New Frontiers

This garden cottage in the Cape Winelands honours its past with sentimental touches, but thanks to its functional design it firmly looks to the future

VICKI SLEET

HEAVENLY HOMES Pressing pause on the patio Peet and MJ Hunt with their children. Situated adjacent to their own home, the cottage is a perfectly proportioned sanctuary with a slew of thoughtful design details that embrace old and new. The cottage has a 100 m2 indoor footprint, so the partially covered outdoor patio creates welcome extra living space and an opportunity to maximise outdoor entertaining. The foldaway steel shutters provide both privacy and shade without the constraints of permanent walls or brickwork. The narrow workbench and worn garden chairs tap into a rustic sensibility that designer Charlotte Collins effortlessly combines with modern touches. The traditional red brickwork is another detail that embraces old-school design while used in a modern way. The small town of Stellenbosch is the second oldest in…

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SA Garden and Home (Digital) - 1 Issue, March 2023

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