Search for a home on any device, any time, anywhere. Private property, a home for everyone. Good afternoon and welcome to Winner Home on Afternoon Express on S.A.B.C.3. I'm your host, Danilo Acquisto, and a new week means a brand new adventure for our three design dios as they transform three cluster homes that the Isle of Africa estate in Johannesburg from white box spaces into lavish homes, one room at a time. Now before we find out which room is next on the checklist, let's take a quick recap of what happened last week as they completed their guest bedrooms. Previously on Winner Home, the first challenge finished with a flurry of last-minute work. It is the final day and we know we're close to finishing our long mural. We have everything still left to do. We will finish with the help of the design gods. Team Apertad had the most work to do and the stress was driving them up their grass-covered walls.   Miraculously, all three designed dios finished in the nick of time before the judges had the tough task critiquing three stylishly different guest bedrooms. All of us are standing to silence. Will I be able to sleep in this room? I'm not so sure. I think I wouldn't want to wake up with a hangover in this room. In the end, Team House and Leisure won the first challenge and bagged an extra 5,000 rand to add it to their budget. So happy. But also it gave us a lot of confidence that we're actually doing well. And we shouldn't be comfortable. This is definitely the beginning. We need to work even more hard to collect all those 5K. The reality of the competition is very much top of mind for all three designed dios and they'll need to channel that ambitious energy as well as lessons from the first room into their next challenge. Welcome back. It's challenge time again, contestants. And for this one, challenge two, you're rarely going to have to think outside of the box. The previous round went to Team House and Leisure but this time we're back, we're wilder and we've got more to bring, more tricks up our sleeves. They better hold on to that crown. We are coming for the crown. It's time to design and decorate the spare room. For this one, we're giving you complete creative freedom. However, there is one rule. It may not be a bedroom. Next challenge, it's an open brief and we're ready to go. Yeah, and we are not sure if to do the music room or a library because of some of us are quite... Intellectual. We are Ridas. Not Daily Sun Ridas. All this creative freedom might be a blessing for some of you or a curse for others but remember that this is somebody's future home so it needs to be both practical and creative. Our minds are juggling around. What to do that works for everybody, especially the one of that home. Yeah, so we put in our minds together because we got to take this. This time around, every team out of the way, we're coming for that prize. You have two weeks to create something that will wow the judges, go forth and design. We're actually turning ours into a walking closet. Because Temple always talks about walking in closets and I think it will fit very perfect for the master suit. What better starting point than selecting the all important paint colors? So we've decided to go a little bit intellectual. I mean, and do a leopard library because we started with the zebra, now it's time to bring in another big bath. Yeah, the leopard. Yes. We're here today to discuss the colors you've chosen to paint your library. So as you can see, we are dressed to kill like a leopard. Excellent, excellent. So you've got a theme already and we're going to be looking at the colors then based on your theme, Fun in the Sun. Can you tell me a bit why you chose that color? I mean it's like suntanning in your library while reading that, I don't know, Daniel Steele, but you know, you want to feel like you're outside but you're inside. Well, it's a nice warm and inviting color as well. It'll make you feel comfortable in that area. Great choice, great choice. Okay, then we have a secondary color here which is Love Triangle. Yes, like Bo Clinton, you know, you want to add a bit of excitement into the library. So then it feels like you're working, but you can mix pleasure with play and work, right? So what are the chances of us choosing behind Fun in the Sun? And Love Triangle, 100%. Yes, it was a Love Triangle. Indeed. In the paint and hard we're stored. Well, I like your thinking. There's three colors you've chosen here. Having three shades is a very good idea if you want to have a look and feel as you are planning. Good. So the third color that I see you've chosen is Sterling, which is a gray. This is going to bring some neutral tone to this combination. Absolutely. With only one Sterling enough to go that wild. They definitely go nicely together. You'll be unique in the scenes that you'll be the only ones who have a library with these shades. So Heine loves the colors, I repeat. He is definitely intrigued and he feels that they're bold colors and something quite unusual to mix. And he did mention that they'll create a