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The Grace

73 Grace Road, Avenues

An exclusive, original quarter-acre site on Grace Road, a well-known, wide, leafy street in the city’s mid-Avenues. Convenience and community are truly taken for granted here, the harbour’s edge, major schooling, parks, and the CBD just moments away. Traffic noise gives way to bird song amidst the decades-old roadside planting and greenery of the neighbourhood.

Secluded by elevation and extensive planting, this character home has previously received a major renovation with architect Brendon Gordon, transforming the main living portion of the home into a timeless oasis, artfully blending an indoor-outdoor lifestyle for tropical resort-style living.

An uncommon opportunity to secure a centrally located property of both privacy and presence.  A house with heart and a section with scale, offering gracious living and considerable potential to the next family lucky enough to call it home.

Main Dwelling

  • 4

    BEDROOMS

  • 2.5

    BATHROOMS

  • 3

    LIVING AREAS

  • 1

    STUDY

  • 3

    CAR GARAGING

  • 279 + 57

    SQM FLOOR AREA

  • 1,280

    SQM LAND AREA

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A rare quarter-acre site on desirable Grace Road, held for over a decade and extensively renovated and landscaped by its current owners.

A wide, gently sloping driveway takes you up from the street to an arrivals parking area or through to the rear of the home to a hardscaped courtyard and a three-car garage.

A tall gate and beautifully landscaped arrivals garden deliver you to a covered entry and stately foyer, which connects through a threshold with built-in shelving, to the main living area.

A large-scale open plan includes the kitchen, dining and two massive loggias, one poolside, and one kitchen side with an outdoor fire. The living space is associated but well defined by its position off the dining area, its fireplace and surround sound system well suited to indoor gathering.

The modern kitchen is attractive and purposeful. It’s mirrored in size by its substantial adjacent plumbed scullery in one of the better family and entertaining arrangements we have seen.

Off this open plan area, a short step down creates a cosy separate family room space, ideal for young children, teens, media, or quiet time.

Well located off the scullery is a large storage area and connection to a powder room, spacious laundry, linen cupboard, and main bathroom.

Entry to the stairwell marks the end of the architectural renovation and leads into the accommodations portion of the home. On the ground floor are one bathroom and two generous bedrooms with walk-in wardrobe areas. A large additional room that connects directly to the driveway and has a corner cabinet and bench top, providing for a myriad of possible functions including accommodation, work from home space, hobby space, an additional living area or an additional bedroom.

Upstairs consists of a massive master bedroom with a partitioned dressing room, a private deck with ground access, and an associated study. An adjacent additional bedroom on this level lends itself to conversion to a luxurious ensuite and additional wardrobe space; there is great renovation potential here to create something special within the existing building envelope.

The separate three-car garaging has seen many uses beyond parking cars, and a separate pool pump house and potters’ shed provide lots of storage opportunities.

The pool area deserves considerable discussion. Heated by a warm water bore efficiently providing pool temperatures in the mid-to-high 20's Celsius, this vast 13 x 7m pool is a year-round luxury. The temperature and volume of the water take don’t require consent, and to further simplify the arrangement, this water directly fills the pool without the need for complicated heat exchange. The pool has been refinished (eco-FINISH) in 2016, and this year the bore pump equipment and pool pump and filtration equipment have been professionally renewed, giving the new owner many years of reliable service to come. The surrounding hardscaping and planting create a pool/outdoor living environment that’s unlikely to be bettered locally and will no doubt be the centre of family and social life.

On the road corner of the section, separated from the outdoor living area and pool by a poolside pergola and pump house, is the botanical heart of the property. An open-air and shade sail-covered space contains a nursery area, the bore head, raised veggie gardens and a compost bay, beautifully supporting any gardening enthusiast’s passion.

To top it all off, the iconic kiwi local dairy (as seen on TV) is just a few steps up the road and shares space on Fourteenth Avenue with one of the best Fish & Chippies in the city… everyone on Grace Road knows Eddie!

A Closer Look

  • Land Area:

    1,280 m2

    Main Dwelling:

    279m2 + garaging (57m2 approx.)

