 Search for a home on any device, any time, anywhere. Private Property, a home for everyone. A home on afternoon express brought to you by Private Property. My name is Danilo Acquisto. Now, if you have not been following this exciting series yet, where have you been? Well, a home in South Africa's premier interior design reality competition. And our design duos are busy transforming three cluster homes at the Eye of Africa estate in Johannesburg into lavish living spaces, one room at a time. They aim to get the nod from the judges at the end of the competition and be chosen as the winners of 100,000 rand. But you also make a difference. The design duos that receives the most online votes from you, the viewer, will receive an additional cash prize of 20,000 rand. So if one duo impresses both the judges and you at home, they could walk away with a combined 120,000 rand. But at the end of the day, the biggest winner is the one lucky viewer who wins their choice of one of the homes decorated by our design duos, a prize valued at over 3 million rand. And if you missed us last week, let's catch up very quickly. The design duos are busy working on their spare rooms and it's an exciting showcase of out-of-the-box thinking. Previously on Winner Home, our design duos worked their fingers to the bone to deliver exquisitely designed spare rooms. Team House and Leisure were supremely confident in their walk-in closet and home-office space. What do you think would be some of the criticisms for this challenge? That is too perfect. Team VC's relaxation room had the judges getting very comfortable. It's really cool. I like it. It's quite a cool room. And Team Habitat's library turned all the right pages for our guest judge. It's so rich. It's so busy. It's so... team too much. I love the too muchness. In the end, the judges couldn't find fault with one room in particular. This is just absolute heaven. The only negative is that it's not mine. And so Team House and Leisure pick up their second consecutive win, leaving the other duos feeling a little disappointed. How dare they win again? There's a lot of pressure on the design duos as Team VC and Team Habitat want to break Team House and Leisure's winning streak, while Banel and Seppo are feeling the heat to maintain their position as competition leaders. Could the next challenge be the game changer? Contestants, welcome to your next challenge. The next 10 days are probably going to be the most difficult of your design careers thus far. That's because this week's challenge is a double challenge. You'll have just 10 days to coordinate tiling, paint, base and installations, toilet installations and more to create two show-stopping bathrooms. Both your master bathroom and your guest bathroom need to be completed by deadline. Contestants, good luck. Go forth and design. Double bathroom challenge. Sure. I mean, we've never done bathrooms before. That's going to be double trouble. I mean, double the nerve, double the drama and trying to get it all together as best as we can. That's going to be quite tough. What do you think? Yeah, but we're going to just break it into two. So, Leisure's going to do the guest loo and I'm going to do the master loo. So, we'll try and see how everything works together nicely. We are worried now about our budget because we feel like it's a little bit too small for two bathrooms, considering that we need, like, when I have ideas of dropping walls and... I know right. Plunge boxes. And building a new plan box, so we get that, that won't all fit into what we currently have. Our designed duos each get a cash budget of 300,000 rand, which they then subdivide into a budget per room. Now, this is the budget over and above the incredible, generously sponsored products from Caesarstone, Plaskon, Grundig and Bulkatex, as well as their gibret and grower products for the bathrooms. In fact, the duos receive over 300,000 rand and sponsored items, of which 140,000 is for the sandware and taps alone. So, the cash budget for the bathrooms is to cover all other design elements and is allocated from their overall budget for the house. They'll have to work very carefully to ensure that there's enough money for the remaining rooms. Team VC plans to spend 31,000 rand from their cash budget while Team Habitat has allocated 40,000 rand for the bathrooms. Team House and Leisure originally budgeted 27,000 rand for the non-sponsored items, but with the 3,000 rand that they won in the previous challenge, their new budget is 30,000 rand. So, with those budget sets, all that's led is to design, design, design those bathrooms. We're meeting up with Tian and we're looking for tiles. This duo is really cool to work with. Great energy. They don't take themselves too seriously and they have fun. And ultimately, this is what this process is about and I think it's showing in their room concepts that they have a sense of humour. Tian, so this is what we're thinking of. We want to keep the space still light and quite warm for the owners. Perfect. Also just to contrast the colours, we'd like to go for something that imitates wood. Neutrals that kind of like fit in the bit of your pestles. Okay, perfect. So what options do we have here? The options we had was that towel over there which is way out of our price range and this one over here which is not really my favourite. But you guys won the previous challenge from last week. So you've got extra cash that you could put towards your favourite tile. Okay, let's forget about that. I think this vanilla