nice mood. Absolutely. For the room. Where I see the stone brainstorming with Melissa, we're quite more of a planned people who don't want to go very bold when it comes to colors and we're going to have fun, trust me. We thought about a pot plant. Fantastic. That and then in a warm on to the flower pots. We have some amazing colors. Maybe you guys are confused. Well, we definitely want to use your new supernatural range. It's absolutely stunning. I actually favor this one. Fantastic. It's one of my brand new colors. I love it. Yeah, I love it too. But I was also thinking about the ragged concrete. Nice. And I like this one because it has a little bit of texture. It's beautiful. Are there any other colors you guys love? Well, how about the vanilla noir? It's quite dramatic, don't you think? Yeah, and also classical. Great choice. Might make a statement. Cool. Let's try and put it together. Awesome. I think Team Bessie's ideas are brilliant. I really like the design element that they've got going and the fact that they're using different colors together in combination makes very interesting items. And we actually want to put them together like this. So if you have this there and put this together. Oh, I love that. And cut this into an angle. Yeah, fantastic. I love the design element. I love the angles and I think it'll look absolutely amazing. Exactly. Stunning idea, guys. The upside with using one of our supernatural colors is it's completely unique to Caesar Stone. The R&D team spend lots of time developing these colors. It is completely unique. It's different. And we are definitely unique. Yes. So we are having so much fun at Caesar Stone, playing with the slab and the circle doesn't want to get me to the road. I don't know why. Don't be jealous.  Yeah, but I'm afraid that she's going to lose a tooth or something. I just love, I just love Caesar Stone. I'm sorry. Okay. I have a problem. Okay. We're having a mentor meeting today with Tian and we're at the furniture store looking for an Ultraman and a desk chair. Someone on my side is actually very worried that we might not find exactly what we're looking for. The problem is not finding an Ultraman, but it is finding the right Ultraman. I mean right now I'm not really exactly sure what I want, but I will know it when I see it. So what's the idea for this room? Are you converting something into something new? Is that a repurposed room? What's the thinking? So actually thinking of creating a walk-in closet slash office space. Why is that out? He actually gave me a hassle with that. Yeah. Because he just wanted it to be a whole closet. It's an interesting room. I think it's a great idea that you guys have converted the wardrobe into a study as well so that you have a sense of purpose with that room and a multi-purpose room. So in terms of colour for the room, I know you guys always think of something clever that you want to introduce. Is there something that you're doing in this room? This time around we decided to lay off a bed from murals and strangling each other. So we decided to just keep the wall a solid colour which is like a pastel leafy green. Yeah. It's like a soft tree spring. Oh, beautiful. So based on the judge's criteria and critique last week, your curtain solution wasn't the best idea or solution for that room. So in order to get it right this week, what are you guys thinking of doing? The current problem we're having right now is that door. When it opens, it opens against the wall. Onto the curtain lock. When we were designing, we didn't think of that. So we need to find like a solution that's going to sit within something. The frame of the window. Yes. So something that filters you inside. Yeah, filters in line. Well, that's what I want to say, just be aware of the sunlight that has to come into that room. The guys had a very interesting idea to take a room and convert it into a multi-purpose space. So it's going to be a wardrobe, it's going to be a study and I think it's a clever use of space but it's also a way of expanding on the home and offering the homeowner more than the cookie-cut to kind of shape that they've been given. So it's a very clever idea, which I think is going to be cool. So we've got great options here. What are you looking for? We've got something with pattern. We've got two neutrals that's square. Are they just too dull for you? I don't see anything here working at all. Are they just too dull for you? I feel like something with more colour would work, something richer. Shall we check online? I'm sure there's something perfect for this room. Come, let's go, get up. So we're shopping for an ottoman, which seems to be far more difficult than what I thought originally. Teppel's got a very clear idea of what he wants. It needs a tick of colour, texture and the shape. I'm sure there's something out there that would suit the room perfectly. At Natural Stone Design, the Caesar Stone slab is cut according to team VC specifications. I've been busy with two plant boxes for team VC. They selected them on blank colour. I