IF red is the colour of passion and energy then this home in Bicton’s Malsbury Street is love central, with its bold fire-engine red front door and gorgeous red touches throughout.
A wander down the tree-lined laneway to this rear property is soothing to the ardour, with its tranquil pools of verdant shade, but climb the jarrah stairs to the timber-decked entry and things fire up, starting with the red door.
Blackbutt floors are honey-gold underfoot as you step up to the vast open-plan living/dining/kitchen where a huge, red glass splash back is a bold statement against crisp white walls and caesar stone bench tops, beautifully complemented with dove-grey drawers, cupboards and pantry.
Banks of doors/windows ensure this is a light-filled space, and look out onto a jungle of greenery — and a wrap-around timber deck.
The pool is edged in a swathe of emerald green lawn and back-dropped by a terracotta wall on one side, and another smothered in greenery. A couple of massive steel bollards, the sort used to tie up mighty ships, sits imposingly at either end of the pool, and can only have come from a port. Maybe Fremantle?
“There’s a mystery as to how they got them in,” the vendor’s son says, pointing out the couple of tonnes of steel each must weigh. Definitely a crane job, given the elevation of the pool and its surrounding garden.
The main bedroom is a spacious and elegant area, with rich-red carpet and white walls, and a huge window onto the heavily tree’d outdoors.
There’s no shortage of red hanging in the walk-in robe, attesting to the vendor’s love of the colour.
And the crisp white of the ensuite, with its double vanities, is offset by twin red drawers and a wall of red tiles in the shower.
A ground floor games room doubles as a bedroom, and with its own entry is just the shot for kids who won’t leave the nest. There’s also a cute self-contained studio, with its spacious timber deck, set in a semi-tropical garden, accessed via an alleyway between the house and the garage.
by JENNY D’ANGER
37B Malsbury Street, Bicton
price on application
Nicola Fleet | 0403 969 227
Yard Property East Fremantle
9339 3022
