family-room extension with jarrah floor.
THERE'S some unfinished business in this partly renovated and extended Californian bungalow in one of Ormond's most convenient, tree-lined streets.
The present owners are moving on without completing the upstairs addition made to accommodate a main bedroom and a parents' retreat. Downstairs, there are small painting and plastering jobs to be completed.
The big jobs, however, are done. The house has recently been restumped, rewired and replumbed. It has ducted gas heating.
New owners may enjoy bringing to fruition the design of the room upstairs which is on two levels under a steeply arched roof. The raised area would lend itself to use as a study.
The front of the old house retains its period look with tapered, rough-rendered pillars under the front veranda.
The lounge room left of the front entrance has a corner fireplace with dark timber surrounds. There is a small ceiling rose and deep, ornate cornices.
The front bedroom right of the entrance has polished baltic pine floorboards and is decorated in pale green and cream. Another bedroom is behind this one.
The central bathroom is decorated with black and white tiles.
Saving the best till last, the back of the house is straddled by the open plan kitchen and family room. There are cork tiles in the kitchen area and a huge expanse of jarrah flooring in the family room and meals area.
The kitchen, bright from a skylight positioned above the stove, has black laminated benches and feature tiles in the splashback. There is an AEG oven, Rosieres stove top, a Smeg rangehood and a walk-in pantry.
Windows and glass doors open to the landscaped back yard with its curving brick paths and garden beds around a central lawn.
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