Although the heavy, wooden ceiling beams and curvaceously paned glass doors of this lavish mansion, in Cape Town’s Constantia, suggest historic origins, the house was actually built in the late sixties. “When we first walked into the entrance hall a few years ago, we experienced an old-world sense of grand proportions, but it was those handsome doors looking out towards the garden that clinched it for us,” says Philip Tyers, who owns the house with his wife Nicky.
While the house, a traditional design in the form of an H, had become “a bit of a rabbit warren”, with various add-ons over time, “it had exceptional bones,” says Nicky. “We felt inspired to create something really wonderful.”
Philip and Nicky are the design brains behind Colonial House Design, an interior…
