Perth Voice Interactive

HANSEL and Gretel’s gingerbread cottage comes to mind the minute you spy this Lindsay Street home, sitting prettily behind its white picket fence.

Lattice and a profusion of deep-pink bougainvillea divide the 1900s semi-detached from its neighbour, although they share a bullnosed verandah.

The story-book feel continues as you step inside to find a sweep of wide, aged-darkened jarrah floorboards in the lounge room.

Adding to the feel of a cottage in the woods there’s a timber ceiling, a fireplace and two cute slender sash windows.

Sleeping Beauty would love the gorgeous bedroom overhead, with its steeply sloping timber ceiling.

A massive wall of glass over the bed is reminiscent of a fairytale bower, with plenty of light and lovely roof and treetop views.

Tall double-timber doors lead to a spacious timber deck from which you get city views in one direction and a forest of green in the garden below in the other.

Back on the ground floor the lounge flows into a dining area and a spacious kitchen, with terracotta tiles underfoot and lime-washed walls.

Bifold windows in the dining area open onto to a pocket-sized atrium, ensuring plenty of light, and no doubt a pleasant outdoor ambience.

A skylight and more bifold doors to the garden and alfresco area mean the kitchen is also a light-filled space.

The seven dwarfs would appreciate the no-nonsense kitchen with its sweep of caesar stone benchtops and surprisingly large pantry.

The courtyard garden is a jungle of grape and passionfruit vines, a weeping mulberry, and overgrown garden beds just waiting for a green-thumbed owner to set it to rights.

This former workers’ cottage, on 161sqm, is just the shot for a young professional couple.

William Street and its plethora of eateries and shops is literally around the corner, and in the other direction there’s the Beaufort Hotel and a great little cafe.

And you can walk to the Hay Street mall in just 20 minutes.

by JENNY D’ANGER

81 Lindsay Street, Perth.
$650,000 to $680,000
Jen Jones
0415 662 622
Pam Herron
0413 610 660
Beaufort Realty
9227 0887