One look at this picture-perfect freestanding weatherboard cottage and you know it's something special and it's not just the setting on one of Balmain's best streets that will grab your attention. Paying homage to its early 1900s heritage, a measured approach to the redesign of this peninsula beauty sees both the original features and contemporary additions celebrated with a pavilion-like layout creating separate social and bedroom zones. Saturated in light and air, the two-bedroom home blurs the lines between indoors and out with an internal deck at the heart of the home and sliding glass walls at the rear that embrace alfresco living. Capturing water glimpses from the front verandah and in the catchment for Birchgrove Public School, this timeless classic is footsteps to Elkington Park and the iconic Dawn Fraser Baths in one direction and Darling Stret in the other. DA approved plans by award-winning architecture studio Benn+Penna for a second storey are the icing on a very pretty cake (plans expire Jan 2025).