Twenty Hilltop Close sits right at the pinnacle of Bayview Heights, on a 2,526m² block with nothing above it, and the house that got built up there decided the only sensible response to a 360-degree view was a 360-degree floor plan. It’s circular. All of it. The upper level wraps a full loop of glass and wraparound veranda, the ground floor is ringed with round porthole windows, and somewhere in the design brief someone clearly decided that corners were the enemy and won that argument comprehensively.
Walk in and the entry does the explaining for you: a helical floating ramp winds up around a floor-to-ceiling column wrapped entirely in mirrored mosaic tile, timber slats lining the curved walls like the inside of a very expensive barrel. It’s less a staircase, more a ramp you’d expect to see roller skaters gliding down in a very specific kind of 1980s fever dream, complete with a disco-ball centrepiece that does the job of about four separate light fixtures at once. Reach the upper landing and the whole thing repeats itself in silver birch wallpaper, six identical timber doors set into the curve, and views stacking mountains, Green Island and the Coral Sea into every available window.
The rest of the upper level plays it relatively straight by comparison — a curved timber kitchen with knockout mountain views, a sweeping open living room under a sculptural chandelier, bedrooms with their own curved balconies over the rainforest canopy. Downstairs is where the personality really lets loose again: mint-and-cream retro decor, a pool room complete with an unbothered gambling-kangaroos tapestry, and those same round portal windows, each one somehow containing a second, square window mounted inside it — a design choice we genuinely cannot explain and would very much like someone to.
Four bedrooms, three bathrooms, a retro bar, room for a pool, a boat or a caravan on the block, and a listing description that undersells it by calling it merely ‘rare.’ This is a full, unfiltered showcase of 1980s architectural confidence, round and remarkable and not showing up again anytime soon. Throw in a DJ and a decent sound system and honestly, the house has already done the rest of the work for you.
