The house owners of this Lenswood property say there’s nothing fairly like sitting on the deck at ‘golden hour’, taking within the sundown views throughout the apple orchard and the rolling Adelaide Hills.

‘It’s nation life at its greatest,’ Romany Mollison says. The panorama painter and her husband Tom have been dwelling in Sydney after they first got here throughout the sandstone cottage on the 16-acre property, which had remained within the authentic household as a business orchard for ‘a minimum of’ 100 years.

Inbuilt 1910, the two-bedroom dwelling was run down, however nonetheless lovely sufficient to encourage the couple’s transfer to South Australia in pursuit of a ‘slower tempo of life’. They bought the property as a ardour challenge, turning it right into a profitable Airbnb now generally known as ‘Ode to the Orchard’.

‘We recognised very early on that it’s a very particular place and it has been a six-year labour of affection for us to convey this crumbling cottage again to life,’ she provides.

With some sweat, tears, and assist from family and friends, Romany and Tom repainted, repointed the sandstone, put in a brand new lavatory, new wiring, plumbing, and new verandahs. The country interiors are wealthy with attraction, due to particulars like an 100-year-old wooden hearth range within the nation kitchen, timber furnishings, and the outside claw-foot tub.

‘We spent many completely satisfied weekends scouring the classic retailers and farm clearing gross sales for all of the treasured items which can be in line with such an outdated dwelling. They make this such a particular keep for our company,’ Romany provides.

They’ve additionally utterly redesigned the cottage backyard, that includes rhubarb, mint, and thyme, alongside rows of lavender, gravel paths and have planted greater than 100 established deciduous bushes across the property.

‘We have now wonderful 360-degree views, so whether or not you’re sitting by the hearth pit or one of many many garden areas, every has totally different points to take pleasure in nature at her greatest,’ Romany says. ‘We constructed a big deck that sits above the lavender and rosemary and appears out to the rolling hills. It’s such a implausible spot to chill out on the outside sofa or share an extended lunch with associates.’

Romany and Tom have since hosted a whole lot of company there and have obtained a whole lot of five-star opinions — making it one of many ‘most-loved’ properties on Airbnb!

The couple are promoting the house absolutely furnished, so it’s as much as the brand new consumers in the event that they wish to proceed working it as short-stay accomodation, or maybe hold it as a personal escape for themselves…

1551B Lobethal Highway, Lenswood, SA is for personal sale with Andrew Adcock, Nikki Seppelt and Jake Adcock from Addock Actual Property. Expressions of curiosity shut 11am December 5.