Discreet Nest in heart of Brisbane

A home called The Nest in Brisbane’s leafy inner-city suburb of Bardon is largely hidden from the rest of the city.

The Nest, a Shaun Lockyer-designed home, is on the market with a price guide above $7m

A home called The Nest in Brisbane’s leafy inner-city suburb of Bardon is largely hidden from the rest of the city.

Sitting on almost half a hectare on the edge of the Mt Coo-Tha forest, the Shaun Lockyer-designed home at 59 Nestor Street offers a sense of space, proximity and privacy.

The pallete of natural tones of sandblasted concrete walls, limestone floors and spotted gum timber is framed by floor to ceiling windows, with the design blending into the environment.

Both outward-facing walls in the living area can be pushed back to create a thoroughfare to the lawns that wrap the property and create a pavilion-style entertaining space. In Brisbane’s subtropical climate, this has the added benefit of capturing the breezes to help naturally cool the home through the hot summer months.

Apart from the home’s impressive scale, the 7km commute to the centre of the city has proved a major drawcard to prospective buyers through the first week of the campaign.

Heath Williams, of Place New Farm, is marketing the substantial property, with a price guide of more than $7m. The expression of interest campaign closes on ­November 29.

“If you want that size of land with an architecturally designed home in Brisbane, it is like hen’s teeth,” Mr Williams said.

The five-bedroom, four-bathroom home is split into three zones, including a parents’ retreat with views of the Brisbane skyline and a bedroom and bathroom wing with a separate games and entertainment room. An open-plan living area blends out to the covered alfresco and tennis court, pool and firepit.

It is a very different property to the one the present owners purchased in 2013. The serial property flippers demolished the 1970s cottage with a kidney shaped pool to make way for the ultra-modern design. The owners are hoping to move on to their next project.

Many homes within Brisbane’s prestigious inner-west are being upgraded and replaced with modern designs.

From the street, the modest Queenslander at 65 Arthur St, Red Hill, gives no indication of its modern fit-out.

Architect Nick Tyson was behind the 2017 renovation of the five-bedroom, three-bathroom home. Monochromatic colours are used throughout, including the matte black and stone custom kitchen, the textured grey wallpaper in the bedrooms and white, circular tiles in the bathrooms.

A private “secret garden” sits alongside the 10m lap pool and entertaining space to take advantage of the uniquely shaped 933sq m block of land.

Space Property agent Gabrielle Trickey expects the house to fetch between $2.5m and $3m.