A site with views such as these necessitates a special house. Enter the GV Homes team, which has crafted a stylish three-bedroom home that drinks in harbour vistas from both indoors and out. In fact, within its twin-gabled forms connected by a low-pitched link, the handsome 189sqm home makes a point of framing the sea and mountains. A long open-plan living area with raked ceiling is anchored by the black kitchen and opens up to the covered deck to enjoy salt air and sunshine. When the owner, who spends stints working overseas, comes home to the house perched on the hill, it must seem like heaven. The kitchen is illuminated by skylights and high windows. Skylights also funnel natural light into the rest of the space, which has wide sliders that connect to the deck.

Step down from here and there’s a spa pool – yet another place to relax. Elegant design is evident everywhere. You’ll find it in the four bedrooms (or three and a media room) that line up, two on each side of the communal space. Each has views, and two have sliders that open to it. You’ll also see it in the two bathrooms, one an ensuite, in which smart black fixtures and fittings contrast with the neutral and white vanities. The house, in dark vertical cladding and grey corrugate, manages to speak the language of the land. But it also manages to be beachy, cosy and modern all at the same time, and that takes real skill.