37 Kensington Drive, Peka Peka, Kapiti Coast, Wellington, 5391, New Zealand
What used to be a bare paddock on a 3000-year-old sand hill, handy to the beach, is now an encyclopaedic showcase of natives, exotics and fruit trees with home-and-income opportunities.
This phenomenally leafy and prolific refuge combines an architecturally designed two-bedroom, two-bathroom entertainers’ home with a delightful guesthouse and a versatile studio, where modern expressionist Peter Augustin has painted some of his most inspired works. His signature, and that of his partner, Peter Muller, extends to the Eden-like idyll they’ve created from nothing.
Planted for shelter and produce, it teems with 1.049ha* of figs, lemons, kiwifruit, pears, apples, prunes, plums, chestnuts, almonds, truffles, redwoods, Italian poplars, roses and olive trees.
A Roman gallery that links the house and guesthouse, with lovely flat lawn and surreal silk trees, completes this supremely picturesque and practical work of art.
