Property Info
Samantha has direct access to the Portsea lagoon and wildlife reserve. Tucked away at the end of the Lagoon Court estate, Samantha provides a secluded country living experience with plenty of birds and other wild life for company. The Lagoon Court estate includes 5 properties serviced by a private road so there is no passing traffic – you can feel the serenity.
Architect designed and built in 2017, the home has accommodation for 14 with two master bedrooms each with ensuite, a double bedroom, twin bedroom and bunk room for 4 or 6 at a stretch.
The kitchen includes conventional and steam ovens with large fridge and freezer capacity. There are inside and outside dining tables for 10 with a stainless steel 4 burner BBQ built in just outside the kitchen area. The house was built for entertaining a large group with ease and style.
Open fireplaces are found in both the living area and outside on the expansive deck.
A large salt water chlorinated pool with spa sits within a timber deck in the middle of a native coastal garden. An Olympic sized in-ground trampoline is a favourite place for young or more adventurous guests.
If you’re coming in winter, in-floor heating provides a gentle warmth. Ceiling fans in the living areas and airconditioning in the bedrooms take care of excess heat in the summer.
The house has NBN connection with WiFi access available.
There’s parking for six vehicles on the property and further
parking available in the Lagoon Court estate.
It's a five minute walk to the Mornington Peninsula Coastal Park and the rugged surf beaches. Notes of a favourite walk are available.
Its about 15 minutes by foot to Portsea front beach and Port Philip Bay.
Samantha has everything you need for your escape.
The Backstory
Jim and Sam Woods are the owners of Samantha. It’s true that both Sam and the property are named after Jim’s first family home in the area. Having more than five decades of association with the area, the design and construction of Samantha was intensely personal. Pretty much every element of the property comes with some personal connection to Jim and Sam. It starts with the architect Ray Dinh who is the partner of Sam’s god-daughter. Samantha is Ray’s first significant commission and he’s done an outstanding job.
This is a social house, designed to catch the sun, open out to the garden, and bring people together.
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The building was constructed by local builder Mark Southwell who delivered on time and on budget. More importantly, Mark’s easy going style made the building experience entirely enjoyable for Jim and Sam. The landscaping and garden design was done by Fiona Brockhoff - again a friend of Jim and Sam’s. Fiona is well known as a leading designer of coastal gardens and her design for Samantha is representative of her thoughtful layout of mainly locally grown native plants. The garden is featured in the ABC television show "Dream Gardens".
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Fiona’s concept was implemented by her partner David Swann. An absolute perfectionist, David added his own touches with the recycled pier piles sourced from the old Hastings pier and provide points of visual interest in the garden. Many of the things inside the house and in the garden have a personal connection to Jim and Sam. The steel framed wire chairs on the deck and the iconic butterfly chairs around the property are more than fifty years old and were made by Jim’s dad’s furniture business - probably for the original Samantha property.
The timber coffee table in the living area was built by Jim and friends from blackwood timber sourced from the north-east corner of Tasmania. A very old school timber merchant harvested the timber, dried it for several years and then sailed it across Bass Strait in a traditional sailing vessel before offloading at the Apollo Bay wharf. The cray pots sitting on the deck don’t just look good. They are working pots built for use in Bass Strait and the west coast of Tasmania. If you can’t see them, they are probably out fishing.