nore and like meter yellow would work so well. Yeah, that's lovely. It's a nice combination. And everything else will be white so it'll fit in perfectly. For meter, the strength is their combination of teppos, technical background and interior design and Banerle's autistic vision for rooms and it's the combination of those two that stay winning formula. We are at Plascon Spaces for a colour consultation today and we're super excited because we love colour. So we are doing bathrooms and we have that colour planetic. So what we are concerned about is more of a moisturised space and stuff like that. So we want walls on our walls and other issues that you know we are facing. So I'm using all white marble kind of looking tiles to brighten up the space but we are looking for a colour that will complement the white. So is it a small space? Is it a sunny space? So the space doesn't have a lot of light coming in. It's kind of like small so we want to use like a bright colour in order to like at least brighten it up. Yes, lift up the space. So I looked at more of what's that colour, of your bleached meadow. Well that's a beautiful aqua colour. If you don't get a lot of light it might be a bit dark but if you want that depth and that cosy environment then most definitely go for that. And in the other bathroom we were also thinking of having a bit of a contrast as well. I was thinking maybe something similar to this, rolling hills. Rolling hills, it's more aqua. It's a beautiful colour option and it's quite complementary. You can actually use the colours both in the same space and then work together beautifully. So since you've decided on the colours do you want to get a test apart? Awesome, let's do it. Kitchens and bathrooms by Plaskon is specially formulated for those spaces and Team VC are happy to get samples before they commit. Paint in the bathrooms is also quite a contentious issue so I think with Nero's advice we're going to be able to use it carefully and effectively so that it lasts longer. And here are the test apart. These are your 250 meals. Let's mix the colours. What does it do? How does it work? Oh those are, if you notice, those are all the different tubes with all the different colours. Those are called colourants. So the colourants are poured into the machine and they go down into the tube and everything is formulated according to the system. So every hardware store that provides that sells Plaskon has this machine and they have this machine as well. Awesome. So there won't be any colour difference. Great. The kitchen and bathroom is a beautiful product. It has silver technology and you can mix it in any of the different colours that you want. You can paint it on your walls and your skirtings and your ceilings and you can paint it even on steel. If you have a cabinet in the bathroom and you just want to revamp it and it's melamine, you can apply melamine primer and apply the kitchen and bathrooms, which is stunning. And it's ten times washable. That's the most amazing part. We have our tester little bottle and we're going to try it out on our bathroom wall and see if it actually works in the space or not because of previous encounters. I hope it works. I hope it works. Yes, I hope this time it works. We've learned that. You don't want to make the room colour. Yeah. Grover, new experiences. Usually we'd be shopping for fabric, now we're shopping for tabs. And it's fabulous. You just have all these tabs, square ones, ones that save order, round tabs. Silver. Yes, I was. Yes, yes, charge it. That's what I was thinking while this guy's giving us a presentation. Welcome guys. My name is Khabi Sekani. I'm the Grover Libra Technical Expect. We offer all the different shapes that you're looking for. We've got the pin handles, we've got the cap handles, we've got the square handles. So it just goes with the look and feeling of your bathroom and how you want to design it. But remember when you're designing your bathroom, your tab needs to match your bath and your basins. So if you're going with a round, obviously you go with the round tabs. If you're going the square, you go with the square tabs and your bath also needs to match the tabs and the basins needs to match the tabs. And also guys, please bear in mind that as in South Africa, we're experiencing a drought and it's infected all over the world. So we need to make sure that the products we're picking we're responsible and we're playing our part. So we do have a variety of water saving products that you can choose from, you can have a look and enjoy the feeling and then design your own bathroom. Good luck. Renovations and designing of your bathrooms can be a mission. That's why it's perceived out there. But it's easy, you need to get the look, you need to get the feeling and also you need to choose the right product. We have different ratings across the world making sure that the world is green. With Growa, you have all the solutions to meet all those requirements within the industries that you're in. Remember, it's always minimum consumption and maximum enjoyment. What do you think about this? I love it, I absolutely love it. I love it too, I like the fact that these taps have an area underneath them. So green, so green. And what do you think about this joystick doohickey over here? Oh, it's also nice. It's visualized. I think this will definitely work. They're perfect. Brilliant, clean lines. Look at the shower head. You can see yourself, you can turn around. Turn on the tap. Love it. I love last-door ceramics