Property News · February 6, 2022

A Cape Wineland’s farmhouse is restored to its rustic yet grand origins


An 18th-century home in South Africa has been returned to its traditional Cape Dutch styleThe air, heavy in the late afternoon sunshine, hums with the work of the bees in Babylonstoren’s garden of Eden. Here, owners Karen Roos and Koos Bekker grow more than 300 varieties of edible or medicinal plants in the extraordinary gardens inspired by the farms that supplied ships passing the Cape of Good Hope in the 17th century, when the farm was first established.Today, the werf (farmyard) and its structures remain among the finest unspoilt examples of traditional Cape Dutch architectural styles. In this positively utopian setting in South Africa’s Cape Winelands, the Owners’ House – the Babylonstoren estate’s principal home – is irresistible. Roos’s deft touch and nuanced appreciation of tradition are unmistakable in the simplicity of her homestead, which has been not so much restored as fully reinvigorated. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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