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authentic.beauty

#soldbyholly $2,450,000

A social domain of significant volume and light, interacts beautifully with landscaped gardens, swimming pool, while a combo of precious and private spaces fosters thoughtful solitude and family communion. There is love here, poured into the precision craftsmanship, the painstaking re-build and repair, everything tweaked and perfected, creating an aesthetic vision, a blend of old and new.

Gina Carmody loves to weave a story of home, steeped in history and detail, rooted in the nurture of family and community. An award winning designer of houses, Gina is very much in sync with re-imagining, preserving, whispering new life into heritage homes. And it is no different with her own, beloved Oliphant original, with its classic front porch, ethereal gardens. As we tour the grounds, Gina calls the oldest members, "Glady's trees" in homage to the original owner who planted the mix of apple and fig trees, almost a century ago.

Lovingly restored and extended, the home is enchanting with its circular drive and dreamland of neatly clipped box hedging, sea of agapanth ...