 Search for a home on any device, anytime, anywhere. Private Property, a home for everyone. Good afternoon and welcome to Afternoon Express. My name is Daniela Arquistil. Every Friday on Afternoon Express is Winner Home, South Africa's favourite interior design and decor reality competition brought to you by Private Property. Follow our three design duos as they transform three cluster homes at the Eye of Africa Golf and Residential Estate in Johannesburg in lavish living spaces. Now it's called Winner Home because that's exactly what will happen at the end of this incredible adventure. While our design duos compete for awards throughout the series, the real winner could be you. Yes, you could win your choice of one of three completed homes with luxurious finishes by Plaskon and Caesarstone, as well as premier home appliances by Grundig. The total prize value is over 3 million rand, making this the biggest prize on South African television. Now last week we introduced you to our three dynamic design duos and their mentors. This week they start the competition in earnest. But before we find out which room they'll be tackling first, let's give you a quick recap to get you up to speed. Last week we met our three design duos that will battle it out in the name of great design. They are Team House and Leisure. We've known each other for six years and since we've known each other that long, I believe that we're going to be like the bomb in this competition. We're going to kill it. Team VC. We are definitely going to be the best duo for the winner home competition. And Team Habitat. We are super duper over the moon stars. And the galaxy excited. We're super excited to be chosen for the season of Winner Home. The three white box homes that they'll be transforming are located at the Stone Quarter Development in the magnificent Iowa Africa Gulf and Residential Estate in the south of Johannesburg. The design duos drew keys from a hat to determine which of the units they would be decorating before getting to view their empty canvas for the first time. Each design duo will benefit from the expert advice and experience of magazine editor mentors who will guide them on their journey. Now it's time to get things started with the brief on their first challenge. The competition is about to start. And we have no words. This is our first challenge. We don't know what to expect. We're about to get our first briefing and it's so nerve-racking. It's been very exciting at the same time because we've been waiting for this opportunity and it's finally happening. We're going to bring that razzle jazz. We're ready to get in there, get through the walls, build some walls, tear down some. Tear down a lot of walls. And bring in some chandeliers. Welcome winner homies to your first challenge. Over the next 14 weeks you'll be decorating one room or space every two weeks to ultimately create a dream home. A dream home that one of our viewers will win as their very own. Your first challenge is to turn a white space into a room that will have your friends queuing out the door to visit. It's the guest bedroom. The guest bedroom is required to be comfortable, versatile and accommodating. You have two weeks. Good luck. Guest bedroom. So imagine if your granny is visiting you at home, you want her to be comfortable. We have to warm up the room because we want the guest to feel welcome and also we kind of have funny things hanging on the wall. And out with existing units. You're going to a guest room that's impressive, invites the guest. Since check in, man. And enjoy. And then check out when they get a bit much. Yes, you got to go to your own home. The guest bedroom is often overlooked and easily overshadowed by the master bedroom. But it's definitely one of the most important rooms in the home. It's the first challenge for our design dios and the outcome will reveal the front runners in the competition. The first step to success is meeting with the magazine mentors to discuss their visions. Meeting with Tian for the guest room, we're actually worried that are we prepared enough first of all because we haven't seen him in a while and will he actually like what it is? What do we have? That's what I've been asking myself. Do we have enough to impress him? So for an overarching kind of mood for the guest bedroom, what are you going for? What's the mood of the room? Okay, colour-wise, we introduced a bit of peach, a lighter vision of peach, just to warm the room up since it's on the darker side of the house. And then behind the bed, we have like an art effect in Emerald. Working with Tian is actually great because he leaves us to do our thing and then later comes back to us. And I love the fact that he doesn't like shut down our ideas. He's open to listening to everything and if he feels like there's nothing, there's something better that can be done. It is then when he gives us his input as well. Okay, this is where you're going to introduce the Caesar stone. Yes, this is where you incorporate the Caesar stone on the two shelves. Then the bottom shelf will be left for shoes, the top one can be for accessories or whatever you prefer to have on them. And then again, we're going to be having Caesar stone over the bed, which is going