Ridgley 7 Penima Road

Everyone says they want a shed. Then they buy in town with a single garage and spend the next four years apologising to a caravan.

7 Penima Road is the other decision.

Approximately 3,846 square metres of it, which is just under an acre, sitting at the edge of Ridgley with farmland over the fence and established natives doing the job a fence cannot. There is a rural outlook here because there is something rural to look at.

The shed is the headline act. Room for vehicles, machinery, tools, a hobby that has got away from you, or work that currently happens somewhere you pay rent for. Add the single garage and enough hard standing for the trailer, the caravan and whatever else is presently living at a storage yard on the monthly.

Inside, three bedrooms and two living areas, so the television and the homework can happen at a civilised distance from one another. Timber runs through the place and there is storage in the spots most houses forget about. Both bathrooms have been renovated recently, which is a sentence that saves you a winter of tile catalogues. The main one has a bath and a separate shower. The master has its own ensuite, so nobody is negotiating at seven in the morning.

Outside there is an undercover entertaining area, which on this coast is the difference between a barbecue and a barbecue that happens.

The owners will tell you the best of it is the outlook across the neighbouring farm, and they are right. They will also tell you they bought it for what it could become rather than what it already was. That is still the offer. A finished house is somebody else’s decisions.

Ridgley Primary is close. So is the general store, the service station and the sporting grounds, which is the difference between a town and a turn-off.

Sixteen minutes to Burnie. There are cities where that is the walk from the car park.