Comprehensively renovated and extended with a meticulous eye for detail, this elegant home is rich in character, high on style and overflowing with family space. Framed by beautifully landscaped gardens, you are welcomed into a generous lounge room flooded in northerly light and warmed by a crackling open fire during the cooler months of the year. Make your way through to a spacious family room with stunning handcrafted pendant lights, a cosy gas log fire and seamless access to the balcony featuring a motorised awning. Enjoying sweeping elevated views to the Yarra Valley, you can watch hot air balloons float by as you have breakfast in the dining room. It’s complemented by a gourmet kitchen equipped with premium appliances, stone benches, an integrated fridge, freezer and dishwasher. The secluded master bedroom embraces garden vistas and features a walk-in robe and luxe ensuite. On the same level, it’s paired with two bright and airy robed bedrooms and a modern family bathroom. Head upstairs to find a ‘secret’ loft-style cubbyhouse/storeroom, a home office/retreat and a robed bedroom flooded in northerly light. Providing exceptional versatility, the lower level reveals a large, robed bedroom and a contemporary bathroom with an oversized rain shower and terrazzo tiling, plus, a huge teenager’s retreat or home office with clever built-in storage and access to the manicured backyard, covered alfresco zone and solar-heated pool with a cascading water feature. Finishing touches include ducted heating, refrigerated cooling, timber floors, double-glazed windows, storeroom, large under house storage area, Porcelume designer lighting, a veggie garden, storage shed, zoned watering system, and dual driveways leading to an oversized garage with workshop and off-street parking for up to 4 cars. This appealing home is located in a tightly held pocket that’s walking distance from Ivanhoe and Eaglemont Villages, railway station, bus services, Ivanhoe Grammar and local primary schools. It’s also minutes from major hospitals, medical centres, Warringal and Northland Shopping Centres, a variety of local parks, trails and recreational facilities.