Featured Homes

Your favourite homes of 2018

Written by Shereen Lurie

We’ve put together a round-up of your favourite featured homes from 2018. These are the homes that received the highest number of views on our website last year. Enjoy!

1. Lock up and go

A large open and inviting driveway welcomes guests into this neat, practical and environmentally friendly home. Close to Johannesburg, Pretoria and the airport, the home was designed with specific needs in mind.

Image: Franz Rabe

2. Seamless space

When the home owner set out to create his dream home, his goal was to design a house quite unlike any other. By blending a variety of materials, textures, colours and contrasts, he’s achieved just that.

Image: Nic Baleta

3. Family affair

Large, open-plan spaces with an interconnection between the inside and the outdoors was what these home owners were after.

Image: Ian Cooper

4. Ambient living

Having renovated their previous home, the owners of this grand property in the Cape Winelands decided that a new build this time around would be more in line with what they wanted.

Image: Keith Quixley

5. Attention to detail

Nestled in the middle of one of Johannesburg’s more established suburbs, the fortress-like minimalism of this home’s exterior belies the modern contemporary warmth within. A quadruple garage serves to anchor the home while an exterior stairway allows guests to enter the ground floor, with a striking white Baby Grand piano positioned to greet them.

Image: Nic Baleta

6. Beach bliss

Changing just a few things to a home can completely update its look. That’s what the owners of this coastal getaway found after their interior designer transformed a dark house into an entertainer’s paradise.

Image: Chris Allen

7. Seaside style

An unsurpassed view and sense of space make for easy living at this holiday home. Since her permanent residence is a fourth-generation farmhouse full of heirlooms and antiques, the owner was determined to create a fresh, fun aesthetic for the family’s seaside holiday home. “I want this to be a place where our friends feel they can take off their shoes and relax,” she explains.

Image: Chris Allen

8. Down to a fine art

Eco-friendly estate living has become increasingly popular in the Boland region of the Western Cape, and looking at this fresh, modern property, one can see why.

Image: Keith Quixley

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Shereen Lurie

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