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Living room with white slipcovered sofas, blue and white cushions, a carved marble fireplace and a gilt mirror

Belvedere

Heritage restoration for a family home built in 1901, keeping the original Arts and Crafts exterior intact while the interior was reworked. The pressed ceilings, sash windows, and carved fireplace surrounds stay as the house's anchor.

Location
Oranjezicht
Rooms
5 Bedrooms
Year
1995
Covered patio with wicker armchairs and a white sofa with pink and blue cushions, looking onto a lawn and pool
Dining room under a pressed metal ceiling, with a wooden table, white slipcovered chairs and doors open to the garden

Interior walls came down opening the living area for this large, active family. The original pressed metal ceilings, deep skirtings, and a carved marble fireplace stayed untouched, so the house's Arts and Crafts character carries through rooms that no longer resemble their 1901 layout. Furnishing favoured comfort over formality: deep slipcovered sofas, floral and ikat cushions, gilt-framed mirrors beside contemporary art and family photographs.

Bedroom with a pale blue bedspread, a wingback armchair and footstool, and bookshelves between sash windows
Living room with tall bay windows overlooking the pool, white sofas and a glass coffee table

The same approach, three decades apart, builds homes around how families actually gather. Here, that meant converting a heritage building into the family home this brief asked for: one built to host weekly dinners for 40 people, kids underfoot, and everything else that comes with a boisterous family under one roof. A heritage house from 1901 became a place for making memories rather than a house too precious to live in.

  • Bathroom vanity with a round basin on a stone counter, oak drawers and a vase of pink orchids
  • Kitchen island with a gas hob beside an exposed brick wall and a framed christening gown
  • Bedside with a white turned lamp on a black table, a grey upholstered headboard and a striped blind
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