 Back, it's time for Winner Home on Afternoon Express, the show where you stand a chance of winning a luxury apartment at Vol De Ville in the Cape Winelands, valued at more than 3 million rand. It's halfway through the first challenge and Danielo is standing by with our young design contestants. Alright, so it's been one week since our three design contestants were tasked with their first room to complete the guest bedroom where hopefully I will be staying. With only four days left to completely finish the room, the pressure is now building. How far have they come? How are they getting along with their mentors? We're joined by our three design contestants, Joanne Minentler as well as Rudolf. So Minentler, I want to start with you, dude. How is your relationship with Boll going? She's quite a strict lady. I wouldn't say she's strict, I would just say she's not afraid to share her opinion and be bold about it and for me that's a positive because that forms that transparent relationship between the two of us which leads to us being able to get things done quicker so that decisions get done much more quicker. So hopefully that is going to work for you. Your sort of like sort of chilled out laid back style with her sort of we need to get things done kind of style will bring something together quite beautifully. Yeah, so that together comes in very well. Good. So you guys are already getting going with your guest bedroom and Rudolf, you've already been shopping for flooring and paint? I have, yes. Yeah, so my floors are in at the moment. They're looking great. I went with the oak flooring, mini mosaic style. So yeah, I'm quite excited to see how it comes out after I choose the final stain. The lady's not allowed in there because it's oak flooring, hey. Let's get to you, Joanne, you've also gone shopping for your paint and your flooring but you've already started painting as well so are you slightly further than Rudolf is? I hope so. I chose a paint that would fit through the floors because I also have timber flooring and I love the colour that I chose. Okay, so you guys are one on track all three of you and I'm looking forward to finding out what's still left to get done because the biggest thing about winter home is that you guys have put on the immense time pressure. Remember the first time we chatted to all three of you, you said you've never worked under this kind of pressure before. You've worked on projects we had months and months to get things done. Now you've got a very, very short space of time. What's it like working on Valdivine initially? I mean man, the first time I got there it was overwhelming for me because it's a very nice place with the landscape and stuff. But at the same time it's very motivating to work in such a huge and luxurious place so it's very inspiring for me and I hope to take this opportunity with both hands. Awesome dude, it's a nice eye-opening experience I think for everybody, for you too, Rudolf. Yeah, I just can't wait to get in the outdoors on my mountain bike and see what's out there but it's amazing. I was going to ask, because obviously when we chatted one of your big patchers was mountain biking, that's one of the great offerings at Valdivine and they're very proud of the different tracks that they've got, I think it's like a 30 kilometre or something that they've got there. You haven't had time I guess. But they have so many sports that they offer on the estate so it offers something for everyone. Is there going to be a sporty element, sort of outdoors element to your apartment in the guest bedroom? Well yeah, there's going to be some touch of nature. I always like to be inspired by nature so let's see. I'm wondering why you're wearing the sort of green ruchee. I'm just trying to check whether you are, trying to match what you're wearing now to your room. And you're not soft as one, eh? Has the experience been interesting for you because it is a very luxurious estate to find yourself on. I mean, there comes a lot of challenges because maybe your creativity is particularly bubbly and fun and friendly but you have to adapt that to the environment itself. How have you found it? So it's very relaxing, Valdivine. I see it as a breakaway type of architecture and the whole vibe there. So I'm going for the more minimalist spa, relaxing type of look. Okay, it should be very, very interesting. I noticed something that you guys might not know so far. Mark Riley from ARC, paid you guys a visit. Okay, and he had a look at what you guys had done while you weren't there. We've got a clip of what he had to say about all the different apartments. Take a look. I think we're doing quite well, also a little bit behind but I do like the fact that he's concentrated on the floor and has really given careful consideration to his approach. He's gone for a parquet flooring and he's really looked at the detail and I think that's quite special. He's created a very broad border around the edge and then he's kind of softened that with a very small skirting trim, which is lovely. I like the raw finish that he's presented in the room so I'm not too sure if he's going to stay in it and let's see if he does come up with a stand color. In terms of the finishes that