 Welcome back. Yes, it's time for Winner Home on Afternoon Express. We follow three very talented young designers as they transform three empty properties at the Valdivia State into dream homes using finishes provided by Caesar Stone and Plaskon and at the end of it all you guys get a chance to be entered into the grand prize where you could win a one of those properties to the value of three million rand. Yesterday we saw our design contestants meeting with their mentors to discuss plans for their bathrooms. They've been hard at work and with only two days left to finish. Let's head over to Valdivia to see how far they've come. I don't know about the other guys. I heard they're a bit behind but as you can see everything looks perfect and I'm loving it. I have a few final touches to look after and some cleaning to do, but I think let's just do the final touches. So these are beautiful marble holders for anything that you might need in the bathroom. Just the final two. Right here. I've always wanted to design a vanity like this and Caesar Stone made it possible. So I collaborated with Crip Creations for the vanity underneath it that's floating against the wall. I love the angles, the color, the base of it. It's amazing and it brings the whole space together. Final day for the bathrooms and I'm nowhere where I thought I'd be. Like if you asked me last week if I'd be here I wouldn't have said I'd be at this stage. Right now I still need to get my mirrors on. The shower I'm standing on is not tall yet. So that's like one of my biggest worries and I've had to make a few sacrifices with my design like the screen that's coming in here. It's no longer going to be the one that I had designed initially because of time. While Minante still seems relatively calm about the situation, his mentor Bal Bellingham who paid a surprise visit is less impressed. This is not where I thought it was going to be at this stage. I thought I was coming in for final touches. Yeah, I'm not, I am, I am shocked. I am really shocked. What is the big hold up? What do I mean? Honestly, I was supposed to be a team to add in final touches, to add in, you know, plants, all the final things and it's now... Like my biggest worry from the beginning was the tiling. I've been trying to push that to be done but that's the thing that's been holding us back because even the board can't go in because we've seen it's way for the tiling to be finished. So is the mosaic the problem? Yeah, because even now we still need to wait for it to dry and clean it up and sort out there on top. I can't waste my time coming through, driving through for nothing. Honestly, I can't. So wait through from here. I mean, what do we do now? We're going to miss our deadline. We're just going to hope that the viewers love you. Which I think they do, but I mean, no one's going to see what your vision was. You spend so much time planning this, painstakingly planning this and no one's going to see it now. I'm devastated. I honestly am. I'm worried. I'm concerned. I also feel bad. I feel bad permanently. To a degree I feel that I... I thought he had it. I thought he had it in the bag. We went through everything. We made all the decisions, the stylistic decisions. We planned it and I handed it over and I really... I thought it would happen. I really did. Maybe they still hope. Maybe they can still pull us together in a few hours. I'm not optimistic though. And again, I'm just... I feel... I'm devastated. I'm devastated. Our plan is to get the shower... the shower floors as done as soon as possible. And then the tiling is done that I'm happy about. Because that means that my part can then go in. And then with this, it's just a matter of waiting for the music to try out. And I'm going to be having my class go on. And my vanity and the steel stand are ready. It's just a matter of putting it in. To be honest, at the moment, I'm not sure if I'm going to be done on time. So, it's very worrying. I must be honest with you. While Rudolph isn't much further ahead than Menendley, his bath and shower have been fitted and he's outsourcing the finishing touches. Oh wow. Only two days left. Gents and Lady Menendley better pick up his game in this competition if he's hoping to obviously win this competition. This afternoon we are once again having a private property chat where we focus on a beautiful property and its surroundings as well. So as well as we're going to be focusing today on specific rooms in it, today being the bathroom. So with us to do this chat and to join us in the loft today is franchisee and principal of Real Nets Durbanville, Cape Town, Christine Appel. Welcome to our loft. Thank you. Lovely being here. Thank you. I always ask all of our guests that are involved in property, could you take our loft and sell it for millions? Yes. Give it to me. Oh, I'll be glad. Fantastic. Christine, it's so good having you here in the loft. And I've been so looking forward to having these conversations because there are, I think a lot of stresses that come with buying new properties and private property has got amazing, amazing places to find for a new neighbourhood in people's lives. So which one are we looking at today? We are looking at the Wellgefonden Estate in Durbanville. It is a, I would say a medium sized estate, 168 properties with more than four hectares of parks inside the estate. So it's a lifestyle estate. It's man security and it's very good value for money and that's what makes it so attractive. That's the place where children still play in the streets. Get there on the summer evening, 7th City. The streets are alive. Mummy don't have to worry about little one going to a