79 Camelot Pl, Bridgeman Downs, has its own lake crowned with a wooden bridge.
Picture it. It’s a lazy Sunday morning on what is set to be another hot summer’s day. You’re stretched out by the pool catching up on the day’s news, when the sound of laughter draws your attention to the nearby lake. You see your children jump in a boat and row themselves across the water, setting off on their next big adventure.
It sounds like a memory formed on an unforgettable family holiday, right?
The house sits beside its own private lake in a tightly held street in Bridgeman Downs.
Yet for Mick Foley and his two daughters aged 13 and 12, it is a scene they could recreate every weekend.
The family have owned 79 Camelot Place, a sprawling house with six bedrooms in a tightly held street in Bridgeman Downs for the past four years.
The property stretches to more than two acres and is made up of the house, manicured gardens, trees and lawns, where Mr Foley, who owns two helicopter charter companies, among other businesses, is able to land his personal chopper.
The house has mulitple living spaces.
Helicopters aside, the property’s biggest attraction has to be its picturesque lake, crowned with an arched wooden footbridge.
Mr Foley said the family had spent a lot of time on the lake over the years and he would miss it greatly.
The kitchen is the heart of the home.
“It’s a very quiet spot, and there’s the fountain and lights on it at night, and the fire pit on the other side where I used to sit with the girls. It’s a special place,” Mr Foley.
While the sheer enormity of the house may appear overwhelming, Mr Foley said that once you start living in it, you grow into the space and the floor plan has allowed the home to retain a sense of cosiness.
There are plenty of places fro which to take in the lake views.
“When you walk into it, it feels like a normal home, which is what attracted me to it in the first place. It’s northeast facing, perfectly positioned on the block, it just ticked all the boxes for me.”
Three of the home’s six bedrooms reside on the upper level of the three-storey house, including the main which has an ensuite and walk-in robe. From this level you can capture stunning views of the lake.
The remaining three bedrooms can be found on the middle storey, where again, you are hit with lake views.
The bedrooms are generous in size.
All the living areas, including the chef’s kitchen with stone bench tops, which Mr Foley said was the heart of the home, are on the lower level.
An informal eating area and family room adjacent to the kitchen has floor to ceiling glass walls to maximise on the lake views and natural light. Both these areas open out to an outdoor entertaining pavilion and deck, framed with balustrading for lakeside dining and
The house has a cinema room.
entertaining. Descend a set of stairs and follow a meandering path to the infinity edge pool, set on the edge of the lake. There is also a free-standing pavilion, for hosting parties, family and friends.
Built in the late 1990s, the only thing that belies this home’s age is the terracotta tiling throughout, which Mr Foley admits to having become too busy to replace. Elsewhere, the house is timeless in its design and architecture.
The house suits alarge family who want room to move.
Unfortunately Mr Foley said that with the family’s schedule becoming far more busy, he felt the property wasn’t being used to its full potential and so made the difficult decision to
put it on the market.
“I think it suits a large family with early age kids that want the space, and I hope someone enjoys it as much as our family has. It really is a house in which memories can be made.”
And who doesn’t want that?
The property will be auctioned on Saturday, August 29 at 11am.
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