Styled up with coastal cool, this beachside period home opens up behind a pretty fretworked facade to offer light-filled living and a fabulously flexible up to three bedroom floorplan.

Currently living a double life as family home and photographic studio, this versatile home features two separate wings of living cleverly linked by a central study. Beyond an entry of french doors, classic family living flows from a traditional lounge to an airy dining area to a bright and breezy modern kitchen.

In the homes second wing, an exciting open-plan space soars tall into a cathedral ceilings to include a raised dining platform and a mezzanine area accessing extended roof storage ideal as play-space, study or sleeping zone. Even the bathroom is a vast well-designed space with a separate shower, claw-foot bath and WC in a private bay.

Optioned up with reverse-cycle air-conditioning in addition to ducted heating, this clever beachside home even has adaptable and easy-to-love garden space with four car offstreet parking and a carefree fully-paved rear garden.... so you can work, play and enjoy life by the Bay!