You Wish: an elegant family home in Malvern

41 Horace Street, Malvern
$3.25 million-plus

A hallmark of a cleverly designed family house has to be the inclusion of a mud room.

Popular in the US, mud rooms – with storage for well-worn school shoes and bags – are newer to Australia, but 41 Horace Street has been built with a busy, growing brood in mind.

A family house it may be, but this new property is swish in every sense.

Malvern is a bastion of classic homes and the Horace Street house speaks to that tradition with a front sitting room, warmed by an open fire. The enormous space doubles as a study.

The four bedrooms splinter off a central rumpus room on the first floor. The main includes luxe walk-in wardrobes and an en suite, which are themselves the size of a bedroom.

Another bedroom has the luxury of an en suite – ideal for a privacy-conscious teenager.

The spacious floorplan includes a playroom, opposite the kitchen.

And when the kids are in bed, two wine fridges in the kitchen provide plenty of storage for the parents’ bottles of well-deserve plonk, in easy reach of the couch.

Kay & Burton’s Emma Bloom is looking after the campaign, by auction on August 13.