13 Thornton Avenue, Surrey HillsVIC

Imbued with breathtaking period elegance and luxurious contemporary style, this Californian Bungalow delivers an extraordinary family lifestyle amid the best of old and new. Prestigiously positioned among leading private schools and zoned for Camberwell High and Canterbury Girls’ schools, the home sits within paces of Balwyn Shopping Centre’s mouth-watering cafés and restaurants, tempting boutiques, and city-bound trams, plus Maling Village, John August Reserve, and Chatham train station.

Welcomed by pristine gardens at a charming shingle-gabled façade, the home opens into an enchanting interior adorned in exquisite period detail. Decorative 10-foot ceilings are hung with elegant pendant lights, soaring above bold hardwood features and ornate leadlight windows. Bathed in the glow of a warm open fire, a generous lounge room is a refined setting to host family and friends, connecting to a formal dining room through sliding textured-glass doors.

Swathed in lustrous finishes of porcelain and stone, the sprawling extension is pampered in modern comfort and style, capturing a flood of natural light through a border of clerestory windows. The open plan layout provides expansive space to relax and dine, integrating with an enclosed alfresco area to entertain year-round beneath café heaters. The fully appointed kitchen easily caters with quality Miele appliances, while dressed in glass splashbacks, abundant gloss cabinetry, and stone benches including a study zone for home-based work or study.

Lavishly sized for private retreat, a luxurious master bedroom indulges parents with a walk-in robe, and a European ensuite with bidet, while by three robed secondary bedrooms are complemented by two fully tiled bathrooms. With split system air-conditioning to every room, the home is complete with a laundry, a workshop and a storeroom in a secure double garage, offering additional off-street parking via a long, gated driveway.