    • Four Bedrooms

    • Two Bathrooms

    • One Powder Room

    • Three Living

    • One Study

    • One Laundry

    • Three Car Garaging

  • Location: 73 Grace Road, Avenues

    Legal Description: Part Lot 6-7 DP 16447

    Certificate of Title:  SA 705/337

    Estate:  Freehold Estate

  • Territorial Authority: Tauranga City Council

    Zone: High Density Residential Zone

    Rating valuation: $2,150,000

    Rates: $7,365.30

    IFF Levy: $195.84

  • Fixed floor coverings

    Window dressings Including 6 electric blinds + remote (kitchen/dining)

    Light fittings

    F&P dish drawers (x2)

    Samsung double door plumbed fridge/freezer (ice dispenser non-functional)

    Bosch wall oven

    Bosch induction cooktop

    Blanco rangehood

    Insinkerator wastemaster

    Jetmaster wood burner fire (x2 living, loggia)

    Rheem electric hot water cylinder 180L (main bathroom cupboard)

    Panasonic on-wall heat pump (x2 master, studio)

    Panasonic underfloor ducted heat pump (kitchen, dining, living, family room, first floor hallway)

    Smoke alarms

    Heated towel rails (x2)

    Bathroom extractor fans (x1)

    Serene bathroom heater (lower bathroom)

    Bathroom heat lamp/extractor fan (main bathroom)

    Dominator auto garage door (x3) + remotes (x3) as is where is

    Built-in ceiling speakers (kitchen x2, loggias x4)

    Surround sound system with 6x ceiling + 2x Cambridge Audio subwoofer speakers (living)

    Sonos (x3 zones kitchen, poolside loggia, kitchen loggia)

    Denon AV receiver

    Apple TV + remote

    Sherwood amplifier

    D-Link matrix

    Edgerouter

    Alarm

    Unifi wifi boosters (x3)

    Fibre connection

    Beam central vac

    Pool and pool accessories

    Groundwater bore and accessories

    Pool pump house and potting shed

    Poolside pergola

    Nursery pergola

    Under-deck water storage tank + pressure pump

    Raised veggie garden bed (x3)

    Compost bay

    Wood shed + wood

    Outdoor shower (hot & cold)

    Hoselock on-wall hose reel

    Aqua on-wall hose reel

    Folding clothes line

    TV aerial

    12V LED pool garden lighting system

    Garden pots (x10)

    Garden troughs (x3)

  • 1948 BP. Erect Separate Garage. (Safe and Sanitary 2012)

    1974 BP. Install Sink and Dishwasher

    1981 BP. Add Games Room, Deck and Carport. (Safe and Sanitary 2012)

    • (new addition which is now master upstairs and studio downstairs)

    • Cladding in some areas is direct fix painted fibrous cement sheet

    1983 BP. Connect to Sewer

    1984 BP. Install Furnace

    1985 BP. Alter Dwelling Adding Ground Floor Bathroom and Toilet. (Safe and Sanitary 2012)

    • (addition of the lower bathroom)

     

    1988 BP. Install Swimming Pool. (Safe and Sanitary 2012)

    • 13m x 7m inground concrete pool

    • 2m deep end, 1.075m shallow end

    • Pool Fencing compliance Feb 26

    Pre 1993. Conversion of Garaging/Carports to Habitable Rooms. (Safe and Sanitary 2012)

    2000 BC. Install Inbuilt Solid Fuel Heater. CCC 2000

     

    2012 BC. Remove shed. Install Jetmaster Solid Fuel Heater in Lounge, Add Deck and Outdoor Jetmaster Woodfire, Reconfigure Ground Floor, Add to Alter Roof on First Floor and Partial Reclad of Dwelling with Brendon Gordon Architecture and Lifestyle Homes Ltd. CCC 2015

    • Treated timber framing

    • Notched and scribed weatherboard cladding on a 20mm cavity

    • Hardigroove soffits

    • Colorsteel Endura longrun roofing

    • Colorsteel flashings

    • Treated dressed pine fascias and bargeboards

    • Aluminium joinery double glazed

    • Plaster over 200 series concrete block fireplace

    • Earthwool insulation walls R2.2/roof R3.6

    • Eco-insulation floors R1.3

    • Vitex hardwood decking

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