showroom. It's absolutely stunning. So many beautiful spaces and I'm actually so inspired to do more with our bathroom. She's more inspired to take selfies. But still, it's beautiful. I love it, I love it, I love it. Yeah, I love it too. Since you couldn't have a bathtub in the guest bathroom, what do you think of this? I love this one, I really love it. What do you think of this one? We're looking for the perfect tub as Sample would phrase it. So that's like the perfect one we're going with right now. Perfection. And what do you think of the tub, the mixers? The mixers, I love this one. Yeah, I think this one looks better because of the rounded edges. And the height as well, it doesn't compete with the tub. Which is hard, true. Just really compromise it. Got it. OMG. Right by the door. Why would they put such a big, beautiful shower right by the door? Well, just like my light and grow lighting, it's the same situation at grow light. My word, I just wanted to charge it. Oh my word, talk about singing and dancing in the rain shower. Listen, seriously though, in the real estate industry, a well-designed bathroom can contribute significantly to the value of a home. So for the design deals, not only will this be a home, but it can also impact on the chances of winning that 100,000 and at the end of the competition. After the break, Team Habitat and Team Visi seek advice from their mentors. Don't go anywhere. Because if it doesn't improve people's lives, it isn't plus gone. Plus gone, designed for life. For a good reason. Welcome back to your favorite show on a Friday afternoon. It's Winner Home on Afternoon Express. And remember that hashtag, Winner Home. You can install for them as they have to design and complete both of their bathrooms in their cluster home. Fortunately though, they can focus their ideas by getting an objective opinion from their mentors. Eager to wash away the blues from the previous challenge, Team Habitat arranged a meeting with Amanda. We reached strategizing. Amanda's continually saying she needs to realize in, but I think if she has to realize in anymore... It'll remark my hairstyle and attitude. We're going to snap. Or we're going to snap. Sure, something's going to snap. Sure, Amanda. So who was learning out there? You feel a little bit like we're not winning. Like with the challenges before us. Looks like we need to re-strategize. We look at how we go. Okay, I'll tell you what I think. I definitely don't believe it's a case of you not winning. I know it's frustrating. I think what you need to do is have a very good look through the habitats we've given you. More minimalistic. Less cluttered look. Less objects. We'd like to add in that object to the max and then it ends up, I guess, over one. Yes, and I'm sure when you look at the images of the completed project or room, you can see that you could have done away with X, Y and Z. A little back of that. So let's look at some of your ideas for the bathrooms. To start off with the bathrooms, our biggest thing is the pageant. Yes, yes. At least make an open plan. Like, if you look at that image there. Yes. And it's like, how do we achieve such a look? And we spend, I guess, most of the budget on glass. It's going to be very difficult because you've still got quite a lot of the rest of the house to do. You've seen how much it costs. That's really careful. You know, we always just, with our ideas, think so over the top that people go, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Your budget, ma'am, is not that big. We're not going to be able to afford all that fur. No, you aren't. You know, at least we go for a speck towel. To cut down on the car. I think we should definitely look at doing that. We end up with a lounge. Correct. Or a kitchen. Disastrous. Or that pool, everyone. My house is complete without an ounce of the kitchen. Yes. We wanted to continue the animal theme into the bathrooms. Yes, you need to do that, definitely. And for example, you would leave all those objects out, not necessary at all. This is okay. Remember, clean and simplistic. Having so, that's what we need to stick to. To. And let's see some more. And we'd want to bring in the gold element or set into the bathroom. But very subtly. And no chandeliers. No. But chandeliers. You've used one chandelier. I think it's enough. You need to look at alternatives. But what did Amanda say? About chandeliers in the bathroom. She said, do your homework. And leave the lads alone. She said, I've got enough lads. For now. We're at Gerrit and we like in toilet heaven. Welcome to Gerrit. My name is Dorian. Head of marketing. We're going to be selecting products from our range. And it all starts here with the plumbing. Please come and have a look at the product that we have to show you today. This is a concealed system. All you'll see is the flush plate. You have the small flush for small business. And the big flush for big business. This is the thing. We take plumbing very simple. It's like a whole lot of action that goes behind what you do in that. I'd like to show you how the product works. So small flush for 3 litres. And the 6 litre flush is for big business. Our product is also water-saving. That's why we have a 3 and 6 litre flush. The other beauty about the Gerrit is completely room free. So if I demonstrate that to you over here there's no room whatsoever which means you don't need to use all those cleaning detergents underneath where all germs hide. And as you can see the product is wall-hung. So underneath, great for