to be like a darker one so that it contrasts with the wall. And then in terms of the furniture, I see that you've kind of kept it quite light in terms of the treatment in the wood. What's the thinking there? We actually looked at the more neutral stuff because we're trying to keep it very calm and almost feminine, unlike too muscular. Muscular and minimal at most. So last time you guys mentioned that you want to collaborate with some artists for some original artwork in the room. Are we kicking off, are we starting with this room or where are we at? So in regards to artists, we've got Tatiana Chidora, who actually volunteered to give us exhibition prints. And then we tried Vosip Bisham, which we have here on the screen. And unfortunately, he's in there so we couldn't have him on board for now. And then at the end, it's her for nominated. I thought it would be best if he did. Perfect, perfect. So much pressure. But then going forward, I think the learning from this is that if we want to collaborate, we do need to plan that a little bit in advance, especially for pieces like that that needs a little bit of time to produce. But I think it's going to be great. It's already brief news. I'm back. And Tian actually really likes it. We thought he wouldn't like it, but he agreed with everything that he came up with. I was actually so impressed that he loved it. He wouldn't be bad. Back on site, Team VC is meeting their mentor. We are now having the guest bedroom and having a little meeting about what we're planning to do with the guest bedroom. Our first idea was wallpaper. And we love this wallpaper. It's very exciting. It's very vibrant. So what we are trying to do is do a modern jungle inside the bedroom, like a concrete jungle. But we also need to consider the fact that we don't make it too much. That's what we are afraid of. It mustn't be too much. Stick the wallpaper and see how everything is going to look. This is too bright. Can you see? We are applying our paint to test it out and see if it will work with our ideas. And to our shock and horror, Asmpoor is applying it to the wall. The paint is wrong. This is too bright. Can you see? I love the wallpaper. And I'm very glad they had a litre of paint here. Because once we started painting, we realised it's too bright. It's the wrong colour. So what do you think about this one? I think maybe it might look a little nice. But does it not blend in with the wallpaper? I don't mind. I don't mind the blending in. But we don't want it to be too much blended-blended. It needs to look like it's going to fall off. Bu and I have decided to create an imaginary client for our entire house. To give us more direction and just to focus us. Doing this has impressed me endlessly. Thank you, Annemarie. Instead of just fixing this home, you created a character, a person who's going to live here. Tell me about him. So this is a photographer named Chai Vastiviman. He's more formal and simple guy. So we want to make this house to... Real. ...be like him instead of to represent him. I like your choice. Thank you. Any of those three bears can really do, except I wouldn't put the four-poster bed. Not yet. Well, Annemarie and Lissuho are besties. And I'm going to surprise them with a bed. No, you're not. After they're not going to even see. We are. They're just going to fall in love with what I'm bringing on stage. We're supposed to be a duo, poor designer. I know. So this is our collaboration piece. It's an ottoman. Spot on. I'm impressed with what they collected. I like the bed. I love the little fluffy ottoman. I think that's going to add such a touch. And it highlights all of our beautiful gold accents in the room. How fabulous. So we want to just carry through this theme of gold. And green. And green. And green. Definitely. So I think this is sorted. You've got the look together. But what are you going to do about the floor? Oh no, we already had an idea for the floor. Lissuho, you have the sample with you. We have decided on the white diamond flooring. And Annamali thinks it's a great idea. Yeah. Finally, we both agree on the same thing. Definitely. For once. I think the smartest thing they've done is to invent a virtual client. And I find that so exciting. Because if you don't have someone you're doing a room for or a house for, you go gaga. And it ends up in this eclectic style. Which is yesterday. In the next door, Unit's team habitat is hatching a big plan. Right now while we're shopping, it's... It's going down. It's going down. I'm talking breaking down the wall, kind of down. My nerves. They're going right through that wall. Yeah. We created an ensuite for our guest room. Sure. So we managed to convince them to smash that wall down. We were not letting it go. No. Something had to go down and it happened to be that wall. If they're not knocking it down now, a beer would be leaving shopping with his hammer. And now we're going to give my hammer and go to the other Africa and now we'll bash it down. Yeah. And then probably now I've been doing this little black tango, which is not good for team habitat. Not at all. Not at all. Not at all. Well, talk about a smashing start. Now that you've had a peek into the overall visions of the three design dealers, I want