“Penthouse” gets used loosely in real estate, but 7/4 Small Street earns it honestly: top floor, a wrap-around balcony, and an ocean view that doesn’t need creative photography to sell itself. The building wears its colour scheme proudly from the street, too — a three-storey wash of pink that’s visible, we’d wager, from the water.
Inside, the decorating philosophy appears to have been one room, one colour, full commitment. The kitchen goes lime green, terracotta tile and all, with a brass-and-leather contraption on the wall that may or may not be a hat stand. One bedroom answers in hot pink, tartan carpet underfoot and a brass bed that’s seen some history. A second goes blue — ceiling only, mercifully — over wallpaper dense enough to make the bear-skin throw on the bed feel like the restrained choice in the room.
The dining room ties the whole place together, in the sense that it adds a fourth distinct pattern to the rotation: dense floral wallpaper, a ship under full sail in oils, a taxidermy eagle, and enough antique clocks that nobody in this apartment is ever uncertain of the time.
All of which sits above a genuinely sound apartment: three bedrooms, a double lock-up garage, solar panels, and a walk to the beach and cafes — plus the agent’s note about holiday-letting potential, for anyone thinking commercially rather than just covetously. We’re thinking covetously.