tiling. Easy to clean. It's guaranteed to take 400 kilos. Some of you are trying to figure how many kilos that is. Basically if you can fit through the toilet door you can fit on the toilet. All two of you can fit on the toilet. It's important to select the toilet because you then set the tone for the bathroom. So there are different styles from a shaped point of view as well as functionality. All the Gerrit toilets have room free which is quite an important feature. It makes it germ free with no area for germs to collect. We also make sure that when you hang the toilet off the floor creates a clean space which allows for extended tiling which in small bathrooms you'll note it creates an essence of more space which will be important to these duos because the spaces that they are working with are rather small. This is our satirio range top of the range. Then we've got the shower drainage here. It's a shower channel which will be great in your showers. We then have a more square look called Xeno2. It comes in two colours the white and over here we also have the wood grain. The mirrors are also great to consider. When we come through to this section it's more mid-market. Here we have the square icon range and over here we have the round icon compacting size so it's great for small spaces. Another option for shower drainage but I prefer the other one. Here it shows you renovation options so you understand that Gerrit can go in a dry wall as well as into brick wall not a problem. Another compact toilet also great for small spaces. This area we have the smile range as you test driving it. And here we have our more upmarket toilets that clean you with water. Quite a nice feature if you could fall in. Walking through the showroom, the Gibraltar showroom, I mean it's like a dream. Everything is just yes, yes. It's so difficult to make a decision. Sure, especially when I make a decision and you say no, no that's not in the budget. Last time we checked Tim H. L. only had two members. Meryl Meryl on the out wall made this team disappear. It's ours. In hours. Thank you for the different taste. See you at the judging room. I love this one. Oh, you love the sandwich? Yes. Look at it, I love the seat. I like the fact that it's a soft clothes and it can take about 400 kgs. Oh, okay, Mr. Now at all. 100, 200, 400, we should prove it most clearly. Here comes Linda by suffering. And I'm very impressed that that toilet could bear all our weight. And your personality too. We're so lucky that we have met with Now and she's helped us and given us test pots so that we can go and test it and after testing it we realised that this is not the colour we want to go with. So, luckily before we meet Annemarie we have time to change our minds quickly. Tell me, have you sorted out the bathrooms? Do you know what is happening in your bathrooms? Let's look at the magazine. I want to show you what I just saw. I am sure you've got your inspiration already. But I also have mine. Now I can't take over. You want to do it yourself, tell me. Show me yours and I'll show you mine. Okay. Let me see yours. You got the correct one. That's perfect. So, look at the tiles that I saw. They're a little bit marble like yours. But in the bathroom, I'm taking off the shower. You should do a little bit of a herringbone technique in there. And we also like the black and white look. Yes. It's fantastic. It really is. I must say I'm also keen on it. So what apart from it? Just talk me through it. Talk me through what you're going to do with these marble tiles. So the color that we are looking for is misted down that we are going to use. It's kitchen and bathrooms from Plaskern. So I think it's going to prove that French look in the bathroom. And create a very nice contrast. Yes. Because I think that's what we're looking for. It's almost a French khaki. That's very clever. It should look very, very nice with the marble. For our guest bathroom, we wanted to do something similar that talks to what's happening in our guest bedroom. And for soft finishes, we decided to go with a importantly convinced me to go with something pink. So for anything soft, we'd go with a slight pink. It's the color of the season you spot on. With the necessary guidance, the design duos are ready to turn their bathroom visions into reality and are getting their little rubber ducks in a row. Still ahead, the designs begin to take shape with a creative collaboration and some shopping. Plus, I'll be announcing the winner of last week's bi-weekly competition. Could it be you? Stay right where you are. In proud partnership with Winner Home, the best stone is Caesar Stone. This hashtag WinnerHome on afternoon express. As I designed duos, aim to create sophisticated, modern and spa-like bathrooms. We'll be wrapping into their creativity by collaborating with local designers which is precisely what Teamhouse and Leisure are doing. We're at Nikolas's and we're planning a collaboration piece with him of having a bubble effect with lights. So what we'd like to create is actually an idea, an impression of bubbles floating from the ceiling and we're thinking of one of your pendants. Do you think it's possible? I think actually if I look at the design that you've drawn here, one of the great pendants to use is the copper-fitting one which will actually give a great feeling towards the bubble effect. Nikolas, with your coat, what are the color options? Because we want everything to just disappear into the ceiling. Well, we have different color options such as the