to show you a support for your favorite. Simply visit privateproperty.co.z and click on the winner home icon on the home page. Vote for your favorite design duo to stand a chance of winning a silly postiopedic mattress and base set, providing you with a healthy sleep and a healthy life. Plus, you'll also be automatically entered into the grand prize draw where you stand a chance of winning one of the three cluster homes decorated by our design duos. How amazing is that? Now it's time for us to take a quick break and after a turn, we find out if Team Habitat's decision to smash a hole in their wall was a success or perhaps smashed a hole in their design. For a good reason. Because if it doesn't improve people's lives, it isn't plus gone. Plus gone. Designed for life. Good to have you back with us. Good to have you back with us on Winner Home on Afternoon Express on this Friday afternoon. Before the break, we saw that a big part of Team Habitat's design was creating a doorway between the guest bedroom and the bathroom. It's quite a bold move, this early on in the challenge, but a beer and Brad are anything but conventional. Now the next step is everyone's favourite. It's shopping! But sadly, their mentor Amanda had a medical emergency and sent a colleague in her place. So we're busy shopping for lights and... Minus one. Minus, yeah. Minus our mentor. She's here. She's been feeling well in the hospital. But we're still standing strong. We had Ferra to help us, who was sent by Amanda. I'm a bit nervous to go shopping with Ferra. I don't know if she can manage the budget with you. Just let me spend what I need to spend and the budget will be managed just fine. Thank goodness you haven't got the pen. Oh, God. Sure. Ferra, thank you so much for standing in for Amanda. Thank you, sir. Like healing and walking. I hope she feels better soon. Oh, you're nervous. Right, what have we got? Our guest bedroom. Bang, bang, bang. We managed to tip him to knock down the wall into the bathroom. Okay. And what is there now? It's a frosted glass door. So we're just going to need some good lighting. Lots of good lighting. Let's go have a look. Let's do it. MGG, I see this light. And it's the one. It is the one. This light is the one and I'm looking at it. I got a habit. No, I got a habit for real, guys. This is it. Shut the front door. This is the light. Bread? 80,000 for a lamp. A beer? No, we can't. 80,000 for a lamp. Bread is the budget. Beef for bread or budget? No, too expensive. So this light, as soon as I saw it, I went, OMG, OMG, no. This light. Bread, you're not making this very easy for me, but like if we have to choose something today, maybe this is alternative. This one right here. How's the budget looking, bread? 80,000 for a budget. I think this, for a second option, is a very good idea. We can play with the shapes and sizes, bring the jungle theme in, maybe play with different sizes, have some fun with it. It's got the gold that we wanted. I see here you can use it for the floor. I'm going to use it on the... Since I can't get the lamp I wanted, I'm going to use it on the ceiling. It's used for ceiling, table or floor. Fabulous. I love it. So this is the one. The lights that we picked are quite nice. They fit our jungle theme. Absolutely. Green and gold. You're just going to make it wild. Absolutely. That's our strategy. It's a golf course. It's the eye of Africa and we're bringing that eye of Africa into that room. Yes. Boom. The theme house and leisure is at Plaskon Spaces for some paint advice. And we are so excited and getting advice from Claire with how to go about with that technique and it's going quite well. I guess the most important thing that we've got to do today is roll on your base coat. It's very important and each coat must dry in between the layers. You help me a little. Thank you. And can I ask something? If the wall is not smooth enough, it's textured, does it affect the outcome of the paint effect? Oh, that's a good question because with paint effects, especially this paint effect, you do need a smooth wall. Claire, in between coats, how long does it take to dry? Just remember in summer, you need about two hours. But with the miserable weather and at the moment, being winter, at least four to five hours. Claire is showing us how to actually mix up the paints. Like, there are different brushes for mixing. There's a brush for application and then there's also a brush to mix everything. Blend it. Yes, basically blending, yeah. Okay, James, now we're going to start creating our ink faded effect. The most important thing is to wet that section of wall first with your piece of cloth. Why are we making it wet? The paint dries really fast even though we put an anti-drying glycerine in it. All right, so the important thing is you need dampness to make the effect look blotchy. So here we've got cashmere in your beautiful transcendent. I love this colour. And you apply it left to right. Remember, it's got your glycerine in it so it doesn't drip because we don't want it all messy. So does the glycerine in the paint help with the transparency? Yes, it does. It not only helps with the transparency so you can see your beautiful peach colour underneath but it also stops the paint from