61 Pillans Road, Otumoetai, Tauranga & Surrounds

Strength of Character and Views in Pillans

The solid concrete block based stone 1980s family home in Tauranga's Pillans Point School zone exhibits the generous proportions and crafted features of the time. It exhibits enough upgrading to ensure it is still a great family home, with potential for more. It would be hard to overcapitalize in this location, especially on such a large section - 1210m2. The home is a spacious 250m2.\n\n The drive curves up to extensive parking outside an equally extensive double depth triple garage with storage and workshop spaces - a man's dream. The front door and the garage open to the home's lower foyer from where wide stairs lead up to the main home and to the views. The kitchen is contemporary but in keeping with the home, and occupies a large and sunny position where you have a nice corner bench for work space beside the butler's pantry or for leaning and gazing past Mauao, through the harbour entrance. The outlook is full of activity as it takes in the urban landscape to the port and Mount Maunganui beyond and includes plenty of harbour for watching yachts and the white glamour of the cruise ships throughout summer.\n\nThe dining area fronts the kitchen and has doors to verandah which wraps this part of the home and links a low half covered deck outside the lounge. This large living room caters for all seasons with a fireplace one end and the deck the other stepping down to flat fenced lawn above the retaining walls that line the drive. \n\nDecorative features like crafted cornices and scotia, paneled doors, and the rounded hall corners all date this home in the best possible way as a solid well built example of the era. There is a wall of storage cupboard along a hall along which are lined, a separate toilet, separate bathroom, and separate shower room - great for children who can occupy the two large double bedrooms, one of which shares the front deck with the master suite - which of course has its own bathroom with dual hand basins. You wake to the wide outlook and can step straight out to the deck to take in the morning scene. \n\nThis is not a property that shouts its appeal from the street, but one you need to visit to see its superior space and solid construction and the exceptionally large garage, plus experience the sunny aspect and views. You could not be more centrally located in Otumoetai - schooling handy, local shopping centres close and the CBD just a few minutes away. Appreciate all this and it will take great strength of character to resist it!\n\n