quite like the idea that they've got behind it. I think it's something that none of the other guys have actually thought of. Manufacturing process involves the following, cutting of the material. This process is done on an infrared bridge saw, which enables us to get the precise cut done for the sizes required. The next step is the polishing of the edges of the material. Our straight line polishing machine enables us to get the perfect shine on the edges right through consistently. All the water used in cutting the slabs is recycled, ensuring the process is eco-friendly. After polishing off the edges, the material goes to the miter machines where all the miter joints get cut on the tops. From there, the material goes to the gluing and assembling. This process involves all the miter cut pieces are being lined up, glued for your seamless look. The last step involves quality control, where all the pieces that's been polished and mitered and every single piece gets checked and made sure it's ready to go to the full installation. I think the plant boxes came out beautifully with them on blank colour and I wish them all the best. Thank goodness it seems the design duos are all off to a much more organised start this time round. But the spare room really is the blank canvas of the home and the design duos are really going to have to push their creativity to the limits. We'll be right back after these. The new rugged concrete from Caesar Stone, the global trendsetter in kitchen countertops. Caesar Stone. Because if it doesn't improve people's lives, it isn't Plaskon. Plaskon designed for life. A warm welcome back to Winner Home on Afternoon Express. In the first challenge, the guest bedroom team Habitat was struggling without their mentor Amanda, who was recovering in hospital. Now after the judges criticised Abiyah and Brad and suggested that they edit their design, will their mentor be back in time to help them steer to victory in the second challenge? Our queen Amanda is back and we are with her and discussing this Leopards Library. No, we're excited. I mean she's got those reins tighter because she said she wanted to realise in her birthday that we don't go over the top.  So we're looking at doing a Leopards Library but you know we want to keep it quite clean. Minimalistic, which is more in line with Habitat. And maybe play around with like the ornamentation. I love the leather. Are you considering using the leather? And we want that leather to go all the way around. She wants our library to go all the way around the room. Great. Okay, so let me show you our fabric that we selected. So this is the fabric that we came back with. We are throttling chairs that we upcycled. And so for anything that might be upholstered is our relationship which might end in a big deal, divorce. Because I didn't know, he didn't know and we ended up with this one. Right. To be honest I'm not crazy about this fabric at all. I think that a Cavalli leopard print would be a lot more suitable. Abiyah, what did I tell you? You told me about one Cavalli, I better not use that card. Okay, let's show the floor samples. Okay, so floor samples. Okay, so these are the two that we decided to go for. Right. Which we're going to use a herringbone effect. Fabulous choice guys. Okay, so let me show you our Plascon paint that we chose. We went from a double velvet to a cashmere. Okay. We stuck with true love triangle and the love of the sun. Yes. I think the love triangle with the purple undertones is going to create quite a bit of mood and possibly a bit of mysteriousness which I like and I'm looking forward to seeing.  Let's paint guys. Let's go for it. Repainting this wall didn't carry the way as we usually do. For getting Amanda standing, they're just watching these two boys. What are they up to? Painting. One coat, two coats, three coats. As you can see, they're completely into this painting. What about painting me? Oh, should have worn my overall. Huh? I'm going to invoice you from that budget. Yes, we got another budget. I'm hoping that our design duo will win the next challenge. I think the fact that they've decided to make this room a library room is a great idea. The colors work extremely well together. The only thing that perturbed me was the fabric that they chosen to cover the chair set. It is a bit crooked national parkish. I suggested that the look we want to go for is the Cavalli leopard print. We had part of the text today and we're so excited because now we've got more options like we actually have got options of a carpet or the vinyl flooring. Yes, and someone over here having too many options, it's a problem. Temple, I need you here. What do you think of this flooring? I like the darker one, but on second thoughts, I think the lighter one would work better, but that one is still nice. There you go, second. I'm not actually in my mind. I'm not the same person I was 10 seconds ago, so let me flourish. I like that one, but then let's rather look at the carpet. I think that would be better for the dressing room. You want to