This meticulously remodelled home features grand Florida-style architecture. The home is attractively positioned on a broad expanse of absolute riverfront, and is in one of the best streets on the Gold Coast.

Blending contemporary elegance with casual comfort, the home's open-plan, indoor-outdoor layout offers flexible lifestyles. The lounge and dining areas are serviced by a sensational kitchen with gas and electric cooking, quality appliances, Carrara marble tops and a scullery. The  terraces and leafy green pergola courtyards extend the home at the front for alfresco entertaining, and at the back by the riverfront lap pool.

Bursting with charisma and natural light, the four-bedroom home is accompanied by a separate self-contained cottage or fifth bedroom; ideal as guest lodge or theatre/games retreat for teenagers.

The grand master bedroom encompasses the entire upper level of the house, forming a sublime parents retreat with an opulent ensuite featuring an elegant stone bathtub overlooking the river, his and hers dressing rooms, champagne bar, and space to lounge inside and outside on the riverfront terrace.

All other bedrooms occupy a separate wing on the ground level, with luxury ensuites, a central bathroom, and lovely large laundry.

A fabulous triple garage with high domed coffer ceiling doubles as a great party room to host large gatherings and is fitted with the largest available triple size garage door to suit SUV and/or trailer boat. Additional parking is provided for two more cars behind remote-controlled cedar gates.

A fixed concrete jetty suitable for 60ft vessel with rockla spun concrete piles to tie bow and stern provides a most suitable option for main river mooring.

Notable features include charming French glass doors, high ceilings, custom chandelier lighting, showpiece wine cellar, winter white plush carpets, ebony oak timber flooring, Designer Guild wall paper, Calcutta marble tiles, delightful gardens and outdoor grounds with chunky black hardwood beams that make a striking contrast with the fresh white of the home.

Exclusive Paradise Waters is the closest residential waterfront estate to the beach and ocean, which are accissible both on foot and via the waterways.

While the home has huge lifestyle appeal, it is at the same time a peaceful family neighbourhood with leading schools, Surfers Paradise, Southport CBD, Main Beach shops, gardens, cycling tracks and transport links, all close by.

This property is for sale by Joseph Douglas Realty. 

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