A Look inside a Lovely Ponsonby Villa

Firstly, if you are having problems viewing my site today in that my Blog Heading has disappeared and side bar icons or photos are missing, there appears to unfortunately be a problem with "Blogger", hopefully it will be sorted by tomorrow.  My apologies if you are not able to view all the photos at this current time.


Today was a busy day for me, rushing around picking up the bed linen from Wallace Cotton for next weeks bedroom makeover, shopping around for a few extras and visiting my mum in between.  My old French shutters went up on the wall the other day and look fabulous so I'm very excited about putting it all together to post next week.  Meanwhile I am giving you a peek at a lovely property in Ponsonby, Auckland.


42 John  Street Ponsonby is a gorgeous villa that's been updated for today's living. A traditional weatherboard veranda villa from the exterior but once inside, a clever open plan renovation  creating space for today's living. This lovely home has three bedrooms, one bathroom off street parking and a garage, which is a premium in Ponsonby.  Another bonus is the central heating installed, assuring you of a lovely dry winter.  I'm still not understanding of why we don't have central heating in New Zealand homes as they do in the UK, Europe and America.  This years winter seemed long, cold and wet so to be able to come home to a warm, dry house at the end of the day would be sheer bliss!

The property is for sale and will be auctioned on Wednesday 2nd November 2011.  Open home times are at the end of this post.  If you are overseas and you wish someone to view on your behalf please contact the Agent, Sue Hatton, whose details are also below.

 

Further details and more photos are available at Bayley's website. Click "here"

Sue can be contacted at the no's. below or alternatively there is an email link on the Bayley's website above.

This weeks open home times:

Sat 15 Oct 12:15 - 1:00p.m.

Sun 16 Oct 12:15 - 1:00p.m.

Sue Hatton

Mobile: 00 64 27 279 9696

Phone:  00  64 9 375 6830

French Country

This weeks specials from French Country Outlet Store

Some great bargains this week, the Roccoco mirror is only NZ$120

Rugby World Cup Fever - Opening Ceremony - Photos hot off the press!

Well... finally! its World Cup Fever here in Auckland, NZ and I have just this minute got home from watching part of the opening ceremony down on the Viaduct. Unfortunately I couldn't even get to the cloud unless I wanted to battle my way through hundreds of thousands of people including a large number of inebriated teenagers. Regardless a great atmosphere, an incredible number of people, literally hundreds of thousands, and well worth the experience.

It was the most beautiful sunny Spring day, every single restaurant, cafe and bar down town, was and still is, brimming with people enjoying the weather and this milestone event. I did manage a brief stop off at the new Art Gallery and took some photos of paintings I thought would suit the "All black" theme of this post.  Oops! got into trouble for taking a photo of the most exquisite painting of roses by Fatin Latour that had me mesmerised by his application of paint and the incredible light he achieved. This seemingly small painting truly had a "Wow" factor to it. I am sorry I cannot share it with you as unfortunately I had to delete my photograph  while the security man stood over me :(.

I then wandered down the Viaduct and waited for what seemed like "hours" for the wakas to move off, unfortunately the poor warriors had been sitting there even longer, shirtless and in the cold shadows of the Wharf. However, when they finally moved off, they gave a spectacular display and it was well worth the wait. I decided then it was time for me to head home, If I had been with friends I would have stayed longer, it was the sort of atmosphere you needed to share with others but Hugo was waiting at home for his dinner and I was getting hungry myself.

Hope you enjoy snippets of this event.

The fabulous Waka's (for those of you that do not live in NZ a Waka is a Maori Canoe.

unfortunately I couldn't get the complete canoe in my photo as there were too many heads in front of me, this is the best I could do.

These young girls were truly in the spirit and happy to pose for me.

As was this lady....

and these people, although I am still working out what the T shirts depict? 

Of course I have to include some art, so here is some black and white Art from two very well known New Zealand artists, I snapped (this time with permission) at the New Art Gallery today.

Colin McCahon - Are there not Twelve hours of daylight - 1970

Acrylic on canvas

Gordon Walters - Painting No1 - 1965, PVA on hardboard

Have a great weekend

Lee x

For Sale - This weeks property, another Herne Bay villa, 62 Wanganui Avenue, Herne Bay, Auckland, New Zealand

Update:  This property has since sold at Auction, Sunday 18th September, 2011 for NZ$1.365 Million.


This weeks feature property is an immaculate villa for sale with Bayleys.  The villa has three bedrooms, two bathrooms and is located in sought after Wanganui Avenue in the exclusive area of Herne Bay, Auckland, New Zealand.

The previous villa I featured in Herne Bay last week sold at auction for NZ$1.34Million, a clear indication that the Auckland market is still obtaining great prices.

Auction

Sunday 3pm 18 Sep 2011
On Site at 62 Wanganui Avenue
Herne Bay

Open homes

Sat 10 Sep 11:30 - 12:15p.m.

Sun 11 Sep 11:30 - 12:15p.m.

More photos and detailed information can be seen here

If you are overseas and wish someone to view on your behalf, please contact Andrea at the email below:

andrea.ritchie@bayleys.co.nz


Andrea also featured a "do up" property at 61 John Street, Ponsonby, Auckland, a similar style property to the one above but with capital gain to be had and a CV of NZ$660,000  please click "here" to view this property.