Villa VDV

A complete renovation in the Valley of Life: four en suite bedrooms arranged as two wings around a sheltered lap pool courtyard, with the vines running toward the mountains beyond.

Within the estate, Villa VDV is completing a full renovation and reads as Cape Winelands architecture reinterpreted for the present. Gabled roof forms and white rendered walls acknowledge the farmhouses that have stood in this valley for three centuries; the plan, however, is entirely contemporary.

The buyer steps straight into a brand new home in one of South Africa's most sought after security estates, consistently rated among the country's top residential addresses and the safest in Africa.

Two wings fold around a central courtyard conceived as the home's private stage: a reclaimed timber deck, a lap pool sheltered from the Cape breeze and, beyond the water, rows of vines running toward the mountains.

Protected from the wind and open to the sun, it is an outdoor living room with the vineyards as its backdrop.

Inside, the renovation favours openness. Kitchen, dining and family lounge share one light filled volume that spills onto an enclosed patio with built in braai, the South African ritual of fireside cooking given permanent architecture.

Each of the four bedrooms enjoys its own en suite bathroom, while staff accommodation and an enclosed double garage complete the practical brief.

The Valley of Life: polo fields, vineyards and the Berg River, behind security that has made the estate a reference point across the continent.