Upper-floor lounge under a timber vaulted ceiling, open on two sides to palms and St Helena Bay
The villa

Built around ocean views for fourteen close guests.

Villa Selah is a contemporary beach house on the calm side of Shelley Point, where the bay is sheltered enough to swim and the sunrise comes straight through the glass.

A carved wooden whale tail in natural honey-coloured wood
The name

Selah: pause, reflect & praise.

A place where family and friends come together to pause, reflect on precious moments, cherish one another, and give praise for the blessings we share.

Steel-and-cable staircase beside the dining area, rattan chairs and the pool courtyard behind
The idea

Upside-down, on purpose.

The living happens upstairs: one vaulted room under a timber ceiling with the kitchen, two long tables, the pizza oven and the lounges, opening on three sides to the sea, the pool courtyard and the braai terrace. Downstairs is for sleeping, with four en-suite bedrooms, three of them stepping straight onto the deck and the dunes. A lift links both floors.

Lounge with white sofas and a jute rug facing floor-to-ceiling glass and the open sea
Materials

Timber, lime-washed plaster, jute and glass.

The palette is deliberately quiet: pale wood overhead, polished concrete underfoot, white leather sofas, woven pendants and copper. Nothing competes with the view.

Bedroom with a grey throw, bamboo pendant and glass doors to a timber deck and the ocean
Sleep

Wake up to the water.

Three of the ground-floor bedrooms open directly onto the timber deck. Draw the curtains and the first thing you see is the water. Extra-length beds, premium linen, electric blankets for winter and ceiling fans for summer.

The bedrooms
Villa Selah

“Little Greece” side of Shelley Point.

Still from the Villa Selah film: the white villa on the shore of the bay from the air, beach and boulders below
Open kitchen with Smeg range, timber shelves, brass pendants and a long harvest table with benches
Lounge looking towards the dining table, pizza oven and open kitchen under the timber ceiling
Plunge pool under a latte-wood pergola with the lounge and ocean beyond
The place

Shelley Point, St Helena Bay.

A private peninsula estate two hours north of Cape Town, with a 9-hole links course, 24-hour security and beaches on three sides. The "Little Greece" shore where the villa sits faces east into the bay: calm water, granite boulders, and sunrise over the sea, which is rare on this coast.

Paternoster is thirty minutes away; the West Coast National Park an hour. Whales pass between June and November, and dolphins most mornings.

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