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The household house of acclaimed photographer Peter Dombrovskis is on the market. Image: Provided
There’s a probability that you’ve visited this Hobart oasis.
Particularly when you have a inexperienced thumb.
For a lot of a long time it was the house of the Dombrovskis household. And now and again, Peter and Liz would open their backyard to the general public.
In a 1993 interview with the Mercury, the internationally acclaimed photographer stated: “The backyard displays our persona as we’re each visible individuals involved with design. We’re involved with panorama values, scale, distance, proportion and form.
“Gardening that’s inventive and rewarding is an artwork.”
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No.761 Huon Rd, Fern Tree.
No.761 Huon Rd, Fern Tree.
No.761 Huon Rd, Fern Tree.
Peter’s daughter, Olivia Dombrovskis, advised the Mercury that the time was proper to checklist the household house on the market. Nevertheless, will probably be a tragic day when its subsequent chapter begins, she stated.
Mrs Dombrovskis stated her mother and father, Peter, and his first spouse Gabrielle, purchased the property in 1979.
She remembers it with fondness, a lush acreage to discover and play along with her siblings.
“Our house was an incredible place to discover. And we had been proper subsequent door to Mount Wellington, too,” she stated.
“It was a ravishing place to develop up.
“One in every of dad’s most important loves — alongside images — was gardening. He was all the time planting rhododendrons. They had been his favorite.
“He and Liz beloved gardening, it was one thing that they shared collectively.”
No.761 Huon Rd, Fern Tree.
No.761 Huon Rd, Fern Tree.
No.761 Huon Rd, Fern Tree was in-built 1916 as a mountain retreat set upon 1.18ha.
The gardens characteristic towering and uncommon gums, historic wisteria regarded as greater than a century outdated, vibrant rhododendrons, large man ferns, and at sure instances of yr, a magical scattering of crimson and white toadstools.
All through the grounds, lots of the sandstone steps and partitions had been crafted by Peter, utilizing reclaimed sandstone bricks that had been salvaged from close by Hobart houses that had been dismantled to make manner for brand new roads.
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Peter and Liz Dombrovskis of their backyard within the mid-Nineteen Nineties. Image: Mercury archive
Wealthy timbers and pure tones run all through the four-bedroom house, seamlessly bonding the interiors to the out of doors panorama, with massive home windows framing the picturesque surrounds from nearly each room.
The bottom flooring affords quite a few residing areas, with a beneficiant lounge and library with wooden heating, an atrium eating room that floods with gentle by way of intensive glazing, and an adjoining deck that makes the a lot of the spectacular outlook.
No.761 Huon Rd, Fern Tree.
No.761 Huon Rd, Fern Tree.
A second front room offers additional house to calm down, whereas a examine nook beneath the steps affords a non-public work-from-home space.
The big country-style kitchen is purposeful and welcoming, with slate flooring, intensive timber cabinetry, stainless-steel counter tops, a timber breakfast bar, and high quality home equipment.
Two loos service the house, one on every degree. Upstairs there’s a bathe, rest room and vainness, and there may be an over-bath bathe, vainness, rest room, and skylights downstairs.
Alongside the cosy wooden fireplace within the lounge, year-round consolation is enhanced by reverse-cycle airconditioning and underfloor heating.
Constructed of strong brick and well-insulated, the house retains heat.
No.761 Huon Rd, Fern Tree.
No.761 Huon Rd, Fern Tree.
Along with the sunny entertaining deck, a separate, personal gazebo, sheltered, and warmed by a wooden fireplace, offers the perfect house for internet hosting household and associates, or just having fun with the outside, surrounded by nature.
The intensive property additionally contains quite a few outbuildings for storage, together with a workshop and adjoining rooms with a mess of makes use of, inventive, sensible, or leisure.
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No.761 Huon Rd, Fern Tree.
No.761 Huon Rd, Fern Tree.
Mrs Dombrovskis stated a love of nature runs of their household, and that all of them love this property in their very own manner.
“Fern Tree is a particular place to reside. It’s directly in a bushland setting and just a few minutes from the centre of a capital metropolis,” she stated.
“It’s a stunning suburb. The scent of the air is so contemporary. It’s like a fragrance that mixes with the sounds of the black cockatoos and currawongs.
“In winter it’ll snow, and possibly choose the bottom a few instances a yr. It’s so picturesque when every thing is roofed in snow.
“And in summer time it comes alive. It’s a ravishing retreat.
“I feel this property is ideal for a household. Particularly for youngsters with the attic bedrooms and the gardens to play in.”
No.761 Huon Rd, Fern Tree is on the market with Peterswald. It’s priced at $1.45m-plus.