black and the white where the white would be a great option to create the bubble effect because it will disappear into your ceiling and the copper will even stand out more. Aside from your pendants, what other products do you have? Our designs that we do this we do have a toilet stand in black, white and copper as well where you can actually just hold your toilet paper next to the beautiful spots in the bathroom and then also what we do have is we have loose toilet stand holders so it's actually portable, movable and you can have it on your left or your right. And with your bathroom accessories, what's the lead time? It's easy for us that are not made for to being a light. It takes about 5-10 working days and in lights we usually say 10-15 working days. Oh, we are so pressed for time we don't have that much time to wait can we work around the plan that we can get them sooner than that? We can definitely make a plan. We have a few lights in stock which we don't have, we will definitely be able to make for you. So while we are discussing our lighting installation finally it's getting a bit carried away picking all these accessories bathroom stuff I don't know which budget I feel like you're painting me as the bad guy So we are shopping for towels and someone decided to play black man patili I don't know, right? Why so serious? It's shopping after all Let's go I have to find her Where is she? I'm gonna find her Let's see her There you are There you are So we need to select the towels quickly because we don't have time I think I'm gonna go this way Let's divide and conquer Last time you disappeared out of nowhere Trust me, just do your thing I'll do my thing No problem And for a while we were looking for towels and I just found her looking herself at the mirror Cause I'm cute Not again Oh no What are you doing now? Well, I absolutely think this mirror is like the bomb Really? Come, follow me Look at this colours I think it's a bit too light Wow, this is the one What do you think? Check it out It blends in nicely Beautiful Look at this one and I think it's gonna stand out with the black colour So let's go place the order Let's go place the order Yes Welcome, Haraj Thank you so much for coming on side As you can see, we've been doing quite some Opening up Bang, bang, walls down Okay, so now we need to decide how we're gonna incorporate the Caesar stone Into our bathroom But we've made enough space for it We're gonna have our basin this side which is a floating basin a gibbered floating basin and then we want to Caesar stone Down to the top And then there's gonna be a pillar built here which we'd like covered in some Caesar stone Yes, and then in our moulin fog Caesar stone And then if you just mind to stick So it's a bit of a war zone She's very flat But this is where we plan to do the shower So we're gonna have a big shower here coming down the way Right, so your shower I mean quite a big shower, so I would suggest maybe let's put a nice bench there Caesar stone bench so you can have a sit there and shave your legs Sure, yes, for the girls You need a leg out Yes for our girls And then also maybe on this side for your vanity let's put a floating shower for two up Like some shelves on that wall Shelf so you can pick your stuff there on the side That's it Team Habitat has already created a door between the guest bedroom and the second bathroom To complete that vision they're considering toning down their initial design ideas We decided to park the guest bathroom with the zebra and the Caesar stone It might be Jungle fever again So we thought maybe we keep it playing with the tiles and then play a lot in the main master bathroom So the master bathroom is gonna be the stone playground Monument Your pillar, you know if it's gonna be square around it Well, I'm hoping for a square Yeah, cause all our taps and that we've gone for a square shape Probably the better option as well I mean it's much easier to do that, it looks better So we just have to square Yes, and then once that's installed then we'll come out and do a measurement for you again So thank you very much It really helps when you come onto site So shouldn't you get that? No worries, thank you Sure, I hope so, we've been losing So I hope to win this round We have to We have to While our design duos compete for rewards and a big prize of their own the real winner in this competition is you To enter, simply visit privateproperty.co.z and vote for your favourite design duo This is your entry into the bi-weekly giveaway with fantastic prizes up for grabs as well as automatically entering you into the draw for the grand prize Your choice of one of the three fully designed cluster homes at the Eye of Africa Estates, a prize worth more than 3 million rand So I'm happy today to announce that the winner of our last bi-weekly prize plus campaign to the value of 5,000 rand is Sylvia Mochapi from Centurion, congratulations You voted for your favourite team Team VC, so very, very well done to you Sylvia. Now the next prize for our bi-weekly giveaway is a Growers Smart Control rain shower system worth, listen to this over 11,000 rand So head over to privateproperty.co.z and enter for your chance to win big now As we've seen so far, running a full design project is hectic but what's it like to run an estate? After the break we get down to those nitty gritties in our weekly private property advice segment so you stay right where you are and I'll see you after this cuppa Because if it doesn't improve people's lives, it isn't Plaskon, Plaskon