dripping. Okay, here we are. We finished our first layer. All right, now we move quickly onto the second colour. You just rag it a bit and then you get a lovely effect. So you get that light and dark but you also get that beautiful slightly ink faded look that we're trying to achieve here. So you can just see, I moved the brush in an art and you just gently blend it like this with your brush and then your technique is finished. I think our future wall is going to look amazing. Thank you so much, Claire. It's such a pleasure and I must admit, I think your colour selection is beautiful. I'm worried that since you have to do our future wall, you'll get it right or not. It brings me out. I have to give you the benefit of the doubt, I guess. Yes. From paint advice to surface selection. We are at Caesar Stone meeting up with Harriet from Natural Stone Design. And we're so excited to finally be picking our stone. I just have that thing for stones. And we're actually picking up our slab today. Yeah. What can we do for you guys? What we actually need is a floating shelf, something similar to that. Okay, this is possible to do the floating shelf for you. Inside will be a steel frame. The granite or the Caesar Stone will actually just slide over it. We're going to use vanilla nore for the floating shelf over the bed. And it's a black stone with cremish veins. And then the other thing we have, we've got an open-steel rod shelf. And what we'd like to do is insert shelves with, I think, we've thought of the Mont Blanc which we have here. And only because it will be a great contrast. And I've decided to keep it consistent with Mont Blanc only because we're going to be using it for the rest of the house. And we'd like to show us maybe the slab yard so we can see the stone. This is kind of an insect. Right, guys. Here's your Mont Blanc color. You can see the full slab with all the movement in. On this side, we've got the vanilla nore. Also very nice. Very popular. It's beautiful. We take the full sheet, as you see it here, cut it according to the size. Polish it and install it for you. And it's meant to be a two-storey stone that's standing next to each other. Exactly. Safe point by Nele have really got, I think they got I like their ideas with the flighting shelf and the bracket and everything. But Karad still has another team to advise. Wow. So is that the coastal gray? That's right. Wow. It's definitely bigger and better at that size. Sure. Coastal gray is the color that we've chosen. It's beautiful. And Karad, who's the genius, the man who can catch through a Caesar stone. Well, he's from natural stone design. Yes. So I hope, you know, he can help us decide what you're going to do with this. Okay. So, we're going to start by basically doing the plan of a room. Like a room. It's quite a small room. And we're trying to do something quite grand. And he's not going with my stone. We want him to build pillars out of Caesar stone. Okay. So this would be a pillar. That would be a pillar. Well, you think this way. Because the entrance would be here. The entrance to the room is through here. And then I'm thinking, you put a pillar, Caesar stone, Caesar stone, and a Caesar stone, almost like a floating. I'm worried about to walk in and the person you see is those pillars. You know what I mean. I think he wants to put it against the wall. Yeah. That way. Karad is trying to help us out with the middle ground. Abiyah wants the Caesar stone floating in the middle of the room. I went to flat against the wall. But... He did say he's not a designer. We are. So we must choose what you must do. So I don't know how much I've got, but we need to decide. Guys, at the end of the day, the decision is yours. You're the interior designer. You know what you guys want. Yeah. So whatever you decide on, we can make it happen. Bradley and Abiyah, I like the idea what they want to do with the Caesar stone. Very different. Obviously, I can't make the interior design decision, but we can make whatever they want us to. With that, our design dears have now made decisions on the biggest elements in the room, including paint colors from Plaskon and beautiful court stone surfaces from Caesar stone. Let us know what you think of their design choices so far by joining the conversation on social media. Follow the journey and share your opinion by connecting with us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram using that important hashtag, win a home. After the break, our design dears are on the hunt for the finishing touches that'll make their guest bedrooms sparkle. Stay right where you are. The global trendsetting, kitchen countertops, Caesar stone, it's different. Welcome back to Winner Home on Afternoon Express. Our design dears are on the go with their first space, that all-important guest bedroom. It's time to add personality to the room with interesting furniture pieces and accessories. And Paul from Team VC has an interesting furniture design and along with his teammate, Les Sechos, they have a vision for a custom piece that calls for collaboration with a fellow designer that they both respect. We have decided to call one of our favourite designers. I'm very inspired by him, Leonardo Designs. Frank, you know that I'm inspired