A Kiwi couple's dream home that won over audiences on the TV series Grand Designs NZ two years ago is for sale.
The stunning five bedroom home at 68 Molesworth Drive, in Mangawhai, known as the Jetty House, will be auctioned onsite on November 8.
Patty and Geoff Coley created a buzz in Mangawhai, and around the rest of New Zealand, when their efforts to build a house with recycled materials featured on the hit show.
Patty Coley told OneRoof that people still approach her to ask about the house or talk about the show when's out at the shops. Some even ask if they can look inside the house.
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“I’m very proud of this house, I think it’s pretty special,” she said, adding that the couple have decided to sell because she wants to do another project.
“It’s my fault, I want to do another project,” she said. “It won’t be as grand as this one though.”
Known as the Jetty House, the home, which has a 2017 CV of $1.93 million and is being marketed for sale by Remax agents Ben and Nola Kloppers and Charlotte Wilson, sits on an acre of land alongside the Mangawhai estuary and has its own jetty.
Patty and Geoff Coley created a house with recycled material. Photo / Supplied
It’s made up of four linked pavilions that look like boatsheds and are wrapped around a central courtyard. It was a deliberate decision to paint the exterior black, including the window frames. “We wanted it to blend in with the surroundings and not stick out,” Patty Coley said.
Fairly unassuming from the outside, the true magic of the home reveals itself when you walk in the front door. The style is coastal-meets-rustic-meets-industrial, and the home is the ultimate example of how to recycle a range of materials and give them a new lease of life.
The house fits in with landscape and offers stunning views. Photo / Supplied
Lovingly reused materials include 100-year-old bricks from Auckland’s Real Groovy store and the Albion Hotel in Gisborne, and reclaimed rimu from the original Whitcoulls store in Wellington.
The vanity in the master bathroom en suite was repurposed from a piece of steel furniture that came from a French factory, tapware throughout the house is made from recycled brass and copper and antique teak cupboards in the walk-in wardrobe and guest bedroom were brought over from Bali.
A shell chandelier from Hawaii hangs over a freestanding bathtub that sits on a timber platform in the master bedroom. Huge windows provide a fabulous outlook while you’re soaking in the tub.
The pieces de resistance are the huge wooden ceiling trusses in the main living area, made from ironbark hardwood that once supported the Ferry Wharf in Wellington and date back to 1890. The steel plates holding them together came from the inside of cyanide tanks in Waihi goldmines.
Patty Coley said she teamed up with Bay of Plenty demolition materials expert Mike Uttinger, who helped her to source many of the recycled items that have become the standout features of the home. Meanwhile treasures that she’d collected and stored for many years were finally able to be used.
Her goal was to create a home that was not only unique and beautifully crafted, but comfortable and relaxing.
“I really wanted it to feel homely; I didn’t want people to feel that they had to take their shoes off,” she said.
Several Grand Designs NZ homes have been put on the market since featuring on the show. One, a five bedroom house in Auckland's Helensville, was listed the day after its episode was aired.
