Designer Heidi Carter and Westpac banker Michael Correa have listed their dream home by the beach with Luxe Listings Sydney star Gavin Rubinstein.

Designer Heidi Carter and Westpac banker Michael Correa have listed their dream home by the beach with Luxe Listings Sydney star Gavin Rubinstein.

It’s not often you get the chance to own a home designed by one of Australia’s pre-eminent architects, Peter Muller.

Throw in enviable harbour views and an address just footsteps from Gibsons Beach Reserve and you’ve got the ultimate Eastern Suburbs dream home.

Built in 1969, at 39 Palmerston Street, Vaucluse, the four-bedroom, four-bathroom home with four-car garage was transformed by interior designers Handelsmann and Khaw in December of 2019.

No doubt there was considerable creative input by Carter, the brains and visionary behind label Paddo to Palmy, who has owned the home with her husband, Correa, since Rubinstein sold it to the pair in 2017.

It’s now listed with the TRG founder for a May 3 auction with a range of comparable sales listed as price guides, including 79 Fitzwilliam Rd for $17m; 17 Dumaresq Rd, Rose Bay for $17m and 8 The Crescent, Vaucluse for $21m.

“This is a one-of-a-kind home in terms of aesthetics and lifestyle — I doubt an opportunity like it will ever come up again,” Rubinstein said.

Homeowner makes $15m in two years

The updated period home is described as being “reminiscent of a luxury Mediterranean seaside hotel”.

There are multiple living and accommodation zones over three floors including a ground-level guest retreat or home office.

Across the entry level the spacious footprint features a grand lounge room framed by French doors opening to a wraparound terrace.

Similarly, the adjoining dining space spills on two sides to the terrace or a deep undercover deck with outdoor kitchen and barbecue.

These alfresco zones overlook the bay below, close enough to hear the waves.

A kitchen fit for its own ­Instagram feed, the gourmet space features a Lacanche double oven, Tunisian ­mosaic tiles and a butler’s pantry with second dishwasher.

The North African influences continue throughout with Moroccan zellige tiled walls in the bathrooms and terracotta bricks at the entrance.

Upstairs, and all three bedrooms have built-ins, while the main features a palatial dressing room plus a shower ensuite with dual vanities.

There’s a long list of designer finishes throughout, from the Otsumigaki hand-plastered walls to Italian Carrara marble and Aren Bianco limestone floors and European sisal carpets as well as heated towel rails, brass taps from English Tapware and a hand-carved Turkish marble basin in the powder room.

Additional features include ducted airconditioning, a Jetmaster fireplace, a cinema, solar power, geothermal heating, a gym and a pool overlooking the reserve.

Originally published as Designer Heidi Carter and Westpac banker Michael Correa list dream home by the beach in Vaucluse

This epic space home, built by an avid Trekkie who wanted to recreate that world all for himself, looks like it could be something out of the year 2265. Beam me up!

The cheapest house in Australia has just been sold after only two days. The catch — it’s two and a half hours from the nearest supermarket.

We all might be living a bit like this in the future but hopefully it won’t cost this much, as cool as it is.