designed for life Search for a home on any device anytime, anywhere Private property a home for everyone Welcome back to Winner Home on Afternoon Express on SABC3 Now on this series of Winner Home we featured some of the most beautiful and pristine estates around South Africa There's a lot of work that goes into running these estates behind the scenes and in showing that everything goes according to plan Today we have Andrew Thompson, director of development for Elan Property Group in studio to go us a behind the scenes look at the day-to-day running of an estate Welcome to our loft Thanks very much Dan, great to be here Andrew, let's first unpack your story Tell us about what you do because I've never heard of a position like this and it's a really exciting position to be in Dan, I've been with the Elan Property Group for around about 12 years now It's a hospitality background working through various hotels in Southern Africa and with that expertise join the Property Development Company the Elan Property Group based in Durban, Quasulina and we've had the opportunity to develop with WBHO an estate called some BTE Co-State and Blightdale Coastal Estate just north of Durban So they're beautiful, what does it mean to develop an estate I mean like are you high-level thinking about the ideas of these estates or does an investor come to you and say how does it all work? Our plan is to go out and identify land in key destinations to create new destinations where people will travel to and gated communities like some BTE Co-State like Blightdale Coastal Estate they're catalytic by nature large-scale developments an example of Blightdale Coastal Estate is a thousand hectares, three kilometres of coastline 320 hectares of indigenous forest in a beautiful destination great weather and unlocking 20,000 housing opportunities so the back end of it is really about estate management as you go through your zoning processes you appoint your professional teams you create the vision of what the development is going to be and how it's going to be created and eventually get to a point where you launch out into the market space and launch and gather momentum into sales on the development itself To be honest, it sounds almost quite corporate in the way that it's set up because you have to consider all these different elements but it's always about the person that's going to be living there I think it's a very important part of your job is to consider who's going to be living there and it might be me, it might be one of our viewers who gets to win this home and they're always considering what kind of lifestyle do I want so how do you go about preventing or ensuring that the person that's going to live on the estate gets a lifestyle that they love and enjoy without feeling like they're confined and restricted to all these different boundaries I think certainly we've moved in advance in terms of how estates were done historically we look at lifestyle opportunities not just purely about security it's not just purely about the vision and the quality of the gay task what's very key is the internal offering so we look at community centers we look at country clubs, we do look at golf we look at mountain biking, trail running facilities but you want to ensure that there's a safe and secure environment that people live in one thing that's also very important to consider is the person managing that estate who is that person and should we really consider them when it comes to living on an estate manager or the appointment of that estate manager is absolutely key they play a role of being the municipal manager or the mayor of the city as such do they knock on your door and bring cookies and things and influence you to their family if they're really good they will do that most certainly but I think the estate manager of today especially on the large scale volume developments like we do you could start attracting facilities management companies you could look at hospitality groups in order to play that role it's critical that the estate manager whoever is overseeing the estate obviously carries your brand well and ensures what is promised through that estate living is the quality and the lifestyle that you as an end user are wanting to partake in how does it all work behind the scenes on a day to day basis with these estates? I think there are quite a few chimneys in terms of call it the departments within the estate and those departments are absolutely critical so levy collection in order to attract the revenues the financial management of the estate is absolutely critical administration, operational management maintenance and even more so today conservation and how you manage the conservation aspect of the estate a lot of the estates are moving towards eco, green living environment we're looking at cashless societies we're looking at keyless societies we're looking at doing developments where there's frictionless access into the estate so that does come back to security but I think this conservation side of things is absolutely critical how you manage the fauna, the flora the small game species internal to your environment and how the people living on that estate can actually enjoy the living with the small game species surrounding our own properties I love that because as an end user I would definitely want to make sure that that's what you're considering as much as I'm in it for the security and all the facilities and the perfectly run pristine grasses or whatever it might be I'm really