A home with a design brief to have the feel of an ocean liner has hit the market

ALL aboard for your chance to buy a home which was designed to make the residents feel like they were cruising on board an ocean liner.

‘Ocean liner’ home on the market

SYDNEY may have its Opera House — but Perth has ‘the Cruise Liner’.

For the first time since it was built to order by the owners Celeste and Rob Baker, with architect Gary Banham, a landmark sculptural home with a nautical air has come on the market in beachside Swanbourne.

The home has been an impressive statement with its jaunty curving rooflines and unusual shape overlooking a blue expanse of ocean for years and was ahead of its time.

There are nautical touches throughout the home.

“Gary Banham’s brief was to create a home with the feeling of an ocean liner and a sea view from every room,” said inimitable agent Willie Porteous.

“So successful was the result that in some rooms you actually believe that you are on an ocean voyage.”

Designed to feel like residents are on a cruise liner the home points toward the ocean.

Mrs Baker said her husband had been adamant he wanted to live in a home overlooking Swanbourne beach.

“For my part, I had a fear of flying so we used to go on holidays on cruise ships — and I just loved it. So I wanted the home to have curves.

“I said to (architect) Gary if he could make a home that would give the permanent feeling on being on a cruise ship, it would be fantastic because we overlook the ocean.”

The home has just come on the market and is already attracting local and international interest.

“Over the years we have had people knock on the door and say ‘name your price’, we’ve had Arabs out the front filming and it’s very nice to think that people like your home,” Mrs Baker said.

Mr Porteous said the home was “iconic”.

“It’s also never to be repeated,” he said, with its three levels at a height now no longer possible, flexible floorplan and intriguing curves topped off by the master suite on the top storey.

The owners, who are downsizing, were keen to have everything shipshape. “I recall we were going around with a magnet making sure all the screws and things were stainless steel due to concerns about any potential corrosive impact from being at the beachfront,” said architect Mr Banham.

Open plan living areas and large windows to let the views and light in.

The challenging triangular block was the start of creating the couple’s dream home. “Everything they do is professional, from horse studs to the home,” Mr Banham said. “The house is a tribute to them.”

The home at 141 North St is for sale by expression of interest with Mr Porteous of William Porteous Properties International.

The Swanbourne home had a design brief for a real nautical feel.

Timber is used extensively throughout the home.

Sleek, curved lines were used in the design of the home to give it an ocean liner feel.