A hillside home with an elevated shipping container pool is set to make a splash at a huge auction event on the Sunshine Coast.
No.10 Orient Court at Buderim will be among the more than 80 residences on offer at the Coastal Living Auction Event, hosted by Ray White Buderim at Mercedes-Benz at Maroochydore on September 22.
The luxuriously finished, four-bedroom home – marketed by agents Zoe Byrne and Greg Ward – boasts incredible views and has been dubbed a masterpiece of design and engineering.
It is owned by Stu Faid and his wife Nat, who designed and built the house.
Nat, who works in architecture and design, said it was important for them to take advantage of such a desirable location.
“The heart of the house is undoubtedly the living area and expansive deck,” she said.
“At over 100sqm and elevated more than 6m above the ground, you literally feel like you are floating.
“We love how the views stretch all the way from the Glass House Mountains along the coastline to Mooloolaba.
“Across the ocean, you can even see the sandbanks on Moreton Island.
“When people arrive, the first thing they do is look up here (from the entrance to the deck).
“Everyone marvels at the suspended, 12m, heated ‘China Shipping’ container pool.”
Stu said they bought the property in 2021 knowing the existing house was too small for the family of four, but the location and view was irresistible.
“The pool was at first a product of practicality: we wanted to be able to watch the kids in the pool from the house but to do that required elevating the pool more than 6m off the ground,” he said.
“When we looked at the engineering and groundworks required to do that, it really conflicted with our minimal touch ethos in preserving the land around the house and of course the visual aesthetic of the finished design.
“What followed was a lot of searching for a solution, and as luck would have it, the answer was almost on our doorstep.”
Sunshine Coast business Shipping Container Pools’ solution, to convert shipping containers into pools, was a perfect fit for their challenge.
“Once we knew we would be doing a shipping container pool, we really wanted to lean into it and take the chance to incorporate more of our personal story into the build,” Stu said.
“Having moved internationally as a family a few times – we always used China Shipping containers when moving our life from one country to another – the opportunity to incorporate a nod to that chapter of our life into the build was too good to miss.
“It also unashamedly reinforces the origins of the pool construction, which ties into the rest of the design in the house.
“Throughout home we have embraced where the old meets the new – we have not tried to blend, cover or hide the origins of the home, we have chosen instead to make sure the evolution of the house is clear to see.”
The story of the couple’s well-travelled past is incorporated into the home from the point of entry.
On arrival, guests are given a glimpse into the souks of Dubai, where the owners lived for several years, discovering and bartering for the grand Middle Eastern entry doors that now stand as the gateway to the ascending path through the gardens and into the home itself.
“The Middle Eastern doors are another part of our travel story,” Nat said.
“We have collected lots of unique bits and pieces throughout our journey to the Sunshine Coast.
“These doors came with us from Dubai and were just waiting for an opportunity to become the perfect entrance statement.
“They really do that here, welcoming you into the house and setting the scene for the transition from entry to garden to home.”
Stu said everything was within reach at Buderim.
“It would be fair to say that apart from popping down the hill to go to the beach, we often go days without ever leaving the village,” he said.
“It really is a wonderful spot.”
Auction results
6 Whistler Street, Bli Bli
- Sold under the hammer for $940,000
- 4 Bed, 2 Bath, 4 Car, Pool
- Ray White (Bli Bli), Alex Dale
13 Dawes Drive, Buderim
- Under negotiation, contact agent
- 4 Bed, 2 Bath, 2 Car
- Define Property Agents, Ross Cattle and Katie Davies
1 Nabilla Street, Buddina
- Passed in, on the market for $1.45m
- 2 Bed, 1 Bath, 2 Car
- Define Property Agents, Jordan Barden
7/8-10 Yallanga Place, Mooloolaba
- Passed in, on the market for $715,000, contact agent
- 3 Bed, 2 Bath, 1 Car
- Define Property Agents, Ross Cattle
11 Kumbada Court, Minyama
- Sold under the hammer for $2.16m
- 4 Bed, 2 Bath, 2 Car
- Fletcher Riley, Alan Riley and Rebecca Fletcher
2/31 Neerim Drive, Mooloolaba
- Passed in, contact agent
- 4 Bed, 4 Bath, 2 Car, Pool
- Fletcher Riley, Alan Riley and Rebecca Fletcher
14 Lighthouse Circuit, Birtinya
- Passed in, now on the market for $1.625m
- 3 Bed, 2 Bath, 2 Car, Pool
- Ray White (Kawana), Dan McNamara
202/21 Kombi Street, Bokarina
- Passed in at $1.7m, contact agent
- 3 Bed, 2 Bath, 2 Car
- Ray White (Mooloolaba), Justin Wijaya
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