by local designers. You're one of those designers that I truly follow. Thank you, Paul. So we are absolutely inspired. I absolutely love your dodecahedron piece. Thank you. Thank you very much. We love it. Absolutely love it. But we're thinking of editing it slightly just to fit in our room so that it has a little bit more of an applicant. What a pleasure. What do you have in mind? So we were thinking of something like this which has more of a tapered shape to it. What you can do is look at creating more vertical facets to the table, which I think would look very, very nice. So I was thinking that we should go with a gold rich pearl finish so that we get that more inspired gold shape diamond mixed with a little bit of gold there. A great color to work with. So what they'd like to do is take one of our designs and adapt it and perhaps change the facets, add some facets and it'll be interesting to see how the end product turns out. So the next step we're going to go to the cutting phase and then thereafter we'll go to welding and we're looking at about three weeks. Three weeks? We'll make a plan for you, we'll make a plan for you. Okay. About a week. It should take about three weeks but I can see the circle is very concerned about it so we'll try and push it and get it out in a week. While walking the dog's trying to meet a deadline. You know and stick to the budget. You know we had to visit the guys if we don't win the challenge. I swear. I'm an object to the panel. I'm an object in your honor. Thank you. Wow. Wow. Wow. In the time that you had I'm actually so surprised you could have done it. How long did it take you? It takes me like one week working day and night to come with this piece I was working with my brother I think you for like working with us and making something so amazing like it's something so new and it's like well Bradley I think you should try sit down so we can see the effect. I mean our whole baby girl. Hello. Wow it's like welcome to the jungle. Well please hold your flowers you are the queen. I mean you sitting in a zebra. A zebra. Boom enough said. Are we going to bead it like this or are we going to paint it? Yeah I would say bead it to keep the shine like when you're sitting in black and white you look like a zebra so it's like if the chain is black and white it will look like a complete zebra. Zebra I think so. It's hot. Yeah now we just need to decide how we're going to work this chain. Is it going to be beaded painted glass perspective we don't know the decisions decisions. We are at Frank's factory and our piece is half way done and we are so impressed that it's this far the welding is absolutely beautiful. I like the idea that Frank is turning ideas into reality. Yeah which is making designers dreams come true. Definitely. So now we had Oriental Plaza we are shopping for our kittens and Radha is showing us the different fabrics they have and what we can do with them. So many options to pick from. Radha do you have organza? Yes we have organza but why do you want to use organza? Not even my grandmother still uses that. Youngsters should be looking at something like this and that's Impression. And you know that Radha actually took you serious when you were talking about organza that is beautiful. So this is kind of like the main cat. That's your main curtain and you want to put a sheer curtain behind it? Oh yes definitely. Then we can match the sheer curtains because these are all sheer curtains here. The style we're looking for is actually adding eyelets to catting. The main cat yes only because I've actually looked into that style for a long time but and it's still classic I must say. And the idea is to he's turning me into a bridal joke like finally what the hell? I'm trying to get you ready for marriage. And now that we found our style and what we're looking for we're actually going to celebrate with samosas and I'll always eat them when I'm here. But then we still have to make the final decision because I can fill our budget thinking. It's a lot. It's actually a lot of what we're going to make. Team VC is back at Leonardo Design to see their collaboration complete. It's so beautiful. And I'm also excited that Frank can actually pull this with such a notice period. I love the way your ideas come out so beautifully with the straight facet coming down here. It really works out well. Thank you Frank. If it wasn't for Frank we couldn't have it. Thank you so much. Thanks a lot Frank. It was nice working with you. And the colours worked out perfectly. Perfectly. Thank you Leonardo Design. We finally have our beautiful golden diamond. And some things that is going to be on your fingers which is not a wedding ring. This is a table by the way. Uh-huh. We are at Bulgur Tex. We shopping for artificial grass and it's not for the outside. Ahahahaha. How's it going? I'm pretty good. Ahahaha. Sorry. It's quite gross. We're trying to negotiate to discount. You know what? And buses What's up? But you know buses are prettyücksreadig. Kinda hate on a bus. Okay well I'll turn this side. How can I help you guys? Well we find flooring for our guest bedroom and we thought this is it this is it okay well this is actually our putting green so yeah if you put this in the bedroom