interested in those sort of things it makes it personal to who I am as an individual so there's so much going on behind the scenes I mean excuse me, I've got terrible puns half the time always and so it sounds like a very busy estate of affairs thanks for all of your advice today so there you have it, it's clearly a lot of work that goes into keeping the estate pristine and running it's the estate of affairs as you know one of the most pristine and well run estates in South Africa is the Eye of Africa estate and on this season of Winner Home you stand a chance of winning a beautiful home in this estate, all you have to do is log on to privateproperty.co.z and answer a very easy question now after the break I take a look at the progress that each of our design duos have made at the halfway mark of their bathroom challenge welcome back to Winner Home on Afternoon Express exclusively on SABC3 and we hope you've been tweeting away with that hashtag Win A Home now the first stage of the bathroom design challenge has seen the design duos getting advice of various bathroom product brands now it feels like Christmas in August as the sponsored products arrive on site in their master bedroom Team House and Leisure have had a large planter box built to separate the sleeping space from the en suite they plan to clad it in Caesar sewed for a luxurious look our planter box is in now and we're quite happy about how it's turning out so far but we might not have plans we need to have those plans we can cut out like your lights no so yes it needs to look like a planter box at the end because that's like the whole idea of having it there otherwise it might as well just go oh yes over at Team VC's house this great excitement as their Gilbert toilet systems arrive for installation hostasia we're very excited this is not small business it's big business come we're so excited for all our things being delivered if you look at behind the scenes of what's going on the technology that's going behind those bathrooms it's actually a good investment honestly speaking they're really really really technological Gro is here to deliver our staff and we are so excited we can't even wait for the delivery ban to stop our delivery tab is here are you ready are you ready I'm thinking there I can grab a tub on my own and think fail I can't do this and this one is screaming again anymore I'm like what's happening now I'm not going to carry help help but then luckily the guys are here to help us offload the bathtub into the house so they made our life so much easier I was not meant to carry anything in life as the last boxes leave the delivery van another exciting delivery is happening inside the bathroom which will set the stage for the rest of the installations the planter box is being clad in its elegant Mont Blanc Caesar stone and team house and leisure have a firm idea of how to arrange their bathroom we want our bathtub sent her to the plant box because that's our statement piece that's like the first thing we see as you walk into the bathroom look at you meanwhile team Habitat have a meeting with their contractor to discuss the ensuite bathroom we're in the master bedroom with James our contractor James from Krundall but we call him Jamesy this rugby guy with rugby arms we were James we love your work let's scrum hacka ta hacka ta we better win this challenge no we better win this challenge no we had a good spread with James but he did good work he has been working hard in that bathroom so we really love James and what he's doing we had to hack it out no we had to this wall is amazing the last time we got here we were just bricks it's been hard work we took a bit of time and I mean you can see breaking down the walls created a lot of extra spice and volume here and we're loving it it's looking good and I see you got the bar extra large do you think it will fit James? look I mean if we can fit you here in a double D bra I'm sure we can make it next thing he's in my double Ds that I was accessorizing my head to where James leave my bra out of this leave my tartars alone and get back to the plumbing for that beautiful Grover bathtub Grover gibber red flash three percent bathroom I mean it's a marriage of just Thai and brands that we're gonna make sure it's so nice so nice it's lovely to imagine relaxing in a stylish bathroom but these designed viewers have no time to chill I paid a visit on site to have a look at the progress at the halfway mark team VC's big ideas for their bathroom have hit a little snag the impressive herringbone pattern they want to do requires more tiles than they've bought and budget is a problem you two look very stressed at the moment I mean what's going on in there? so here's the thing we're trying to make the tiles work because of the pattern that we're doing we're doing a herringbone for the whole shower but we're gonna shut tiles so we're gonna try and make herringbone only in one wall in the floor and make the other walls like straight so that we can have enough tiles because if we're already over budget and we don't want it to overspend more so what are the big dreams and visions for both of your different bathrooms? in the main bathroom we've gone with a marble look and feel marble and black and white so it looks very classical but modern yeah but it has those elements of raw type of concrete jungle because if you look at marble and other stuff these are all quads that are from the earth in our guest bathroom we've decided to carry through the same theme in the guest bedroom