friend, couple of houses away. It's safe. Also it's beautiful, beautiful views outside living. The owners there are very proud of their estate and then also about the future, plan developments in the area. A lot of emphasis placed on education. What is planned for the near future is a primary school. Shortly after that we'll follow a secondary school and what very few people know about at this stage is that there is a university being planned and all within a five kilometre range of the estate. Wow, so it is investment time. People better start getting their assets liquidated to get ready for this, but which property specifically are we looking at in Valcher Fonden? We are looking at a property which is quite large, 520 square metre property and it is in a very, very prime position in the estate. It borders on the... It's beautiful. It is beautiful. It borders right on the park of the estate with unlimited views of the Burland Mountains. So it is absolutely prime, prime, prime and as it looks from the outside, so it is on the inside a huge emphasis on design and on quality of finishes. Okay, so let's talk through some of those because I've seen that they've got an incredible kitchen and a cellar. Yes. The kitchen, let's start with the kitchen. Very well equipped. I think it's any women's dream. It's part of an open plan setup with dining room, living room, adjacent, bright, enclosed, bright patio. Just for the cook of the house, there is induction cooking and gas cooking and there are three ovens, of which one is a steam oven. Oh, it's my dream. It's an absolute dream. Yes, isn't it? Isn't it? And then just adjacent to that, which is actually part of the kitchen is the scullery, which offers a walk-in-cool room. As one client who I had through the house asked me where she's going to put her double fridge and I said, but you don't need it, why would you need it? And so it's absolutely, the extras are there that you normally won't find in a house. Also, there's this beautiful little wine cellar and from the cellar, if you really want to cool it, or the cellar is cool enough, but if you really want to have cold wine, you take it to the cooler room. The cooler room. That is so nifty and handy. So it is absolutely lovely. Absolutely lovely. So our contestants are currently working in the bathrooms. Well, two of them are working, and then the other one hasn't finished quite just yet, but they're very important rooms in the house. The bathroom in this property is beautiful too. Yes, the bathroom is... Actually, I'm talking now of the ensuite bathroom of the main bedroom. The whole main bedroom setup is a suite, comprising of the study, the main bedroom, a huge dressing room and then this wonderful, beautiful bathroom. It's a spacious bathroom. There's a travertine seam in this bathroom. Oh, okay. Yes, everything travertine, from the floor to the ceiling, spa bath, there's the toilet with a bidet and then you've got double vanities and a large shower and underfloor heating. Electrical towel rails. Wow, so it's designed beautifully. It's gone into all the little details and just taken into consideration who would be inside that bathroom, making it a space that is welcoming, that is friendly, that is warm, at the same time, it's also homely, which I think is great inspiration for our design contestants. And it's your lifestyle for the owners of the house. Exactly. Let's talk a bit about the area because I'm very interested in the investment side of property and the market seems to be doing all sorts of things in South Africa and you mentioned the study of safety within the estate, which does elevate the price slightly if it does, but maybe try and justify for us and explain to us what the property market is doing in a place like Durbanville because, I mean, anybody who's looking to start to maybe invest in a property, whether it be for investment or for living in, wants to know that they are choosing something that is going to have a future plan, that is going to add value to the investment. So what is the property market doing there? Is it a viable place to buy property? Yes, we find that all the time, after the drop in 2008 to 2010, it is as if the market just taken off from where it has stopped. It didn't fall. It was as if there was never a standstill. What's the reason? It just moved on. A popularity. It's good value. People move there. People live there. It's a place where families can live. You have all the beautiful wine farms around. It's a lifestyle. You're part of the city, yet you're not in the city. And what we find currently is demand exceeds supply. Good properties are not readily available, and when it comes on the market, it gets scratched up. Yeah, very, very quickly. So yes, it's a well-priced property gets sold, just like that. But then a property that is not well-priced will still stay on the market. Yeah, true. But the current situation, it does push the price up. Awesome. Christine, thank you so much for all your insights. I really appreciate it. I'm feeling inspired. This house sounds beautiful. It's going to get snapped up like this, I'm sure. Thank you. Remember that you guys can also head over to privateproperty.co.z and vote for your favorite design contestant's bathroom, the ones that have been complete. By casting a vote, you stand a chance of winning paint from Plaskon to the value of 5,000 rand. You can also be automatically placed into the grand prize draw, where you could win one of those completed apartments at the Valdivia State worth more than 3 million rand. Winner Home is proudly brought to you by privateproperty in association with Netbank. We'll be right back after this.