26 On First is a 8-bedroom villa in Camps Bay, sleeping up to 16. It has a private pool, sea views and views up to the Twelve Apostles. Practical bits: air conditioning, WiFi, off-street parking and a braai area. This property does not accept pets. The address is 26 1st Crescent Street, Camps Bay, 8040 Cape Town. That is a short drive down to the beach, and about twenty minutes into the city bowl.
Eight bedrooms across two levels, and a garden landscaped as carefully as the house itself.
The villa is finished in warm sand-coloured render behind glass balustrades, standing directly under the Twelve Apostles with the rooftops of Camps Bay and the bay below it. A long rectangular pool runs across the terrace with grey loungers and an outdoor dining set beside it, and at night the whole living level lights up behind the water. The garden is a proper piece of design: grey feature walls, cycads, aloes and palms in white gravel beds, granite paving, a curve of lawn, a stone sphere sculpture and an outdoor shower column.
Pale terrazzo floors run through the main level. One lounge takes a charcoal corner sofa with teal and mustard cushions, round glass tables and a timber slat screen, a sculptural chandelier over the dining table and a glass-balustrade staircase climbing behind it. The second is warmer: a stacked-stone chimney breast with a built-in stainless braai and log store, a freestanding black wood stove, a grey corner sofa and log-slice wall art.
Both are white gloss and handleless with seafoam glass splashbacks. One centres on a quartz island with black bar stools and an induction hob; the other runs a gas hob along the counter with double ovens and a wine fridge. For a group of sixteen, that second kitchen earns its keep.
One bedroom pairs an upholstered headboard with a grey sofa at the foot of the bed, white cane-style armchairs, a round stone table and a ceiling fan, with sliding doors to the garden. A treadmill and spin bike are set up in a corner of their own with doors onto the planting.
26 1st Crescent Street, Camps Bay, 8040 Cape Town, South Africa