just make sure that you buy a pattern as well so you can absolutely that's a multifunctional bit you can touch touch do you would would you like to see some of our other types of of grass yeah we were wanting a shorter grass and then also a longer grass let's have a look at the range and I'll show you what is available thank you okay guys this where the golf green that you saw the showroom and then you were asking about the longer grass longer grass here we can see the longer grass okay the real and here on the on the wall behind you can see there's some samples that you wow with you and then you can go and play and see at home how it will fit into your cycle scheme so you're welcome to use okay I'm gonna that one yeah yeah there's a huge massive huge variety of grass yeah ginormous but I swear the one that we got is the hole in one it's when I pat pat yeah it is it is well it seems like our design duos are definitely not holding back and are coming out of the gate I should probably say the bedroom door with strong ideas and interesting choices as with any renovations seeing progress is always exciting so later we pop in to see how the designs are coming along but after the break genies on the couch to launch a brand new property advice segment on winter home brought to you by private home kicking off on afternoon express we are transforming ourselves into experts on all things the state living we will explore various aspects related to buying and living on estates and today we launch our series of property advice by discussing the different types of property available on estates in South Africa and how to choose the right property type for you helping us to unpack and understand this better is Lisa Boniface welcome hi Jeanie nice to be here today so lovely to have you here so a state living is obviously the most I don't know it's valued at this stage I think in South Africa I would love to live on a state but do you have to live on a free holding property like what kind of options are there so genie that used to be the case but there has been quite a bit of changes around a state living so what happened what happened in the past was you would buy a plot of land and you would you would build on it or you would buy a building that already exists however there have been some changes and now sectional title is incorporated into the estates which I think is great because it's more affordable and people who are buying sectional title still benefits from that estate living the security that comes with it the poolhouse the golf course so yeah it's really great to have sectional title in a state living now and then how do you go about buying it are there any rules or laws in place okay so when buying any property and we always turn to the alienation of land act it must be in writing so you enter into a contract for the land it's a deed of sale and then you end into a building contract with the developer or the builder and then keep in mind when you buy into an estate you're also acknowledging the rules of that estate you become part of a home owners association and you bow into all of those rules and regulations so it's quite regulated and I think that's a good thing that's a positive thing and there's architectural guidelines when building in an estate usually there's nominated architects so there's quite a lot involved when buying into an estate and I think as a buyer you must you must definitely do your homework on those elements definitely and this is our homework right now can you tell me a little bit more about freehold ownership okay so freehold ownership you own the building as well as the land that the building is on okay so every unit is given an earth number so even if you live in a flat okay but that's not a sectional that's that's sexual title okay so freehold freehold is a piece of land and the building on that piece of land okay you get full title to that okay and you then are responsible for most things around that earth so the maintenance the upkeep the insurance rates and taxes and you will be responsible for in comparison with your sectional title the body corporate takes control of a few of those elements so the upkeep of the common property will be dealt with by the body corporate and they will pay the insurance on the on the building so there are quite big differences in a sectional title you become the owner of a section and an undivided share in the common property okay so everything outside of your unit is the common property and each owner shares in that and undivided shares whereas in an earth you own the land that you're on and the building and although there's communal areas that's owned by the homeowners association and governed by them and which one's better like is one type of ownership better than the other I suppose they both come with different pros and cons yeah so they definitely both have pros and cons I think as I mentioned before genie it's definitely more affordable to buy into a sectional title however it's a lot less exciting because if you are a creative person or you do want to make any changes to the property it's very difficult to do that and you need consents from the body corporates whereas in a homeowners association although there's architectural