he's looking at the wall, I'm not too sure where he's going with the green and gray. Not my favorite colors, a little bit bright for me but let's see what he does and hopefully it's going to wow us. I think Jeanette's room is starting to take shape with the completion sort of looming, I think that she's still a little bit behind. What I have seen is I do like that she's chosen a timber floor that she's also going to be running through the whole apartment so I do like that there's a continuous thread throughout the spaces and I also like the fact that she's got an accent wall color that she's chosen for her headboard wall and I think the color is very soft and I think that's quite complimentary maybe to who she is and I think the color works very well with the timber color and the sort of dusty pink tone is kind of one of the color trends for this year. Other than why I'm still sticking out of the wall, nothing much is going on, huh? That's scary. Well clearly Menele needs to pull a rabbit out of the hat, I think he's way behind and hopefully he's got his planning in order and hopefully he's got a plan of action to catch up but that's how it goes in design. Sometimes planning doesn't work and you're going to have to burn the middle wall, you've got to push hard, you've got to get your team organized. At the end of the day the result is you've got to wow the client. Sure, some pretty interesting stuff coming from Mark there. How do you feel? Well, as you saw I'm like the one that's mostly behind but yeah, hopefully everything's going to come together because I do have things planned out. What are you doing on our couch? Go finish your apartment, you've got lots of stuff to do my friend, you've got lots of you sitting here relaxed, chilling and I hope the bug will be able to kick your ass and make sure that you're getting yourself focused and moving towards finishing that apartment fast. Yeah, definitely, it's just that for me things are going to come in at once. Cool, he's going to blow it all away, let's hope that that is the case. In this commentary you saw that he was a bit unsure of your colour schemes in your walls. Yeah, I think Mark is a really hands-on guy, so yeah, if he doesn't like the colours that's fine. I might not be using those colours in the room after all. Oh, okay, so it is not all about him as well, you've got three judges to appease, I hope that they like those two, but it's great advice to look at and someone else's external eye to see it. How does your mentor feel about the colours? She also had a look, there's one particular one that we both like so we might go with that one. Cool, and yourself Joanne? Yeah, that's what I really chose and it's going on that wall and Sumin also really liked the colours, we chose it together. Good, so it was a very complimentary intake of what you had done so far from Mark, so waiting to see what the final product is like, because technically you've set the bar up here for yourself, now the final product is going to be better than that, otherwise these two are both going to be able to climb that ladder towards the end. So hopefully some competition, hopefully you guys will be able to see a little bit of what the others are going for and produce something phenomenal. The main thing for me is getting the floor in, I'm also going for a timber flooring, so that's the main thing I'm focusing on now, then everything else is going to come in. Fall into place, we haven't spoken much besides the wall paint and the flooring, have you got other ideas for this room that are going to blow people away? Yes, I have some elements that I'm going to be applying to make the room look bigger than it is because it's quite very small. So Rudolph, you've obviously got to make these colour choices, you've bought the paint, you haven't painted the walls yet, what's the let for you to do? Well, besides that, it's also just furniture being delivered on time, a few things having to be installed on site. So we'll see, it's got to be hectic two days the last two days. I don't know how you guys are going to cope. Sleepless night, he says, burn the candle at both ends and just make sure that you, what, burn the midnight oil? Was the right phrase that he used? I still have to do the headboard that still needs to come against the wall and then my very interesting cupboard that I've got planned still needs to be figured out and sorted. Well, they only have four days left to complete their guest bedroom, the pressure is mounting. So make sure you follow Afternoon Express this week to see how it all pans out. Very exciting and of course we are honored and excited to have one at home here on Afternoon Express. You'll see the contestants gradually transform three properties at Felder via State using finishes provided by Cesar Stone and Plaskon. Judging their work are renowned architects Stefan Antoni and Roselle from Plaskon and Simon Bray from Private Property. Now you could win one of the finished departments valued at over three million rand in the grand prize competition. To enter, visit privateproperty.co.ca When a home is proudly brought to you by Private Property in association with Nedbank. 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