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SOPHISTICATED, SECURE, STYLISH AND QUINTESSENTIALLY PLAYFUL

A most beautiful property, carefully re-designed by the talented and celebrated Melissa Bolus to create a home that offers welcoming, delightful and impressive entertainment areas along with nurturing & comfortable bedrooms.

The styling is simply, in a word, classy; classic in some ways, comfortable, richly fitted and effortless.

It's located in a quiet, leafy cul de sac, in a quiet, leafy suburb on the side of a small hill, at the bottom of which pre-school children can safely play. This is where you will find this gorgeous, gentle, generous home waiting for you.

As one enters the property, a koi pond with the cool and languid movement that it signifies welcomes you and takes you up perfectly laid steps to the fabulous front door...a stunning piece that was retained and restored from the original home. It's a wonderful example of the art deco style of the early twentieth century, perfectly incorporated into this very contemporary, bright and handsome home.

Designed and made to be enjoyed every day, in all the highveld weathers that we have, and to offer absolute safety to those who reside within, always, it's a property that offers what many aspire to, it promises what many would love to be able to, and, most importantly, it wholeheartedly embraces those that call it home.

Entertaining is obligatory, with the open-plan living space that opens up to both the pool and patios, the kitchen (M Marina Shahini) that's equipped with everything a chef would demand in order to perform miracles, and a sizeable scullery to manage large numbers of guests.

It's a cool house in hot summers, with the calming, deeply coloured pool being the visual cue to relax, unwind and share time with good company. In the winter (right now) it's sun-drenched, warm and friendly.

Downstairs, on the north-west side of the house, is the guest suite, where the northern winter streams in through the bay window and the lights come on around the koi pond. The en-suite here features an original art deco tub, very heavy, deep and old-school modern; the epitome of luxury and indulgence a hundred years ago...

The children's wonderful play-room, outside and next to where the adults spend much of the weekends, is easy to convert to a cottage or other accommodation, depending on your needs...be it private consulting or an art room...

With all this loveliness, one might be concerned that security has taken a back seat, but not so; the cul-de=sac is boomed with a 24hr guard in place to begin with, and the home itself is a well-disguised fortress. If you or your spouse travel, and you prefer to remain upstairs once dinner is over, the cozy pyjama lounge has a perfect easy-reach snack & drink space, and across the passage, the study ensures that work and leisure can be combined for the family to have proximity to each other but also privacy and space.

If these features sound interesting to you, and you also want to be able to easily lock-up-and-leave it to the housekeeper, you should see this house. It's been a home for longer than St Mary's has been a school, and it's quite possibly the most beautiful home you're going to see this year.

Please note: our first show day is on 17th July 2022