20 Grenville Road, Stoneville WA 6081

A cottage of quiet enchantment tucked into a sprawling garden - this is a home that invites you to step off the treadmill and into a slower, more considered rhythm. The house sits mid-block, half-hidden by greenery, reached via a brick-paved verandah that feels like a threshold between worlds.

3 bedrooms 1 bathroom
1986-built Hardi and iron
Slate floors, timber lining
Open plan kitchen/living
1st floor gable bedroom
Slow combustion fire
Powered Colorbond studio
2-car drive-through carport
2023 sqm high side street
Quintessential Hills living

Inside, the open-plan living and kitchen space is anchored by a slow combustion fire, the kind of detail that turns winter evenings into something worth looking forward to. The Jarrah kitchen - all timber and warmth - has just been fitted with a new electric oven. Slate floors, timber-lined walls, the honest materiality of Hardiplank and iron - everything here speaks to the landscape beyond the windows. It feels less like decoration and more like an extension of the bush itself. This is a house that feels loved and authentic from the moment you walk through the door. Stepping inside feels like putting on a favourite jumper. It doesn't demand perfection. Muddy boots after a walk, garden tools by the door, a bit of life tracked through the rooms - it all belongs here.

The floor plan is adaptable in ways that serve different priorities and needs with ease. A generous bedroom at the rear works just as well as a main bedroom or a second living zone, with corner windows opening to backyard views and direct access to the front verandah. Above, at the top of a spiral staircase, tucked under the steep pitch of the gable roof, is a first-floor bedroom that could serve a teen seeking independence, a guest who appreciates a bit of separation, or anyone needing a retreat from the everyday. A third bedroom opens off the central living zone. A timber-lined mudroom connects the kitchen to the backyard - the kind of transitional space every Hills home needs for muddy boots and garden tools.

The garden is where this property really declares itself. This isn't a landscape you maintain with a leaf blower and a strict watering schedule. It's a wilder, more layered thing - flowering shrubs, established shade trees, paths that wind and disappear, light that filters and shifts through the day. Children will find it irresistible. So will anyone who remembers what it's like to explore without a destination in mind. At the rear boundary, there's space for raised vegetable beds if you're inclined to grow your own.

Behind the drive-through carport sits a substantial Colorbond structure - powered, lined, with a deep south-facing deck under a pitched roof. Currently set up as a "man cave", this is the kind of flexible space that solves problems. A creative studio. A home gym. A yoga room. A place for a teenager who needs their own domain. A pair of extra-wide screened sliding doors and an overhead fan make it comfortable year-round. It's separated enough from the main house to feel like its own entity, which is exactly what makes it useful.

Stoneville sits where the Perth Hills shine - bushland within reach, but shops and schools are still accessible. Mundaring Village is roughly ten minutes away by car, Midland - with its shopping centres, train station, and services - is about twenty-five minutes. The Perth CBD is about 45 minutes away, depending on traffic. Perth Airport is a similar distance. Families will appreciate the excellent choice of nearby schools, with Mundaring Primary, Parkerville Primary, Steiner primary and secondary options, Eastern Hills Senior High School, Sacred Heart Primary, Mundaring Christian College and Helena College all just a short and convenient commute away.

This is a property for anyone who's been quietly harbouring a fantasy of Hills living but hasn't quite taken the leap. It's for people who want character over cookie-cutter, space over bland, and a home that encourages you to slow down and actually live in it. If you've been imagining a morning coffee on a shaded verandah, afternoons spent in the garden, evenings by the fire, this is the house that makes that possible.

To arrange an inspection of this property, call Brent Falkingham on 0407 564 677.