Model and writer Tara Moss and husband Berndt Sellheim sell Blackheath treechange home for $1.85 million

Model and best selling author Tara Moss has offloaded her Blue Mountains treechange home.

Moss and her writer husband Berndt Sellheim sold their Blackheath house for $1.85 million.

The couple made their tree change to the Blue Mountains suburb two years before daughter Sap­phira was born. Moss had married poet and philosophy professor Sellheim in 2009, the same year Canyon Cottage, set on 1.2ha, cost $585,000.

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Tara Moss’ Blackheath treechanger has been sold.


Supplied Editorial 196 Evans Lookout Road, Blackheath, NSW 2785

The 21-year old home sits on 1.2 ha,


The four-bedroom home built in 2000, took just 16 days to sell earlier this month

It comes with something of a baronial room with bar under a high coffered ceiling.

There are French doors opening to a north facing terrace, and the room is used as a home cinema and dining room.

The kitchen was described as modest but with top-of-the-range Smeg appliances. Facing north, it catches the light all winter long, Richardson & Wrench selling agent Lewis Thyer noted, and has two gas furnaces for its under floor heating system.

Tara Moss and husband Berndt Sellheim Source: Instagram

Tara Moss and husband Berndt Sellheim have live in the home since 2009. Source: Instagram


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The main indoor feature is the home’s baronial room.


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That doubles as a home cinema.


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There is also a copper drenching system that covers the whole house, fed by a large dam and pump.

“Subtly set back from the road in its sprawling garden surrounds is Canyon Cottage. Cottage is, I must say, quite the understatement, as this home is quite frankly enormous,” the listing read.

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Character filled main bathroom.


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Bucolic kerb appeal.


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Another angle of the ‘baronial’ room, which is flooded with northern light.


Moss, who was born in Canada, has written 13 best-selling fiction and nonfiction books.

Her debut novel, Fetish, written when she was 23, was published in 1999. She’d been a model at age 14 and moved to Australia in 1996.

Author and model Tara Moss. Picture: Supplied


Blackheath’s median house price sits at $727,000, according to ­realestate.com.au.

Meanwhile, Clarissa Weerasena, the wife of former My Kitchen Rules judge Manu Feildel, has sold a Waterloo investment ahead of its scheduled November 3 auction.

Its sale price was undisclosed, but underbidders were told to better $1.06 million.

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Manu Feildel and wife Clarissa Weerasena. Picture: Getty


It is in the 135-apartment George St warehouse style complex George & Allen.

The Waterloo apartment has wide-board timber floors.

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The apartment’s industrial-chic aesthetic included raw concrete ceilings and wide-board timber floors, bold black feature accents, and full-height glass stacker doors opening to an ­entertainers’ terrace.

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The Waterloo home sold for more than $1m.


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It is in the 135-apartment George St warehouse style complex George & Allen.


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The unit block has won a number of design awards.


The complex was des­igned in 2013 by Turner Studio architectural design, with interiors by Hecker Guthrie. The complex ­secured a gold medal in the Interior Design Excellence Awards.

The jewellery designer secured the two-bedroom investment apartment in 2013 at $632,000.

The couple have lived in Maroubra since paying $1.9 million in 2015.

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The couple have owned the home since 2013.


The couple run La Botanique, a multifunctional warehouse space hired out as a kitchen for filming and functions.

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