It’s a thing of beauty when someone just gets a home right. Destination, design, layout, liveability, and, for good measure, one of the best views around. 18 Cloverdale Avenue has got them all covered. And being here feels really good.
There’s a sense of what’s coming even from streetside at Number 18. It’s a sharp looking home – a Charlie Inglis design that sits easily on the high side of one of Toorak’s favoured leafy boulevards close to Royal South Yarra Tennis Club, the village and all that surrounds it.
Inside there’s an immediate Inglis signature moment – a spectacular circular stair that, like everything in this home, is a perfect blend of form and function. There’s a skylight above that looks great as you ascend it and turns on a delicious light-play right across the day.
The main living is up, via that gorgeous stair or a lift, because that’s where you get to see that view in all its glory – and it truly is one of Toorak’s best angles on CBD. Although, there’s some competition on where to look from the interiors as well. They are captivating, an exquisite balance of finish, fixture, and design finesse. A top-drawer gourmet kitchen, accompanied by a butler’s pantry that disappears at the slide of a doors when entertaining. Plus, a selection of spaces that respond to all the requirements of modern living and a super chic hidden bar, equipped for coffee or cocktails, that can be opened at the merest touch. Which is an ideal accompaniment to the sweeping front terrace with is stunning views, that would seem about the perfect place to start the day with a macchiato, or finish it, perhaps with a mojito.
There’s four great-sized ensuited bedrooms. The main is a true luxury retreat – the bathroom is divine; the dressing rooms are sublime. Supporting it all, the things that matter – a gold-class cinema, the finest technology, security, services, cellaring, storage, and expansive garaging, at ground level, plus additional space for toys or a gym or whatever its people require. Which is exactly what a home should be – and exactly what 18 Cloverdale Avenue has got just right.
