House and Leisure - October 2015

Olive the Weimaraner at the entrance of DC

and Celeste Bezuidenhoudt’s Irene home. The

entrance is the most overtly modern element:

a glass box designed, as architect Thomas

Gouws puts it, to ‘direct the eye out over the

landscape’. OPPOSITE Seen from the reverse

angle, the new formal lounge opens onto

the pool deck, which becomes an extension

of the living space. The steeply pitched

roof is in keeping with the estate’s stylistic

guidelines but ventures a modern take on

barn style architecture.

HOUSE OF THE MONTH

BARN STYLE HOME

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