Who wouldn’t want to go to A regional Victorian home with its own tram stop in the garden and a 50s-style diner is on track to be one of the state’s most unique spring property sales.
A pimped-out party tram, retired from the streets of Melbourne still has its original tintinnabulate and now comes with its own bar, TV and barbecue.
Frank Armeni and his wife Sue bought the 46 Ofarrell Court, Cambrian Hill, property well-nigh 10km from Ballarat in 2006 and Mr Armeni has built much of what stands there today himself, including digging out the pool which now has a water slide.
A family transforms a party trolley and 50s cafe into a unique home for sale.
The sprawling home and grounds at 46 Ofarrell Court, Cambrian Hill. The tram is built into the property. All aboard! They plane created an scene and stables for their twin daughters’ horse riding hobby.
“We owner built the house,” Mr Armeni said. “It was going to forfeit a lot to build it, so I said I’ll do it.”
The result is scrutinizingly 790sq m of interior space, a triple garage with two vehicle hoists and plane a couple of brick dog houses built from the same materials as the five-bedroom home for Ms Armeni’s Australian bulldogs Poppy and Diesel.
A friend got Mr Armeni the tram and the family trucked it to the property surpassing craning it onto a set of tram tracks they’d prepared for the carriage, and without kitting it out they’ve used it for a pearly few children’s birthday parties.
Take the slide into your pool. Plenty of room for activities in the pool room. The diner is full-on 50s style. “So it’s on its own tram line,” he said.
There’s moreover a pool room with an outback-style bar neighboring the property’s 50s-style diner. A few old Bedford trucks are found virtually the property in keeping with Mr Armeni’s love of older hot rod cars, and a group of enthusiasts will be stopping by the home later this month as part of an yearly event.
Ms Armeni said she loved everything well-nigh the home. The kitchen and dining space. Feel like stepping when in time in the library and study. The swish home cinema.
“But it’s just getting at a stage where the twin girls are gone and everything used to be used while they were here, but now a lot of it is just sitting there and I’d love a young family to come in and fathom it with younger kids.”
LJ Hooker’s John Camilleri is selling the home for the Armenis and said the $3.4m-$3.7m listing was “like nothing I’ve overly worked with before”. They bought the vacant land in 2006 and just went nuts with it,” Mr Camilleri said. If you had 100-150 guests there for a barbecue, you would be increasingly the fine.