New Build - Utopia estate in the bush

A granny cottage, staff quarters, a big workshop and a new family home totally off-grid in the bush north of Windhoek, Namibia

Project | home | 2016/01/01-2017/12/31

We had a plan to build our new home on a farm south of Windhoek, Namibia.  When the plan collapsed, we were devastated.  For months, we looked around Windhoek but never found a match.  Then one day, we were invited to see a plot for sale on a farm north of Windhoek.  When we reached the top of the hill that separates Ongos farm from the developed area of Brakwater, we immediately felt in love with the area.  The owner of the 1400 ha game farm, the Tubbesing family are wildlife veterinaries and there is plenty of game on the farm which is pure bveauty and only 20 km from Windhoek. See the beautiful place where we live.

This is where we have built our new home, a cottage for granny – my mother – who turned recently 90 and a big workshop where we will also build our expedition camper truck in thge near future. See the building of Utopia Estate.

I have used a CAD software to plan the house which is now completed since almost 2 years.  See how close we got from the 3D model!

We had a plan to build our new home on a farm south of Windhoek, Namibia.  When the plan collapsed, we were devastated.  For months, we looked around Windhoek but never found a match.  Then one day, we were invited to see a plot for sale on a farm north of Windhoek.  When we reached the top of the hill that separates Ongos farm from the developed area of Brakwater, we immediately felt in love with the area.  The owner of the 1400 ha game farm, the Tubbesing family are wildlife veterinaries and there is plenty of game on the farm which is pure bveauty and only 20 km from Windhoek. See the beautiful place where we live.

This is where we have built our new home, a cottage for granny – my mother – who turned recently 90 and a big workshop where we will also build our expedition camper truck in thge near future. See the building of Utopia Estate.

I have used a CAD software to plan the house which is now completed since almost 2 years.  See how close we got from the 3D model!

During the hard work...

And how it looked at the end...