Property of the week: a gorgeous former sawmill in central Lisbon

This week's proprty is a fantastic detached house in the heart of Lisbon. If you are looking for a city lifestyle in the sunshine in Portugal, it would be hard to do better than this magnificent property. With all of the amenities that Lisbon's city centre has to offer, including the Amoreiras shopping centre within a five minute walk. The Tagus estuary and sea are also within walking distance, and even the famous Torre de Belem is under 10 minutes away by car. 

Despite the central location, you wouldn't realise that you were in the middle of the country's capital in this peaceful, spacious home. With 396m2 of built space, spread over three floors, the expansive, open-plan, loft style property is like an oasis of calm in the bustling city. The property offers five large bedrooms, one of which is currently set up as a walk-in wardrobe, and five bathrooms, as well as plenty of private outdoor space for any family.

The home's heated swimming pool idealista

The main living space of the property occupies the entire first floor, except for a guest bathroom. There is a spacious and comfortable living area, with plenty of shelving and storage and even a gorgeous wood burning stove. This is where the "loft-style" is truly on show in this former sawmill, with exposed brick walls, wooden beams in the ceiling, enormous glass doors and windows framed in wrought-iron, with further stainless steel details around the structure. The 58 square metres on this floor also include a lovely dining area and a fully equipped open-concept kitchen, all under a high ceiling that feels incredibly spacious. The living area gives out onto a covered terrace with a heated swimming pool.

Most of the bedrooms are on the ground floor, as you walk in, off from the entrance hall, along with a laundry room and two patios that the bedrooms all have access to. The master suite however is on the second floor, above the living area, offering totaal privacy for the proprty's owners. This room, like three of the downstairs rooms, includes an en-suite bathroom, and as the master suite, it also has a walk-in closet, and its own private patio. On top of all this, the property offers a custom Bang & Olufsen surround sound system, electric blackout curtains, central air-conditioning and heating via air-circulation, a fireplace, heated radiant floors in all the bathrooms, a box garage with space for two cars, total home automation, a security system and storage.

This stunning property is not necessarily something you expect to find in the centre of a city like Lisbon, and offers a fantastic opportunity to live a city life outside your door, and leave it behind for a peaceful, relaxed space inside.The house is for sale now on idealista for 3,500,000 euros.

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The top floor's master suite, with its own patio idealista

The lovely open concept kitchen idealista

The elegant dining area by the kitchen idealista

The entry hall to the property, with patio access idealista