When you live in an innovative home with guest facilities; when you also have a barn with accommodation attached; and when all this is on 2.41 hectares in five paddocks and a boutique orchard, you have lifestyle options galore.

Wake up to the sun rising over Matakana Island and iconic Mount Maunganui. Look to the distant ocean and harbour across your rolling rural and orchard landscape, exhale and relax.

You can live in glorious isolation waking every morning to the sun rising over Matakana and Mauao and wander to the upper deck off your master bedroom to survey the distant sea, the greens of orchards and rolling hills. Then you can move downstairs to make breakfast in your comprehensive working kitchen, first opening up the doors to the rear deck and bi folds to the huge covered one on the north side. Make coffee in the funky second kitchen and take it outside for a quiet start to the day.

You could have paying guests or family staying below in the ground floor two bedroom accommodation and invite them up to join you, though they could cater for themselves in their kitchenette and enjoy it in their lounge or on their own peaceful patio beside the water feature.

You may then go for a wander around the estate stopping to say hello to the menagerie which grazes gentle hills divided by a wetland planted with Liquid Ambers, Swamp Cypress and flaxes.

Beside the paddocks and below your home your orchard flourishes on one hectare of contoured land. Thirty avocados include several varieties fruiting at different times. Then there are 32 lime trees, mixed citrus and stone fruit, all irrigated by the two 30,000 litre tanks that supply domestic needs as well.

The original barn on the property is the ideal place for workshop, artist's studio and or storing the boat. You can tenant the 76m2 modern barn apartment separated from the shed by two open bays. Imagine offering a country life in a two bedroom home with open plan living and its own courtyard. It is currently rented for $250 per week.

After a day spent pottering or productive your home welcomes you to entertain or hibernate. In summer it may be drinks (poured on the under lit marble bench top of your entertainment kitchen) and barbeque below the automatic louvre with the outdoor fireplace warming cooler nights. Winter evenings may see you curled up by the fire in the open lounge or in front of a movie in the fully sound proofed media room. You might even check the computer in the office.

However you choose to live on this versatile property you will continually be amazed at its practical environment with a myriad of features that demonstrate sustainable values and creative attention to detail.

And when you want to see the outside world, or to issue invitations, you live just 2.4kms off the State Highway, a few kms from Omokoroa beach and 17 from Tauranga!