51 Wilgah Street, St Kilda East, Vic 3183

Celebrating the elegance and grandeur of its circa-1930s origins, this lavishly proportioned six-bedroom family home has been custom renovated to inspire contemporary inter-generational family living and entertaining in a lush, landscaped garden setting, complemented with a solar-heated in-ground swimming pool, in a prized pocket of St Kilda East.

Privately set behind a high wall and automatic gate, a brick-paved forecourt offers secure off-street parking for four cars. An entry vestibule opens to reveal newly laid engineered timber flooring, freshly painted walls and soaring ceilings with ornate cornicing. The home’s double-brick construction and double-glazed windows add to the calming sanctuary-like atmosphere which is further enhanced by sheer curtains diffusing northerly light in the formal living and dining room with a Jetmaster wood fire heater. The main open plan living area looks out to the pool and garden with sliding and bi-fold glass doors providing indoor/outdoor connectivity to the undercover alfresco entertaining deck with three retractable blinds, heaters, lights, and sound. A trio of pendant lighting above a stone island bench defines the central gourmet kitchen fitted with a Bosh dishwasher, Smeg oven, and Franke gas cook top. Newly carpeted with pure wool loop pile, there are two bedrooms at the front, with new bay windows and built-in custom cupboards. The elegant master suite is also on the ground floor and has access to a courtyard, a walk-in-robe, and luxe ensuite with twin stone vanities, a built-in bath and walk-in dual head shower. Another downstairs bedroom (or home office) has access doors to the deck. City skyline glimpses and celebratory fireworks can be seen from the upper level where there is a retreat, a further two fitted bedrooms, with charming, angled ceilings illuminated with skylight windows, and a shower bathroom.

Additional features include ducted gas heating, zoned evaporative cooling, air-conditioning upstairs, retractable insect screens, a downstairs shower bathroom ideally position for poolside entertaining, a laundry/powder room, plumbed gas points for the barbecue, an irrigation system, sensor lighting, exterior lighting , a fire pit area, garden sheds, underhouse storage, and an underdeck water tank to top up the solar heated salt chlorinated swimming pool.

From this ideal lifestyle address, stroll to Alma Village, Chapel Street and Carlisle Street, and enjoy the wide-open green space of Alma Park. The home is also in walking distance to Balaclava or Windsor stations, and several tram routes for easy access to the CBD.  It’s just a few minutes to St. Kilda or Elwood beaches and is in the Windsor Primary and Elwood College school zones and is also central to a choice of elite private schools.