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WHO LIVES HERE? Roché and Barend Potgieter with their daughter Núa Nova (5).

WHERE Simondium, Paarl

SIZE 235m²

City living has its perks, but it isn’t for everyone. Young parents Roché and Barend Potgieter were living in a vibrant city pad when the opportunity to buy a simple three-bedroom home next to Roché’s father’s olive farm in Simondium presented itself.

They jumped at it. “We wanted our daughter Núa Nova to have grass to play on and open spaces to enjoy,” Roché says of

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