This large home has 7 bedrooms (we used one as an office) and 3 separate living areas, two bathrooms and one extra toilet, a large open kitchen, and extensive covered decks on two sides of the house. A single storey wing was built 22 years ago, with 4 - 5 bedrooms, bathroom and the main kitchen and livingroom. A 2 storey extension was added 5 years later and another livingroom, a large office/bedroom with views over the sea, and upstairs a private suite of livingroom with balcony, a large bedroom, bathroom and separate toilet, and an outside door to the garden. The floors throughout are polished cork or carpet.

The gazebo in the garden has french doors opening onto a deck and spectacular views north up the Coromandel Peninsula. The gazebo has power, a network cable, and outside running water. The house also has a small laundry by the back door and a back porch and another workroom with electricity, bench and running water. There is a separate double garage.

The house is energy efficient, light and airy in summer but warm in winter with a large, effective solar water heater on the roof, and a new air-source heat pump.