{"id":124488,"date":"2022-02-06T16:30:22","date_gmt":"2022-02-06T09:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/a-cape-winelands-farmhouse-is-restored-to-its-rustic-yet-grand-origins\/"},"modified":"2022-02-06T17:08:45","modified_gmt":"2022-02-06T10:08:45","slug":"a-cape-winelands-farmhouse-is-restored-to-its-rustic-yet-grand-origins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/a-cape-winelands-farmhouse-is-restored-to-its-rustic-yet-grand-origins\/","title":{"rendered":"A Cape Wineland\u2019s farmhouse is restored to its rustic yet grand origins"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nAn 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\u2019s 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\u2019s Cape Winelands, the Owners\u2019 House \u2013 the Babylonstoren estate\u2019s principal home \u2013 is irresistible. Roos\u2019s 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…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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