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Inspiration: The Walker House
Sydney

092908walker01.jpgWhile we love living small and plan to do so forever, but sometimes it is nice to daydream about living big. The hottest piece of real estate on the market at the moment is The Walker House, located about 30 minutes for Sydney. Its design was based on The Kaufmann House in Palm Springs which recently sold for US$16.84 million. Comparatively, the Walker House seems like a bargain with all offers over AU$10 million being considered.

 
 

092908walker02.jpgWith 5 split levels, 4 bedrooms, 5 bathrooms, cinema, a dual lane 20 metre vanishing edge lap pool,chefs kitchen, stone fireplace, professional gym, 3 car garage, 1 acre of gardens & lawn, championship lawn tennis court, double height ceilings, integrated audio visual & lighting and dozens more deluxe features. It starts to feel a bit exhausting just thinking about how much cleaning and maintenance would need to go into such a house!! While we’re even more convinced that living small is the lifestyle for us, it’s enjoyable to tour through this house. The use of textures, neutral colours, stone and glass makes for an elegant looking building and the views are just sensational. For us, seeing how a home of this size has been furnished is inspirational- it would be a big change in mindset after learning how to make the most of small spaces to then embrace a huge space.
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What about you? If you could live big would you? Or are you more comfortable living small?

For more infomation on The Walker House visit the website here.

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Comments (8)

Stunning. Absolutely stunning!

posted by littlebrownpen on September 29th 2008 at 5:45am
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Does anyone know who created the white painting on the last photo?

posted by walk0263 on September 29th 2008 at 5:55am
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So gorgeous!

posted by ridge_van_winkle on September 29th 2008 at 6:06am
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ooohh la la -- AT just made my day!

posted by modernmecca on September 29th 2008 at 6:48am
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just too much eye candy..dreammmmmm house

posted by LoriSF on September 29th 2008 at 7:42am
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simply stunning! Not just the house the locale are both spactacular!

posted by souk1501 on September 29th 2008 at 9:35am
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I'm sold.

posted by mspants on September 29th 2008 at 10:58am
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Stunning house and the website set up for it is amazing- they even have the floorplan!

With that said, AUD $10M (about $8.5USD) can get you a lot of house here in the states. Or whats better, a place in the states and a place(s) in Europe and the Caribbean!

posted by tallguylehigh on September 29th 2008 at 12:54pm
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