guidelines and you can't do what you want to you still have an option to choose different building specifications different colors in some cases fixtures and fittings yeah whereas in your sectional title units when you make a change you do need that consent from the body corporates not on the internal structure not only not on the internal structure okay so you basically have to live with what you've got there to build on the bathroom means consent from the body corporates and to make any changes to the structures also becomes very problematic so I think it just depends on your affordability and if you're happy to live in a sectional title with lots of management rules and conduct rules and then it's a great place to be and the body corporate does take over a lot of responsibility looking after those common areas and the costs in that is then shared as well okay but the body corporate you can actually live there and be part of the body corporate so do you reckon if you've got a sectional title home you should be part of the body corporate so that nobody can say no to you when you want to make changes yeah so what happens is you immediately become a member of the body corporates when that section is transferred into your name and you can't resign from the body corporates you automatically become a member of that body corporates okay so I think that's important to keep in mind and the body corporate is really a collective name for owners in a scheme oh yeah I'm gonna have to start going to those meetings no you're gonna have to definitely thank you so much I really do feel more armed now with more information ready to go buy more homes I wish okay remember you can win your choice of one of three fully designed cluster homes at the eye of Africa Gulf residential estate in the winner home grand prize competition to enter visit www private property dot co dot today answer any question and vote for your favorite designed duo keep a lookout to each week for more property advice and tips right here on win a home after the break we catch up with our design duos to see how they're feeling halfway towards completing their first challenge search for a home on any device any time anywhere private property home for everyone welcome back to win a home on afternoon express if you've just joined us our design duos are well on the way to completing their first room challenge that guest bedroom now at the halfway mark it's time for me to check in and find out what's been done and what possible challenges await our design duos on the path to completing their guest bedrooms it's a halfway mark and it feels like we just started my love there's a lot of challenges going on everything is happening we are a bit worried about the time frame yeah are we gonna finish on time are we gonna have everything done nicely and correctly that's the biggest fear that we have now most of I have already arrived and it's looking promising that we're gonna be done on time we got confident about that yes and it's so exciting to see everything just like come together yeah it's really exciting but you know what that mural it's still giving me heart attacks and he's just on my back throughout and not giving me rest actually work on the mural he ruined my confidence so team have a chance to be about halfway through the guest bedroom but with all of their flamboyant ideas you never really know and it seems like they're getting some creative ideas from the outdoors I was actually taking a photo of you to mention to be working I come and check up with you for once and you guys are standing outside looking like schmodels I know it looks like we just chinchelling but it's a none of that we're waiting for the contractors our dream team want to see us know that how is it going on in there guys my nerves your stress is an understatement we are stressed to the core with the capital is what looks like your dream team has arrived yes dream team girls so brand you've brought in your nieces to be your specialist contractors to finish off your chandeliers but what still needs to be done what has been done where's the drama in this guest bedroom sure the drama is war to war I mean ceiling to every way there's drama because we started out with banging out of war which is quite dramatic to create an unsweet guest bedroom experience yeah so we still waiting for painting to be done go to be finished carpets to be put in so halfway mark we're bit stressed seems like a lot of things to get done sure and the more you say that the more I go there's not enough time yeah our furniture is arriving so hopefully we'll be able to pull it that room should be jungle fever like jungle fever water wall chandeliers grass zebra or the million-dollar question is will you guys be done in time all I can say is for my nerves I hope so and girls how are you feeling you think they're gonna win awesome and a house and building this little chandelier is it like a one of your puzzles yeah awesome have fun let's check up on important let's say we're making up team VC they seem confident enough so confident in fact that often you and I a little tour of the guest bedroom in half way this is our room didn't know looks quite cool I like the colors but I mean half way done and you