4 Bed House in Tokai

This solid, versatile, eco-friendly family home in leafy Tokai is set in a magnificent, waterwise garden and offers several accommodation/work-from-home options.

Set on a large erf in leafy Tokai, in walking distance of the Forest Glade Centre, cycle routes, TMNP, Tokai forest, and municipal library, this solidly built 4-bedroom, 2-bathroom family home offers several accommodation options. These include a separate en-suite studio in a private courtyard, an option as an additional work-from-home space, a teen pad or accommodation for a live-in domestic.

The main home is airy and light with an easy flow. The prime living space offers an open-plan configuration of lounge (with a fully functional wood-burning fireplace, well used in winter), dining, and family-cum-TV rooms.

The large kitchen with oven and hob has floor-to-ceiling cupboards, offering loads of storage. It opens onto a private, secure courtyard, ideal as a children’s play area, space to establish a kitchen garden or a quiet retreat.

Three spacious, light-filled bedrooms (main en-suite) have ample BICs. A fourth room is used as a study.

All rooms open onto the north-facing garden or courtyard and have security doors.

But the jewel of this home is the waterwise, tree-dense, mostly indigenous garden, ideal for entertaining, garden cricket or lazy days. Enjoy it from the bamboo-covered veranda and open patio. The garden areas are irrigated using borehole water, which reflects the current owners’ drive for a home adapted to cope with the effects of climate change. These include growing water and energy challenges. As a result, they have installed solar energy, with additional panels should the new owners wish to install additional batteries. They have also added a vegetable tunnel and compost-making area for sustainable home produce.

The garden has been designed to attract, birds, bees and butterflies and is frequented by the endemic Cape dwarf chameleon. You also can enjoy the haunting call of African fish eagles overhead, visitors from nearby Sandvlei.

The property also offers a large double garage, secure, off-street parking for two vehicles, and a water storage tank in the kitchen courtyard.