Kei Mouth · Eastern Cape
Whitfield Consult
House Webber
A 1980s family home opened up to the ocean, rebuilt around a clearer plan and a quieter language.
A house with the view, but not the connection.
The brief was to renovate and modernise a 1980s family home built around sweeping tiled roofs and sectioned, compartmentalised rooms.
The client wanted a restrained monochromatic palette of black, white and grey, with clean architectural lines, material contrast, light polished concrete floors and an open interior made for relaxed family life and entertaining.
Spatial congestion against a panoramic view.
The kitchen sat at the back of the house, and everyday access ran through it rather than through the front entrance. Narrow passages and small disconnected rooms held the living spaces away from the coastal outlook.
The response was not to patch the existing arrangement, but to rework the interior around the view.
Once accurate measurements established the structural loads, the divisions between the office, lounge and passage came out.
One uninterrupted line through the house.
A new front door on the north side opens a direct visual axis through the living area towards the sea, so the house is entered on the view rather than around it.
The structural opening is carried by an engineer specified I-beam concealed inside the ceiling, which keeps the ceiling plane reading as one continuous surface.
Three bedrooms · three en-suites · one living axis
The front door, the living space and the sea now sit on one line.
New north entrance · concealed I-beam · continuous ceiling plane
A quieter palette, carried through every room.
White walls and cabinetry hold the canvas, balanced by silver carpentry handles and kickplates, light grey floors and a small amount of timber. Caesarstone Empira White runs across counters, vanities and bedside tables, with grey wall accents behind the toilets and bidets.
Every bedroom faces the ocean and has its own en-suite and walk-in closet.
Living extends to the deck.
Stack-away doors open the living spaces straight onto the deck, so the coastal outlook becomes part of the everyday interior instead of a view held behind glass.
The plan behind the transformation.
The documentation sets out the relationship between the existing house, the revised circulation and the coastal setting. The drawings are shown once here rather than as the full construction set.
A simpler house, built around the view.
The original shell was kept. Inside it, the house became a monochromatic, minimalist home organised around a seamless white canvas and an uninterrupted ocean outlook. Three bedrooms with en-suites, generous living areas and a direct connection to the deck deliver the relaxed, entertaining home the brief asked for.
Every property has a signature.
House Webber · Kei Mouth · 2025