Purists will argue about mixing this style with new ideas - They will tell you to painstakingly stick to the exact farmers lego blocks. These dutch farmers who where trying to emulate the place of their births architecture in wild Africa. These purist will tell you a lot. But then, to be absolutely brutal, im not a purist.
Cape dutch for me is a mengelmoes of influence a potjiekos of styles and flavor. The most impressive homestead ive seen is the one that has a cape malay style building right next to a cape dutch gable end structure. The 2 cultures that had huge influence on cape town and its architectural style heritage quietly sharing space. The playfulness of the architectural style for me is contrary to the zealot like approachbof yhe zeali6 purists. This applies to new homes being designed and built, obviously the old homesteads must have there heritage kept.
