THE mother of all liquidambars towers over this Shannon Drive, Dianella home, casting welcome shade in summer and setting the street ablaze with colour in autumn.
Add a verdant lawn sloping down to the road, lush plantings and a swag of mature trees in gardens and on verges in every direction and you can imagine this three-bedroom home, sitting on 691sqm, is actually set in parkland.
Time has long gone when ‘60s Italian homes were looked down on, and a new generation has discovered they are good value on so many levels.
Built for the family to grow up in, this light-filled abode, with its high ceilings, was built to last.
Spacious rooms flow and there’s plenty of room for the extended family to gather, with sociable spaces to get together and places to get away on your own. You can feel the ghost of many a family celebration in the massive, recently renovated, kitchen/dining room.
I could almost hear the screen door slam as kids ran through to the garden to play and rellies wandered in and out carrying plates of food.
No doubt the women were in the kitchen putting final touches to the feast on the huge expanse of bench space–while the blokes headed to the covered patio to quaff beer and burn meat.
A faint whiff of barbecues past lingers in the air: and why wouldn’t you spend time out here, under the generous peaked roof of the huge alfresco area.
For the quiet times this is a delightful place to relax from the work-a-day trials, all the more so thanks to a lushly planted garden.
And when the kids are too boisterous, there’s plenty of lawn nearby where you can send them to play games.
Freshly painted crisp white walls and lovely golden bamboo flooring abound, leaving new owners nothing to do but move in.
Set on one of Dianella’s most sought-after streets, this lovely home is close to shops and transport and Dianella Heights primary school.
by JENNY D’ANGER
29 Shannon Drive, Dianella
$749,000
Mervyn Missell 0404 889 325
Acton Mt Lawley 9272 2488
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