Denneboom
If we were to leave the beautiful valley of Hout Bay, Klein Constantia is the place we would choose to make our home. Denneboom is in Klein Constantia and in the heart of the Constantia winelands. A large beautiful thatched home with plenty of space for everyone. An awe-inspiring, long and winding drive way through […]
Hawk’s Eye
Towering above the town like a monolithic architectural masterpiece, emerging from the curves of Signal Hill, overlooking the sprawling terrain of the city’s urban landscape, the harbour and all the way out across the ocean, Hawk’s Eye wilfully whisks you away on its wings and out to sea on the Atlantic Seaboard. Set on three […]
Seascape
It is only when you turn and, with your back to the mountain, take in one of the most glorious and powerful views of Cape Town, Atlantic Seaboard, that you fully appreciate the impact of Seascape high on the slopes of Table Mountain National Park. Framed by the green belt, the Cape Town stadium is […]
Upper Camp Lookout
Some beach houses are simply imbued with a carefree happiness. They make you smile. This is one of them, atop a fynbos-clad eyrie in Misty Cliffs on the Southern Peninsula. Ironically, Henning, its architect-owner is not local yet he’s intuitively chosen colours that resonate perfectly with everything Capetonians love about this cliffside village along the […]
Noordhoek Seashore
Traversing the coastal roads of the great Cape’s Southern Peninsula is much like venturing into a Tolkien realm of a lost and enchanted land. Where gold and green mountains meet endless blankets of blue. Winding roads carve their ways around the cliffs, down lanes that lead to a quaint utopia of age-old villages with their […]
The Blvck House
When you think of the outlandish Southern Peninsula seaside hamlet of Scarborough – with its rugged nature trails and long stretches of sand, spectacular surf, quirky cafés and delicatessens, country pubs and buoyant community of creatives and farmers, inspired entrepreneurs and active families – scenes of an idyllic rural existence occupy your mind. Where you’ll […]
Blue Waters
We always seem to arrive at this gorgeous Southern Peninsula seaside cottage (yes, we’re regulars!) just in time for sundowners. It’s a wise move. We pack a drinks-and-nibbles basket, dash across the road to the footpath that leads to the marine reserve and within minutes, we’re sitting on the rocks, watching the False Bay swells […]
Parrot House
Parrot House – Some say that the remote little settlement of Misty Cliffs, along the Cape’s revered Southern Peninsula route, between the quaint hamlets of Scarborough and Kommetjie, is one of the best kept secrets along the shores of the Atlantic. With a blend of old and quirky, suave and contemporary bungalows tiered into the […]
Villa Toscana
‘Those were properly wild days,’ muses world-renowned artist Beezy Bailey, as we sit on the stoep of Villa Toscana with the world’s most recognisable view stretching out before us. ‘When we first lived here in this rather elaborate “Italian folly” it was like being paupers in a palace! It belonged to my aunt, Stella Cappini […]
Cape Kloof Villa
In all of its raw and rugged beauty, Cape Town has a way of framing its natural features and etching its energy into our homes. The mountain and her ridges become garden features, the skies become an extended runway to our ceilings, the ocean becomes the spillage from our swimming pools and the wind wafts […]
The Quarry House
The Quarry House occupies a site that looks like it’s been scooped out of the mountain. It’s the old Bellevue Quarry from which came massive blocks of coarse Table Mountain granite for the building of Herbert Baker’s Rhodes Memorial in 1912. Three-bedroom, three-bathroom The Quarry House ‘grows’ out of it, rising vertically on a massive […]
Pepper Tree House
It’s tempting to re-define Pepper Tree House. It’s designed rather as a space that’s sophisticated, calm, elegant and elusively stylish. A bit like many of the women you pass in the streets of Milan or Paris who project that almost impossible to copy street-chic. So let’s rename Pepper Tree House a multi-level urban ‘sky-villa’ then. […]
Guild Residency
Interior design, in its most refined expression, has the capacity to direct the way we feel and interact with the space around us. The Guild Residency, occupying the expansive third floor of a Bauhaus-inspired apartment block in the urban heart of Cape Town, is an ode to the potency of well-intentioned design. Curated by two […]
Cape Heritage Hotel
In the very heart of Cape Town is this historic boutique hotel, with its hub of a central courtyard and the oldest grapevine in the city. The bedrooms are all en suite and each decorated with an individual contemporary African flavour and original artworks. All the rooms have kept their high beamed teak ceilings with […]
Seabreeze
Shoots made easy! Scandi-style paired with a calm, neutral palate in the coastal haven of Yzerfontein Great design is such a delight to behold, and at Seabreeze, one cannot help but marvel at how this beautiful, Nordic look home, some distance from the ocean, appears to be frontline. Found on the West Coast in Yzerfontein, just 90 […]
Cape Cottage
Seaside Serenity Cape Cottage encapsulates that perfect west coast hideaway, where the stunning ocean views and wild, rugged landscape canvas this cosy Yzerfontein retreat. We go west for a number of reasons. Not because the Pet Shop Boys are telling us to do so. Yes, life is peaceful there, in the open air and all […]