This Flemish-style villa, built in 1978, was expertly and completely renovated (roofs, floors, walls, windows, doors, insulation, glazing, appliances, utilities, heating circuit, alarm system) in 2011–2012 and 2017–2018, and further extended (architect: Bart Pycke) into a modern, comfortable villa with a generous living area spread over 2 floors. As part of the original residential subdivision on Sion Monastery Avenue, the property is perfectly laid out, with a street frontage of 80 m and a south-west orientation.
The entire house is surrounded by a beautiful, low-maintenance park garden with a selection of old and new trees, providing direct access to an adjoining private nature and walking area (woods and meadows) of 8 hectares within the private estate “de Oude Gracht” (366 ha in total), which also borders the public nature and walking domain “De Uitlegger” (400 ha).
The park garden, together with the adjoining nature areas, provides exceptional privacy, a uniquely quiet low-noise environment, a pleasant microclimate throughout all four seasons, and all this in the immediate vicinity—by car or bicycle—of all the care, school and shopping facilities that Brasschaat offers.
On the ground floor you will find a large entrance hall with natural stone, a wide oak staircase, cloakroom, a south-west-facing L-shaped living room with built-in fireplace and oak panelling, a dining room, and an office/library, all with oak parquet and views of the garden.
The fully fitted kitchen with gas stove on the ground floor is part of a recently added living space of 200 m2, which also includes a dining area and a spacious lounge with built-in cupboards, all with ceramic tile flooring and views of the garden. In addition, there is a guest toilet, a side corridor with entrance hall and cloakroom cupboards, an extra toilet and shower, a garage for two cars with built-in cupboards, and a fitted laundry room. The entire ground floor (except the entrance hall) has underfloor heating, and the entire newly added section has separate air conditioning on both floors.
On the first floor there is a wide hallway with the master bedroom on oak parquet flooring, with dressing room, separate air conditioning, built-in cupboards and a spacious bathroom with bath, shower and double washbasin. Three additional bedrooms all have oak parquet floors, built-in cupboards and en-suite bathrooms with ceramic floors. One of the bathrooms is also equipped as an additional laundry room on the first floor. An additional living area with parquet flooring, lounge, built-in fireplace and built-in cupboards means this part of the first floor can also be used as a separate guest apartment.
Three beautiful, spacious blue-stone terraces, one of which is covered and all accessible from the various living areas, overlook the park garden, which has an automated irrigation system with its own groundwater extraction.
Outside there are also 3 spacious parking spaces, a charging point for an electric car, a large greenhouse and 4 oak outbuildings, including a spacious terrace patio, a covered side entrance, and 2 large storage rooms.