216 Casuarina Drive<\/a>, Nightcliff, with 48.14m of coastal frontage and a pool.<\/p>\nThe home has four-bedrooms, two bathrooms, a mezzanine with library, a joyful colour scheme and an eclectic mix of furniture collected across the years, which will remain with the property. <\/p>\n
Steve Baddeley and his first wife Susan, who has sadly passed away, built the house and brought up four children in the home. <\/p>\n
Mr Baddeley said he wanted an expansive, solid home that made use of the environment and the beach across the road. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe build was meant to take six month but it took 13,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt was fantastic when we finally moved in. <\/p>\n
\u201cI must admit we have a very long room \u2013 it\u2019s the length of a cricket pitch \u2013 and walking back and forth to the kitchen from the bedroom when we first moved in, my wife and I got very sore feet.\u201d <\/p>\n
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The home is being sold with furniture included. Picture: Supplied<\/p>\n
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A cathedral-style living space runs almost the length of the house. Picture: Supplied<\/p>\n
In a recent interview, architect Steven Ehrlich said the challenge with the home was designing a tropical house using reinforced concrete. <\/p>\n
\u201cTo take advantage of the site and the breezes and being blockwork walls, we decided we would put a big veranda around the house to shade the walls and keep the sun off the walls,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n
\u201cAnd then essentially, what we\u2019ve done is ventilate the roof space, which you can see through the timber louvres in the walls and the ridge vent.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe eaves are actually open and when the sun heats up the air between the ceiling and the roof space, hot air rises and so it rises through the central roof vent and draws in cool air.\u201d <\/p>\n
The home has double doors opening into a formal entryway, which sits in a cathedral-style living space the runs the length of the home with exposed rafters, roof vent and timber louvres high up on the walls. <\/p>\n
Running off one end of this space is a kitchen, laundry, bathroom and dining room. <\/p>\n
At the other end of the home there are three bedrooms with built-in robes and a master suite with ensuite. <\/p>\n
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The mezzanine features a library. Picture: Supplied<\/p>\n
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Bold colours feature throughout the home. Picture: Supplied<\/p>\n
Above the bedrooms, a mezzanine level with full-height bookcases opens to a big balcony and views over the pool and the Nightcliff foreshore. <\/p>\n
The home has expansive verandas, landscaped tropical gardens, mature trees and plenty of lawns. <\/p>\n
Mr Baddeley said the home was once \u201cflesh-coloured\u201d by recently received a bright makeover. <\/p>\n
\u201cMy second wife, Dominique, and I were in Vietnam early last year,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe were in Hanoi and we saw an old French colonial building and it was painted this (golden) colour and I said that\u2019s the colour we need to pain home. <\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m a great believer in light and colour impacting your psyche. <\/p>\n
\u201cWhen we have breakfast sitting around the side of the house, it just changes our mood. <\/p>\n
\u201cYou look at the sun on the (house) colour and the greenery from the garden and it makes you happy.\u201d <\/p>\n
Mr Baddeley said developing the gardens had also been an \u201cact of love and interest\u201d. <\/p>\n
\u201cI built a thing called a \u2018folly\u2019,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a very English thing to have a folly, which is meant to look like a ruin. <\/p>\n
\u201cMine is probably the only purpose-built built ruin in Darwin.\u201d <\/p>\n
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The veranda wraps around the house. Picture: Supplied<\/p>\n
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The home exterior has been painted in \u2018Golden Orb\u2019. Picture: Supplied<\/p>\n
Mr Baddeley said some of his fondest memories in the Casuarina Drive home involved his family and entertaining. <\/p>\n
\u201cFor many years, starting in, I think, 2002, we\u2019ve had a lunch for all my friends here, about 40 of them on long trestle tables down the main room,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe also enjoy watching the storms and the clouds and the weather. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe watch the ships going out and the very occasional crocodile. <\/p>\n
\u201cOne episode I can remember clearly \u2013 a few years ago as the sun was setting a dolphin or a porpoise started to leap up in the air in the rays of the setting sun, and it did it over and over about 20 times.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mr Baddeley said he enjoyed having a front-row seat to the Nightcliff foreshore.<\/p>\n
\u201cPeople watching is one of the great pastimes we don\u2019t appreciate enough,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe sit out in the garden having breakfast and we look at the people walking and cycling past. <\/p>\n
\u201cPeople dance on the dance floor that used to belong to old hotel, people come have parties, people get married there, my own daughter got married across the road.\u201d<\/p>\n
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The garden even has a folly. Picture: Supplied<\/p>\n
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The pool is surrounded by leafy gardens. Picture: Supplied<\/p>\n
Mr Baddeley said though the time had come to say goodbye to his family home, he and his wife would miss it. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ll both miss the house, the garden, the space, the access to the sea, the cycle path and the whole ambience of this area,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt would be good for someone with children. <\/p>\n
\u201cI think it deserves children and someone who enjoys entertaining.\u201d <\/p>\n
PROPERTY DETAILS<\/p>\n
Address: 216 Casuarina Drive, Nightcliff<\/a><\/p>\nBedrooms: 4<\/p>\n
Bathrooms: 2<\/p>\n
Carparks: 4<\/p>\n
For sale: Via best offer closing 3pm, Aug 25<\/p>\n
Agents: Jacob McKenna, 0401 212 180, Manolis Hourdas, 0487 001 398, Real Estate Central<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The home at 216 Casuarina Drive, Nightcliff. Picture: Supplied A one-of-a-kind Darwin home facing the Nightcliff foreshore is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72408,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[449,458,459,64,63,460,134],"class_list":["post-72407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-design","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}