Atlantic View

Atlantic View

Selected by The Greenwood Guide to South Africa, 2nd edition

Text written by Simon Greenwood

Is this how film stars live? I think so. Greg and Rainer have really splashed out and turned this Camps Bay house into a luxury pad. Guests live on the downstairs level of the two-storey house overlooking the pool and sea. Three rooms have the pure sea view - Greg is even busy burying the electricity line at the back so guests don�t have to look at anything so mundane � while the fourth room looks up at the mountain behind the house. Bedrooms are slick and chic: travertine floors, modern bright local art, orthopaedically comfortable beds, finest linen, silk cushions scattered with care, safes hidden in cupboards, bathrobes�.

It�s all swishly state-of-the-art, the dernier cri of the interiors magazines that are queuing up to photograph the place. Bathrooms are also modern with frameless glass and side-jets in the showers and a sort of cascade-effect tap in the baths. The rooms all open onto an outside space, where you can have breakfast if you choose or you can have it in the sitting-cum-dining room inside (also stylish and modern with satellite TV, DVDs and CD). When I visited the garden had just been created. Palm trees were flown in by a 60-tonne crane no less (as Greg says "It gave a whole new meaning to Sunday afternoon gardening") and there are koy ponds and tropical plants. There�s also an overflow pool, surrounded by smart chaises longues, so get your sunglasses on and dream of Hollywood!

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