Contemporary Family Home with Resort-Style Backyard
Set on a generous 697sqm parcel in one of Southside's quieter, well-connected pockets, 28 Scenic Drive is the kind of home that takes a moment to fully land. Built in 2025 by AUSMAR, this is a home constructed with genuine care and an eye for detail. Near new, architecturally considered, and finished to a standard that needs nothing from its next owner except the decision to move in.
From the street, the home announces itself with quiet confidence. A sweeping pebblecrete driveway curves toward a double garage, framed by a lush, well-maintained lawn and a combination of face brick and James Hardie Primeline weatherboard cladding that gives the façade a clean, modern permanence. A Colorbond roof ties it all together, and the tree canopy behind the home hints at the seclusion and privacy that becomes far more apparent once you're inside. This is a street where people walk the footpaths in the mornings, wave as they pass and know their neighbours, that particular kind of neighbourhood that's genuinely hard to find.
Step through the front door and the home opens up immediately. The open-plan living, dining and kitchen zone is genuinely spacious, light-filled, fresh and thoughtfully proportioned to make everyday life feel easy rather than managed. Vinyl plank flooring runs through the main living areas, durable underfoot and warm on the eye, while plantation shutters dress the living room and master bedroom windows, adding a sophistication to the interior that lifts the whole home above its peers. A MyPlace smart home system manages the Daikin ducted air-conditioning throughout, giving every habitable room quiet, precise climate control at the touch of a screen, while also controlling the lighting and garage door for added convenience and seamless day-to-day living.
The kitchen sits at the heart of the home and has been designed to work hard without drawing attention to itself. Bosch appliances, including a multi-function oven and ceramic cooktop, are paired with a Haier dishwasher, a double bowl inset sink and an olive-toned subway tile splashback that grounds the palette beautifully. Pendant lights hang over the stone-look laminate benchtop, while a walk-in pantry adds valuable storage and everyday functionality. The layout opens naturally toward the dining and living zones so that whoever's cooking is never removed from the conversation. It's a kitchen built for real family life, not just for inspections.
Accommodation is generous and genuinely well planned. The master suite is positioned as a true retreat - carpeted underfoot with premium underlay, dressed in plantation shutters, and finished with a ceiling fan, a walk-in robe and a private ensuite featuring double vanities, a warm-toned tile splashback and a semi-frameless shower. Three additional bedrooms are well-sized, each served by the main bathroom, which offers a separate bath, shower and vanity, the kind of thoughtful separation that makes mornings manageable in a busy household.
Then there's the backyard, and this is where 28 Scenic Drive steps into a different conversation entirely.
What the current owners have created out here is remarkable. A 20-linear-metre pebblecrete pool with waterline tiles, colour-changing LED lighting and app-controlled sanitation anchors the space, sitting in full sun throughout the day and sheltered from the afternoon for comfortable swimming well into the evening. Glass pool fencing keeps the outlook clean and the views uninterrupted. Directly behind it, a sunken lounge firepit area finished in aggregate stone with festoon lighting strung overhead creates an atmosphere that photographs beautifully but genuinely needs to be experienced in person, the kind of outdoor space that makes you understand why someone built it exactly like that. An alfresco with ceiling fan sits between the home and the pool, providing covered shelter for year-round entertaining, while a herb garden adds a quiet practicality to what is already a compelling outdoor package. In the afternoons, a pleasant breeze moves through the yard and the treetop backdrop settles into the kind of soft, secluded view that makes this backyard feel removed from everything, while remaining five minutes from Southside shops and ten minutes to the other side of Gympie.
The sustainability credentials deserve equal attention. A 13.16kW solar system, comprising 25 AIKO Neostar panels backed by a 25-year product warranty and 30-year linear performance warranty, paired with a Fronius Primo 10kW inverter, has been returning quarterly electricity bills of around $300-$400 for the current owners, and that's with ducted air-conditioning running around the clock. The solar hot water timer further optimises the system's efficiency. This is a home built for Queensland life, where the sun is not just a lifestyle feature but a genuine financial asset.
Additional features across the home include LED tri-colour downlights, Dulux Wash & Wear interior paint in three coats, Gainsborough satin chrome door hardware throughout, R2.1 insulation to external walls, 60mm anticon insulation under the Colorbond roof, a steel frame and steel roof trusses, a 3x3m utility shed, and established lawns front and back, Sir Walter buffalo to the rear, couch to the front.
This is a home where the thinking has been done. The building is done. The yard is done. What remains is simply the life that gets lived in it.
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