Happy Days: Barossa Valley house featured in Instant Hotel up for sale

Buyers after space and lashings of carefully cultivated retro style might find this South Australian property, priced at $975,000, fits the bill.

On a 5000-square-metre block there’s the main, renovated house with four bedrooms and three bathrooms – and a stunning retro garage conversion.

This separate guest accommodation is set up with a range of design features from the 1950s and ’60s. The collection was built up over 20 years and includes pieces imported from the US.

The guest kitchen has been reinvented in the form of an American diner — “so you’ll feel like you’re on the set of Happy Days”— with the conversion been run as the highly-rated Barossa Old Garage Bed and Breakfast.

The main family home, too, is available for short-term stays as the Barossa Retro B’n’B, styled with more of a ’60s and ’70s vibe.

One of the owners, Jannine Moar, said she was in no real rush to sell, but had decided to list their home because B’n’B-style properties could take longer to change hands.

“We’re looking to downsize in the future,” she said.

And for those keen on continuing the accomodation business, nearly all of the retro collectibles would come included as part of the sale.

“It’s basically what is in the property, besides a few things that are close to my husband’s heart,” she said, adding that she would like to see the popular local fixture stick around as a business, even if it would make a “fantastic man cave for a guy with a few cars”.

“I think it’s a great thing for somebody to continue doing that. And it’s well known in the Barossa, what we do.  It’d be a shame to see it disappear as a bed and breakfast.”

“It’s a fantastic lifestyle, even for someone who wants to move over from the eastern states. All the hard work has been done.”

The home had a television appearance in the first season of Channel Seven’s Instant Hotel, with Mrs Moar and her husband telling the Barossa Herald at the time that the chance to show off the Barossa Valley was too good to pass up.

“We live in a beautiful place and we are so proud to show off our backyard, why wouldn’t we want to show it off?” Mr Moar said.

Records show the property last sold for $515,000 in July 2011. It is currently listed through Homburg Real Estate.

The commercial centre of the Barossa Valley, Nurioopta is around an hour’s drive north of Adelaide and is close to a range of well-known wineries.

So far there have been over 30 sales in Nurioopta this year, with the most expensive being a five-bedroom home at 18 Jaensch Crescent, which changed hands for $442,500 in January.