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MEANDER is an anagram of emander and that’s what you’ll find yourself doing at this Emander Street, Dianella home with its many spacious rooms.

Massive double, timber doors opened to reveal a conundrum. Should I head up the pine stairs to what looked like a mezzanine–and perhaps bedrooms? Or into the colossal formal lounge/dining? Or perhaps what turned out to be the main bedroom?

After a bit of dithering it was the bedroom first, a huge space, with a bay window to the street, and ensuite and a generous walk-in robe.

Not wanting to backtrack, the upper level was next, where I discovered not bedrooms, but a massive open room that could be a study, games room, home office or a third lounge/sitting room.

There was also a second room that could easily become a bedroom, making this space ideal for a parents’ retreat–or a teenage pad.

The formal lounge/dining is a sweeping space with two lots of bay windows, one overlooking the pool, the other the garden.

Bay windows feature throughout the home, including a huge window seat version in the massive informal, living/dining/kitchen.

The kitchen is a huge space, which is showing its age, but with some fairly cosmetic work to the plentitude of cupboards, and double pantry and the sweep of bench tops it would look a million dollars.

(I’d be getting rid of the central island and stove, with its copper exhaust, to really open up what is a considerable space).

Banks of windows and doors in the open-plan look out onto the alfresco area and salt-water pool, where garden beds frame views across to Emander Park over the road–a delightful tree-filled slice of greenery.

Set on 719sqm, there’s plenty of room to meander in a garden that is well established but could do with a bit of TLC to really brighten it up.

This is a huge, rock-solid family home, in need of a family.

It’s close to schools, public transport, shopping centre and ovals, and a mere 8km from the Perth CBD.

Looking for space? Look no further.

by JENNY D’ANGER

40 Emander Drive, Dianella
auction Sunday Nov 22, 1.30pm
Mervyn Missell 0404 889 325
Acton Mt Lawley 9272 2488
open Sat Nov 14, 2–3pm