From the road there is no hint of what lies behind the expansive front door.
Stained cedar is clad vertically and horizontally and access is by way of a floating deck on a little moat. The cedar sweeps inside to form an art gallery, designed to display the couple's favourite paintings and art.
"We purposely designed the house so it was relatively austere from the road, we didn't want to give away what was behind the walls," Geoff says. He leads the way through the open-plan ground floor past the entertainer's kitchen on one side, with a 4.5m-long floating benchtop, and lounge on the other side with a marble feature wall.
Out the front, through the large pull-back glass doors, is Campbells Bay Reserve and playground and out ahead of that is the beach and Rakino Island in the distance. Says Belinda: "It's 100 steps and you're on the beach. It's a little hidden gem -- it's spectacular really."
The couple wanted the look of a beach house so the tiles on the ground floor run inside and outside.
There is a2m-deep elliptical pool and a cabana with toilet, changing area and a kitchenette for entertaining.
The shape of the pool matches another ellipse cut into an overhang at a different angle to provide interesting reflections as the sun crosses the sky.
Geoff says the idea came out of playing around with shapes and the couple felt the look worked in with a 60s-style house.
"I've always liked that style of architecture. I've always liked the clean lines. It is a very modern house and we both like modern lines and we both like simplicity, so we just played on that theme.
"On a nice day you tend to want to stay out all day. It's like a resort."
By the pool is a creek, which has eels, ducks, herons and shags, where the couple's two boys loved to play when they were growing up.
"We get orcas out there," says Belinda. "Just 20 or 30m offshore, because there's a reef off there and they come for the stingrays, and the dolphins come through, and the gannets come diving. It's great."
Indoors, in the middle of the ground floor is a curved staircase designed as a feature. It appears to be floating, with the stained cedar wrapping around and leading upstairs. There are two matching bedrooms up here for the boys, sharing a big bathroom, which look out to sea, and Geoff's and Belinda's master bedroom, with en suite and large walk-in wardrobe, also looking out at the ocean.
