2 Selwyn Street

Paddington NSW 2021

The property fronts to beautiful Selwyn Street: a wide one-way street with large garden beds, majestic sprawling fig trees and ample, Resident Parking Scheme on-street parking, all tucked away in a quiet little residential oasis close to Oxford St (behind the Palace Verona cinema and adjacent to the UNSW Art & Design campus.)

Starting from the bottom floor up, the property has an impressively spacious, open-plan 'Basement Level'. There is a large Bathroom & concealed Laundry and a modern galley-style Kitchen & Dining area, which opens out directly to a deep courtyard, teeming with tropical greenery in established gardens. This feature, together with the property's privileged, direct First Floor aspect into the glorious fig tree canopy over Selwyn, make it an enviably private, peaceful refuge, albeit only a few steps away from all the action. One smitten previous resident dubbed it 'The Paddington Jungle Home', yet it is also ideally located just 100m or so from renowned watering holes such as The Unicorn Hotel, The Rose (ie. 'Arts Bar'), The Beacham and The Local Taphouse, with the outstanding Organic Bread Bar just around the corner, and the fresh & inviting Morris Caf right next door!

Next floor up (at footpath level) is the Entrance/ 'Ground Floor' Level, which boasts the light-filled, ingeniously conceived 'Third Bedroom' (installed 2011) and a glorious, open-plan living room- both blessed with generous 2.6mH ceilings- and then a large East-facing rear timber deck, where you can have breakfast in the morning sun, or just relax and chill in the afternoon N/E breeze.

Finally, the top or 'First Floor' Level comprises two large bedrooms: the Front Bedroom, which enjoys private access to the original front balcony (with its sublime leafy outlook and afternoon sunlight dappled through the fig canopy) and the larger, carpeted Rear Bedroom, which fills with bright morning sun (with the Roman blinds up) and is quite suitable for a couple and their furniture. Interposed between these two bedrooms is an ideally convenient and compact bathroom, with an excellent high-pressure shower and extensive vertical glass-shelving for storage.

The property has matt-polished Kauri pine or Cypress pine timber floors in both Front bedrooms (Ground+First Flrs) AND the extensive Living Room, whilst the Rear Bedroom is carpeted. ALL 3 BEDROOMS can accommodate Queen size beds and ALL 3 have large built-in wardrobes with full-length mirrors, being otherwise unfurnished. There is copious storage throughout, in all 3 bedrooms and the common areas. The property comes equipped with a Chef electric cooktop, grill+oven, Blanco 60cm stainless steel dishwasher and Rinnai gas convection heater (with air purifier) all included, with a large Fisher+Paykel 403L fridge-freezer AND Simpson 5kg S/S tub washing machine ALSO deployable if required. Internally, the house has just been freshly painted (mostly brilliant white) throughout.

The property is an easy walk to 3 major public transport corridors, the CBD, St.Vincent's Hospital, UNSW A&D (formerly COFA), National Art School, Palace Verona cinema, Chauvel Cinema, Moore Parks E+W, Kippax Lake, Fox Studios Entertainment Quarter, Centennial Park, the SCG, the future SFS Stadium and multiple bookshops, cafes, pubs, nightclubs, clothing boutiques & restaurants.

The ideal candidates I envisage for the property would be a cohesive, stable, responsibly adult, environmentally enlightened, readymade share household, comprising a 3 or 4 person family, a trio of good friends, two acquainted couples, a couple plus two single friends, or similar.

Features
Excellent central location
Private leafy courtyard, with established gardens and an ideal courtyard compost bin.
Front Balcony (First Floor) and Rear Deck (Ground Floor)
Modern galley-style, fully-equipped Kitchen w. copious storage
All 3 Bedrms have large built-in wardrobes w. full-length mirrors
All 3 Bedrms have either blinds, curtains or wooden shutters
Polished timber floors (both front bedrms) AND entire Living Room
TWO Bathrooms, both w showers; main w. full-length deep bath
Continuous flow gas hot water AND excellent water pressure
Kitchen & (as required) Laundry appliances all included
Unlimited (BigPond) NBN HFC Broadband internet INCLUDED; Digital TV antenna
Pets (eg. cat or small dog) welcome if well behaved!
NON-smoking please
Minimum 12 month lease term; Bond: 4 weeks rent
Rent: $ 1,060 pw, payable 2 wks in advance via Direct CR Arrangement
For more details and Viewing, please call (or SMS) Richard on my mobile, which RentBetter will happily SMS you- just call & enter Property ID 97297.