Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Ashmore riverside mansion a 'whopper'

Vanessa Jones   |  12:01am March 9, 2013

46 Reed Street at Ashmore is on the market for offers over $3.8 million. Pic: Supplied

JAMES and Sandra Vincent are used to building big, beautiful houses but when it came to their own Ashmore residence, they went one step further to create an "absolute whopper".

The couple, through their company J & S Vincent Building, have built mansions throughout the Gold Coast including some stunners in Sorrento's dress circle streets of Freyburg and Saywell, as well as Mackerel Court.

But this main river mansion, Testarossa, at 46 Reed St, Ashmore, and on the market for offers over $3.8 million, is definitely the standout.

The five-bedroom, five-bathroom house includes a pool, a boathouse, a billiards room, a wine cellar, a full-sized tennis court, a fireplace, a wet bar, a parents' retreat, an office, a library and a cinema.

The Vincents have had three weddings at the house plus held 50th, 21st and 18th birthdays there, catering to up to 100 people.

It has been home for about 10 years. They are downsizing and plan to build again.

"We build houses like this and we built this as an absolute whopper," Mrs Vincent said.

"But this house is ridiculously too big for just the two of us.

"It needs a family playing tennis and swimming in the pool and water skiing on the river."

Mrs Vincent meticulously designed the home before handing it over to a draftsman to draw up.

Her attention to detail was minute from matching the leaf on the grand staircase's wrought iron balustrade with that of the carpet in the study to painstakingly choosing paint colours for walls.

"That's the fun of designing something yourself -- getting all the little bits and pieces to match," she said. "I get a lot of my inspiration from Florida design magazines.

"The black and white theme of tiles at the pool and on the canvas awnings were taken from the black and white stripes of 1930s Hollywood.

"I like to have a bit of whimsy in a house."


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