Every suburb throws up a different problem

Melkbosstrand

7441

Our most recent beach-house project is here, and it is the suburb that taught us the most about building within sight of the water.

Bloubergstrand

7441

Everybody buys in Blouberg for the view of the mountain. Then they discover the wind that makes the view so clear.

Table View

7441

Table View is full of solid, sensible family houses built in an era when kitchens were separate rooms and nobody had heard of open plan.

Big Bay

7441

Newer housing, tighter rules. Big Bay work is as much about the design guidelines as it is about the building.

Sunset Beach

7441

Big plots and a straight line of sight to Table Mountain. Sunset Beach jobs are usually about making more of what the site already gives you.

West Beach

7441

Compact plots close to the beach. When you cannot build outwards, the answer is usually up, or smarter.

Parklands

7441

One of the fastest-grown suburbs on the coast, and one where almost every family eventually wants one more room.

Sunningdale

7441

Family houses on decent plots, mostly a generation newer than Table View and mostly wanting the same two things: better flow and a proper outdoor room.

Duynefontein

7441

The most exposed position on our patch, and the strictest design codes. Both things push the specification in the same direction.

Milnerton

7441

The oldest housing stock on this stretch of coast, and the most interesting to work on.

Century City

7441

Mostly interior work, mostly in sectional title, and almost entirely a logistics exercise before it is a building one.

Durbanville

7550

Away from the salt, on bigger plots, with a completely different set of ground conditions to think about.

Bellville

7530

Some of the best-built, worst-laid-out family houses in Cape Town, on plots big enough to fix the problem.

Brackenfell

7560

Family suburbs built in the last thirty years, where almost every job is about adding one more room or one more entertaining space.

Rondebosch

7700

Beautiful old houses, and almost every one of them old enough that the law has an opinion about what you do to it.

Claremont

7708

Period houses on one side of the road, dense new townhouse development on the other. The two need completely different builders.

Newlands

7700

The wettest suburb in the country. If a detail is going to leak anywhere, it will leak here first.

Constantia

7806

Big plots, big trees, and a planning environment that takes the look of the valley seriously.

Somerset West

7130

The Helderberg has its own weather, its own wind, and a lot of estates with a lot of rules.

Strand

7140

A False Bay beachfront with the same salt problem as the West Coast, and an older housing stock that has been taking it for longer.

Gordon's Bay

7150

The views are the reason people build here. The slope is the reason it costs what it costs.

Stellenbosch

7600

One of the most tightly conserved towns in the country, and the rules are the project as much as the building is.