1149 at Waterfall Country Estate was completed in April and we thought it would be good to post some pictures. The house combines a modern interior with a modern country style exterior.
Size: 563m2
Project Duration: – 8.5 Months
Some of the special features:
- Heatpump driven water based underfloor heating throughout the house.
- 9m Swimming Pool with Jacuzzi which rim flows into the main pool. The pool is heated by the same heat pump which drives the under floor heating. This works really well as the seasons for each usage do not overlap so it extracts maximum value from the high upfront cost of the heat pump.
- Makes use of the GIRA RF lighting control system. One of the best things about this system are the beautiful glass lighting switches and the complete range of electronic devices within the GIRA range. Thermostats, fan controls, plugs, light switches, door bells and TV points and network points all have common look and fit into the multi- gang glass housing. The GIRA system enables all the lighting in the house to be controlled centrally, from wall remotes, from a key ring remote or even from an Iphone/Android Device.
- The 1.5x volume lounge is one of the special rooms in the house and also features a Morso closed combustion fireplace and solid Zambezi teak flooring.
- The lighting in the dining room features a fibre optic “starry sky” built into a bulkhead over the dining room table. Light from a colour controllable LED is fed into a loom of fused fibre optic fibres which then distribute the light to create tiny star like points in the ceiling. Different sized fibres provide variability and the overall pattern at night is something to behold.
- The kitchen is high spec with a Niemann and Caesarstone finish. The use of a Best Italia extractor built into the ceiling bulkhead means that there is no obstruction of the view from the kitchen into the playroom and enables the island to serve the dual purpose of main cooking area as well as gathering point.
- The garden, bar a lemon tree, is 100% indigenous (even the lawn). It features a number of different zones including – a succulent garden containing many of the plants indigenous to the estate and recovered prior to site cleaning, a deciduous forest on the west of the house to block the sun in summer and allow it in during winter, an ever green zone to create year round privacy in the front garden and berry garden to attract birds. A large River Bushwillow which was situated in the middle of the stand before construction was moved to a corner and now serves as a focal point for the garden.
- Rain water is collected from the gutter down pipes and fed into a central underground reservoir with a capacity of 13000l. This water is then fed through to the irrigation system. This system also collects excess ground water.
