Villa River 42 is a 4-bedroom villa in Camps Bay, sleeping up to 8. 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 42 Rottingdean Road, Camps Bay, 8005 Cape Town. That is a short drive down to the beach, and about twenty minutes into the city bowl.
A quiet, tree-shaded house on Rottingdean Road, closer to a forest retreat than a sea-view showpiece.
The pool is free-form, curving into broad hardwood decking under old trees, with cream beanbag loungers on the boards and the sun dropping through the canopy in the evening. A deep covered terrace runs alongside on black steel columns, ceiled in reed latte and lit with recessed downlights; cream modular outdoor sofas and a big raw-edge timber dining table on woven-seat chairs sit beneath it, a step from the water. An upper deck walkway with more beanbags looks down over the lot.
Black steel-framed windows and doors in the Crittall style run right through the house against white walls, pale oak floors and honed limestone. It is a calm, quite grown-up palette, warmed up with jute, raw timber and carved African pieces.
The main lounge keeps cream linen sofas on a jute rug with round timber tables. A snug behind it is built against a rough-cut sandstone wall with a freestanding black wood stove and steel doors out to the deck, where a gas braai stands ready. A third room takes a long steel-framed window onto the garden, a timber bench, corduroy beanbags and a television.
The kitchen has white handleless units with composite tops, a professional gas range under a stainless extractor, a double sink with a spring-neck tap, floating shelves against stone, and a breakfast counter with bar stools and a wine fridge. A white plastered stair with a black steel balustrade climbs beside the stone wall to a gallery landing. The main bedroom is vaulted, with pale oak underfoot, a wood stove of its own, a jute rug and steel-framed doors to the garden.
42 Rottingdean Road, Camps Bay, 8005 Cape Town, South Africa