A Secluded, Coastal Gem In Aireys Inlet Hits The Market

When Katina Astles and Simon Scoullar-Greig sought to have the ocean on their doorstep six years in the past, they turned to Arieys Inlet, taken by its secluded seashores and inventive neighborhood.

Throughout their seek for a house for his or her household of 5 they got here throughout a seashore shack tucked away off the Nice Ocean street towards Sunnymeade seashore. ‘Down a quiet road… nestled amongst a shocking native backyard was our dream dwelling,’ says Katina.

The shack had ‘seen higher days’ however due to Simon’s expertise in carpentry, the couple solely noticed alternative. ‘We had loads of concepts and Simon had the abilities to do nearly all of the renovation work himself’, Katina explains.

To be able to match 5 individuals comfortably within the two-bedroom dwelling, Katina and Simon turned to Scandinavian design for inspiration on maximising house.

They reconfigured the kitchen, residing, eating, lavatory and laundry and changed all of the doorways with custom-built sliding ones to create a extra ‘open’ feeling inside the house.

Decided to deliver it again to its former glory, additionally they stripped all of the paint and pulled up the Lino to disclose lovely timber beneath. Katina selected inexperienced mosaic tiles for the kitchen, lavatory and laundry to enrich their verdant environment and Simon constructed a brand new deck with an out of doors kitchen so the household may take pleasure in outside residing of their lovely location.

The ultimate items of the renovation have been designed to embrace the house’s beach-shack roots with handles and balustrades constructed from driftwood and the northern facet of the home clad in rusted corrugated iron upcycled from a neighborhood sheep farm.

Life of their cosy Aireys Inlet dwelling has been all the pieces they’d imagined it to be; strolling to the close by seashores for a morning swim or surf, studying on the deck, listening to the native birds within the bushes, however the household is now off to journey the world and ‘discover new surf breaks’, so that they’ve determined to place their beloved dwelling available on the market — with the hope that it will likely be the following proprietor’s dream dwelling too.

30 Aireys Avenue, Aireys Inlet, VIC 3231 is listed on the market with James Worssam and Liz Currie from Nice Ocean Highway Realestate.