Nature house in The Midlands, Karkloof, Howick

This naturehouse is a luxurious, contemporary, spacious self-catering farm home that offers self-catering accommodation sleeping up to 8 adults in 4 bedrooms (2 King, 4 Singles) with 3.5 bathrooms. Large doors and windows open onto expansive verandahs, inviting dams & offer stunning views of the indigenous forest and grasslands. Relax on loungers, swim, paddle or tube in the dam, enjoy ball games in the beautifully landscaped country garden, explore walking, hiking & biking trails, and on colder evenings, feel at home in front of warm fireplaces with board games or books. The house is equipped with an upstairs attic with a ping-pong table. This naturehouse was architecturally designed by Richard Stretton and styled by Angela Shaw from Koop Design in 2009.The brief was to design a home that lives in harmony with the environment. The black exterior paint gives camouflage in summer & warmth in winter. The colour pallete of the house reflects the changing seasons of the forests and farmlands,

The Reserve boasts one of South Africa’s largest indigenous forests, many dams, waterfalls and weirs with birds, fish and game and the entire property has over 25km of well maintained hiking, mountain biking and trail funning trails. This naturehouse is 20 minutes drive from the closest town of Howick. The Nature House is next door to Rockwood Farm Cottage and 20 minutes drive to both Forest Lodge and Mountain Lodge in the Karkloof Nature Reserve.