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This beach house’s owners shopped for paint and requested the rainbow
By Emily Power
When shopping for house paint, the owners of this uniquely vivid beach home in New South Wales requested the rainbow.
The result could be Australia’s most out-there house – a flamboyant carnival of colour and fun, on the market by the water in Bermagui.
Each room in the elevated, three-bedroom 102 Lamont Street, which carries price hopes of $1.29 million, is a contrasting hue, and the selections are not shy.
Buyers on the deck are greeted by an orange and blue facade, pink guttering and red window trimming, adorned by paintings of a fruit bat and birds.
The front sitting room is lolly striped, with a coral room-dividing frame, a blue wall and various depths of green on the others.
The kitchen is musk pink, with a blue accent stripe.
The bathroom has rainbow shades of geometric shapes, against a sky-blue wall, a grapefruit-pink vanity bench and a jade sink.
A pergola out the back has been painted turquoise, above royal blue weatherboards, and window frames with a lick of neon pink.
“Enjoying views of river, mountain and ocean, surrounded by leafy gardens which provide privacy as well as fruit and vegetable produce, the house is colourfully decorated throughout to create a quirky seaside charm,” says the listing, on the books of agency Butterfield Property.
There is access to the house from a sealed lane at the rear, and a short walk across the road, through parklands, will land the buyer at the water’s edge.
The local country club, wharf and shops are close, but for an everyday harvest, the property has fruit trees and a vegetable garden, and eco-credential thanks to solar power.
Pricefinder data reveals the house was last traded for $405,000 in 2005.
Old listing photos, archived by Domain from campaigns 10 years ago, show it was always evocatively painted and presented.
The town is on the south coast of NSW, on the shores of Horseshoe Bay, about five hours south, by car, from Sydney.