City Chic, Country Comfortable

This sunny north facing contemporary home has been designed with total consideration for modern family living requirements and the environment. With three or four bedrooms and one or two living areas this single level passive solar home enjoys all day sun, with a stunning open plan breezeway living flowing out to expansive double sided decking. The up to the minute kitchen with stainless steel bench tops, the latest of appliances and quick and easy access out to the organic vegetable patch and orchard provides the gourmet cook every opportunity to create or entertain to their hearts content. All the rooms in the home have wide doors opening out to the deck or garden making indoor outdoor living a pleasure. The bathrooms are generously proportioned with open 'wet room' style showers making bathing for the children or grandparents a breeze, an additional powder allows for guests. The garden extending to the Northern side is flat enough for a cricket pitch, tennis court or swimming pool. A small paddock below and to the side is sufficient to graze a pet lamb or pig. Out to the back there is a young orchard, kumara and potato pits the chicken run and firewood store. Complimenting the house is a two car garage with separate large office space and the battery bank and generator shed. Nestled on a near flat 2ha site in a sheltered private setting, the home enjoys pretty views out over the surrounding native bush clad hillsides, natural wetland areas and farmland beyond. So come and live the self sufficient lifestyle of our pioneering predecessors where the land provided food, pleasure and work. Yet in this generation you can still have all the modern conveniences of electricity and Internet at your finger tips and be only 15 minutes to Silverdale and 45 minutes to Auckland City. So call us now for your personal guided tour of this modern off grid eco-property to secure your own and your families' wellbeing leaving ultimate 'light footprint' on the environment behind you .\n\nClick here to view Karen Asquith's personal website\n\nClick here to view Graeme Mann's personal website\n\n\nMore about Makarau/Kaukapakapa -\nKaukapakapa is a town in the North Island of New Zealand. It is situated in the Rodney district and is around 50 kilometres northwest of Auckland. State Highway 16 passes through the town, connecting it to Helensville about 12 km to the south-west, and Araparera about 14 km to the north. The North Auckland Line also passes through Kaukapakapa. The Kaukapakapa River flows from the town to the Kaipara Harbour to the west. \nKaukapakapa is a Maori name meaning to swim with much splashing. The town is commonly known to the locals in its shortened form Kaukap.\nThe population of Kaukapakapa and the surrounding district was 2,979 in the 2006 Census, an increase of 711 from 2001. \n\n