guys are just got basically paint on the wall yeah so basically everything was we're quite stressing about the paint we first lifted the wrong paint and now we have the correct one which I think it's beautiful but it's taking forever to go on yeah so we still need another final quote of pain we still need to paint our ceiling and corn and we also need to put wallpaper today okay because you guys got you're halfway got a week to finish all of this stuff and lot seems like it still needs to be done in every point along the way you've had delay so are you guys gonna be finished in time yeah we all want to be finished on time look at this it comes with a lifetime of what you've meant an experience if you place your projects according to time and spec everything will be done and you're looking forward to the final product green is one of my favorite colors and I love what you guys have done with it in this room particularly so what's the rest of the vision so all the stress is gonna give you guys a fever and in here it's gonna be jungle fever probably not so if you know the song by Alicia Keys concrete jungles but kind of a song in New York so if you listen to that kind of a song and looking at Joe Baker's role it's a man-made jungle so we're trying to put the theme into the house and looking at also the crime that you're trying to create the house for so we're gonna have a nice little wallpaper here which is going to represent the middle quite also better and make the space to be more feminine definitely and also we went with the darker color just to make the room feel more intimate yeah because if you can use a light color in it the more light it is the more you can sleep well guys I want to be honest with you seems like you're very reliant on your supplies I suggest you roll up your sleeves and start doing some of the painting yourself otherwise you guys aren't gonna be done all right so good luck about time we started doing that listen up let's do this yep team house and leisure have been hard at work and they're about to arrive with a special delivery and that special delivery is themselves as girl let's see what they've got it's a panel it's very good it's nice to see you guys so what's in the boot yeah we've got a job paint chair that we just collected oh wow it looks awesome but listen what I'm very surprised about is there seems to be a third member of your team so what's going on here this is Nicole she drives us around so why do you guys need a driver well listen you guys have been warned about this from the beginning from one of the judges how's this impact of the project financially it's been a strike because we actually hadn't planned to have someone extra to actually help us with the driving but it really needed that because we couldn't get around it ever since she came on board it's making life so simple because we can go to like more than one case at the same time whereas with public transport you can't do that it's such a mess well Nicole they've got great things to say about you what is it like working with them it's been very interesting because I learn a lot and it's exciting I mean furniture shopping and hanging out with the two of them I'm very excited it's fun and they paying you right yeah right let's turn our attention to what's going on in there I mean what's happening how you guys doing how are you feeling like honestly I'm a bit stressed about the wall art that we still have to do the few layers that we did it's not looking as I hope it will only because he doesn't trust the process he's hoping that instantly the artwork is done but no it's like layers and layers and layers before it is done I think that's the problem I'm imagining the end before we even get there and he also doesn't trust the artist trust is one of the most important things in a team so I hope that you guys are going to learn to trust each other has he been a nightmare to work with or everything you could have expected from a partner no we understand what needs to be done we're able to delegate tasks to each other I deal with a lot of admin and I'm glad you guys are giggling now but you guys need to get a lot done still so I hope you carry a box you don't have to pay me the paint effects is quite hard actually only because I'm working with tones of green so it's getting it consistently like dark green and fading it so that's quite hard I'm stressed I love my friend but I wish we had a specialist we have very little time left and we've been trying to push the wallpaper to get in and now our corners is not dry so if the wallpaper and the wet corners touch it's gonna make ugliness top of our paper right now we've got two painters painting and finishing up our corners and hopefully tomorrow morning we'll be able to install the wallpaper pretty defeated pretty defeated the design deals have 99 problems and time management is a big one with the deadline for completion looming the outcome is anyone's guess will it be triumph or tragedy when the judges make their house call but you'll have to wait until next week to see how that unfolds don't forget that once all the interior designing has been completed one of these homes could be yours visit private 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