we also in our main bathroom have beautiful gold touches and obviously we have a lovely mirror my favourite thing and all of that is gonna bring the wow into it so we don't have one exact statement piece but all together it's gonna make for an entire wall cool we've approached the halfway mark there's still a little bit of time what still needs to be done, how far are you how's the timing going? I don't really know that we are good planners there's still a lot to do there's still a lot like a bathroom is not that simple yeah definitely I mean generally bathrooms takes three to four weeks in a normal environment so this is definitely a stretch and a push there's two bathrooms so you can imagine well talking of two Team House and Leisure have won the first two challenges so the press is on to maintain that winning streak Hi Danilo you guys look very excited what's going on in here he's the excited one tell me everything I want to know the juicy details I was excited until we were told that we need to get three more boxes of towels because our towels are not gonna be enough so that's quite stressful because we don't have the budget for that and then also our night installation is already up there is a collaboration with Lumen they came in this morning to do the installation and he's still stressing me about the levels he wants one to go down it's cause it needs to create a bubble effect I'm like you'll deal with this I'm done stressing about it now listen I'm very protective over our viewers and one of them could potentially win a home and they might even choose your home so sell these bathrooms to us what are your big plans for the guest bathroom as well as your master bathroom here for the master bathroom what's happening is this is gonna be our planter box so the plants are gonna, trees are gonna grow up yeah yeah that's huge okay like a screen for a bit of privacy between the bedroom and the bathroom and it's clouded in a scissor stone in a scissor stone how amazing is that can't get better than that and then the same stone that we're using here it repeats itself in the shower and around the window for the guest bathroom so we're continuing from the guest bedroom where it's curated like there's a lot of art happening there it's almost like a mini gallery alright so you guys have won both previous challenges I mean what's gonna be the grand idea is to make sure you win a third one because it's really gonna take a lot of convincing from those judges we do believe that they are gonna be quite impressed because we took like that risk of managing the master bedroom with the bathrooms which is not really that much of a common thing and we broke a wall yeah we took down a wall little do they know that team Abbotat have also broken down a wall and have made bold design choices eager for a win this duo isn't afraid to get their hands dirty we've arrived in the jungle for team Abbotat at the halfway mark and it seems like lots of work is being done whoo you too be a brat you can stop that for a second yelza the dust whoo you're telling me about the dust now that the dust is settling both figuratively and literally I mean what's the big plan, how are you guys doing at the halfway mark shoo well as you can see it's a wall zone but we are ready getting the spaces ready to be tiled wall to wall so once it's like basically with the desk then we get to the real work where we install the toilets, the gibbera toilets we install the bath basins and the grover taps beautiful square taps dazzling all you need is some bubbles and bubble bath I know you guys love pretty things so what's the big dream vision plan for the two different bathrooms by the guest bathroom we want to do a zebra crossing theme bringing black and white tiles so going from that zebra guest bedroom into a zebra crossing into the library black and white and with gold absolutely always the main bathroom we're going to use a lot of caesar stone absolutely we're going to have a talk yes we're going to have a shower thing out of caesar stone we're going to put caesar stone in the shower which is a big rain shower a lower shower head so when you bath in there you are the master it's the lion's den with a big bath tab we're ready with our outfits to jump in the bath we're just waiting for the bath to be put in and for guys who tend to go over budget every single time you've got outfits, you've got glasses are you guys going to come in on budget this is more construction attire to block the dust from our this is to make sure when I go out after this it's BOOM budget is tight like my panty land and if it gets any tighter it's about a snap but we just on the we just on the budget although all three bathrooms seem far from finished the design duos just need to maintain a good pace of work and we will see brilliant bathrooms at the end of this challenge I knew it a double challenge means double the drama for our design duos now with so much to do in so little time and their budget almost spent the designers might be flying off their high end bathroom handles next week we reveal those bathrooms and it's up to the judges to decide which duos designs are hot hot hot and which are merely tepid the big question is can team house and leisure clock up a third win or has the time finally come for team VC or team habitat to be showered in glory you don't want to miss out on the action next week right here on Winner Home on Afternoon Express from me Danilo Cristo it's time for me to say goodbye have a great weekend and good night bye