Forget everything you know about the family home.
Most houses make you choose. Space or privacy. Bush or convenience. This one calls the bluff.
4,440sqm of native Titirangi bush. Tūī at six, mist lifting off the valley at seven, not a car horn in earshot. Peter Norton drew the house into the landscape instead of onto it, and you feel it the moment you step inside.
Two lounges and a family room, so the movie marathon and the quiet glass of wine happen at the same time, in different postcodes of the same home. Five double bedrooms in separate wings, so teenagers get their own weather system and grandparents get their own peace. Four bathrooms, which does wonders for a Monday morning. A mezzanine study above it all, and a separate studio for when someone needs a door to close.
Then go outside, where it gets fun and exciting. A sun-soaked pool. A spa for the evening after. A gas fire deck that quietly cancels everyone's plans to leave. And an actual lookout tower, where you climb above the canopy and the whole valley opens beneath you like a secret someone finally decided to share.
Oversized garaging, a workshop and storage for everything a big, busy family collects. Titirangi village cafés, schools and the Waitākere trails are all close, and the city is there whenever you want it.
Homes that hold generations this comfortably, in a setting this private, don't come around often.
