Ask Wade Haldane, director of Clearbuild, about the two-year house project he embarked on with his developer client and designer Peixin Ye of P&B Architectural Studio and he'll be pretty clear. "Minimalism in construction means complex to construct, but with a strong sense of simplicity." He's so proud of the finished 505 sq m house in Dairy Flat that he's just making finishing touches to submit it to the Master Builders' Home of the Year judges.
The property at 26 Lynwood Grove Dairy Flat is being sold by tender closing June 8 by Sam Yeung and Karen Asquith of Bayleys.
The two-storey modernist home, one of the last to be built in the Goodland Country Estate community, used state of the art steel construction to cantilever one modern glass box over another. The same steelmaker, Black Steel Mobile, produced the steel spine of the finely crafted staircase, a feature of the double height open-plan living. Haldane says that the build took nearly 14 months, with a group of experienced tradesmen working to meticulous standards. The designer used fine carpentry details, like the slatted wood balustrade that wraps over the ceiling below and Timberlab stair treads, to create warm features in the white and polished concrete ground floor. Naturally the underpinnings of the house - a Maxraft super-insulated floor system, water-powered underfloor heating, three 22,000 litre water tanks, heat pumps and air conditioning - are as scrupulously detailed as the visible bit. The crisp exterior, a mix of schist stone, German aerated concrete cladding and commercial-level walls of glass is a standout in an area better known for its traditional house styling.
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The owner imported much of the electronics that control the smart home system and LED lighting himself, as well as specifying the ultra-modern kitchen and butler's pantry. There is even a media room with a starlight ceiling and Bose sound system.
The house wraps around a sleek swimming pool, with one end of the L-shape a ground floor pair of bedrooms and bathroom. Upstairs are three more bedrooms with the master opening to a rooftop garden.
The shared facilities of the estate, with managed farmland, a tennis court, playground, a community hall and a school bus stop at the entrance, are all designed to make this an easy family retreat from the city - without the work. "This would be a very good weekend or holiday house. If you lived here, you would never need to go to the Bay of Islands or Rotorua," says Bayleys agent Sam Yeung who is marketing the property. "But it's still only 10 minutes to the malls of Albany, so you get the best of both worlds. "It's a very high-end property, there is nothing else like this in Dairy Flat or Coatesville."
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