GABRIEL POOLE BEACH HOUSE

This architecturally designed beach house is instantly recognisable as the work of the critically acclaimed, Gabriel Poole. His unique approach to architecture is about integrating the home into the surrounding environment and ensuring a light footprint. Here at Wavecrest Drive he designed a generational beach home that captures the essence of its seaside location.

Tucked away down a long driveway, nestled into the reserve, lies the private beach house seemingly floating in the air and set on a large 1080sqm allotment. The home captures stunning ocean views and fronts onto the greenery of the neighboring park and reserve with a nearby path to the beach in sight. This is your seaside escape where you can grab your swimsuit and head to the beach for a paddle or kitesurf and finish of your day with a walk on the dog-friendly beach of Castaways Beach, all only 200m away.

As you enter the home, an enclosed stairwell features a wall of angled glass to draw in light from the North to the main living area of the home. The open plan living, and dining area features a modern kitchen with stone benchtops and a wooden top breakfast bar all looking out the gas strut servery window which opens onto the covered entertaining deck. Classic Poole features include built in banquette daybed, timber ventilation panels, sash windows and fixed glass lining curved roofs which all frame the surrounding environs and ocean.

A highlight of the home is the overscale bathroom with a stunning stand-alone bath overlooking, through a picture window, the green vegetation. Through the bathing room you step out into the large timber slatted open air shower, perfect to wash off after a day at the beach. The main bedroom opens out onto a private balcony with beautiful sea views. Both the main and second bedrooms, set on the Eastern elevation, have floor-to-ceiling built-in cupboards.

This soulful coastal home lives and breathes the coastal lifestyle. This home is low maintenance making it the perfect lock-up and leave beach house, plus it possesses plenty of scope to expand if one desires.