work on something soft after dressing. So yeah, let's go. I can't deal with this boy today. He's so indecisive. Like I can't. Hi, Jan. Oh, I'm definitely at the right place because we're looking for a carpet, something that's comfortable underfoot for our dressing room slash office space. Let's have a look at what your options are and take it from there, but it depends on taste as well. In that type of environment where it's a dressing room, I will always recommend a softer underfoot type of carpet, something like this, which is soft and very luxurious and you can feel it over there. So Jan is advising us just to make sure that we get like the carpet we really want because we're looking for something really light that that's not going to dim down the room, since we're trying to keep that whole everything light in the space. Yes, and very warm and luxury. I see you guys have a guarantee. Does that get affected when you use a commercial carpet in a residential space? Commercial carpet in a residential space will work 100% because it's manufactured more for commercial and high traffic areas. So definitely your guarantees will apply the same. It's when you use a residential product in a commercial application where you might have problems with the wear and tear of the product, but this type of product in that space 100%. All right, thank you so much. We really appreciate you. This will be very helpful. Thank you. Thank you guys. Thanks for visiting us. On the other side of Joburg, team VC are embarking on a creative collaboration to capture the essence of the urban jungle for their multipurpose study space. We decided to use a photographer called Empomo Cardi for our collaboration and Lessoho hasn't met Empoy yet, so I'm introducing Lessoho to Empor. I've worked with Empomo Cardi before and he's quite an amazing photographer. So the idea is to show people that our collaboration is not only about furniture and other stuff and pictures also pay like a big part inside an interior space. This is my baby. So Empor is a photographer and he moved to Joburg I think three years ago. So I think we can include him on our definitely, definitely. Do you know about the space? Yeah, well I shoot a lot of like urban spaces, architecture. That's perfect. That's perfect. So what we're trying to do in our room is we're trying to make it a more of a like concrete yes, but we want it to be a safe place basically. And we feel like sometimes Joburg is the safe place for certain people. So we're going to be shooting night photos and also day photos. So are you good? Yeah, I'm good man. Yeah, of course man. Sure. I am collaborating with Empor and Lessoho. Actually Empor approached me to sort of do a collab with them and I was really excited because I've known Empor for quite some time now we study together. Since I'm an urban space photographer and I do a lot of architecture, I was excited that I'm gonna have to match my work with what they're doing in terms of like their design into a library slash studio and I was quite excited to sort of bring my sense, you know, of style into it as well. Our brief is to basically capture the city from a young person's perspective. And we also want to show the angles of the building. Yeah. Old Johannesburg, new Johannesburg, absolutely everything that we see as young people in Joburg. We also think Empor is the best photographer to do this because he's worked with architectural buildings before so he knows exactly what he's doing here. It's so good to see our design duos hard at work and it's a very exciting opportunity this weekend because you could get to meet them in person. Tomorrow our design duos will be at 100% Design South Africa at the Gallagher Convention Center in Joburg. They'll be at the Media Lounge at 1.30pm. Now this is your chance to say hello and let them know what you really think of their design so far and of course get that all-important selfie with your favorite design duo. Make your way to Decorex, Joburg and 100% Design South Africa for this special meet and greet opportunity tomorrow only and lend your support to amazing local design talent. Now after the break from blowing their budget last week to upcycling this week, Team Habitat put their brands of razzle-dazzle to secondhand shopping. This is Winner Home on Afternoon Express. Now one of the biggest design trends at the moment is taking retro vintage antique pieces of decor and furniture and giving them a new lease on life in modern interiors. Now surprisingly it's Team Habitat who have chosen to go this route for their leopard library and they start their hunt for bargains at a local secondhand bookstore. We are ready to roar for our lipids library. Meow. Recalling around like lipids. Hunting for those book bargains in every category like brides always the bridesmaid never the bride. Pits. Travel. Cooking. Chicken. Obese man. Wildlife. Architecture. Biographies. Design. Every single category you can think of that you would find in the library we are hunting for that book. Man is the librarian. Man you're awfully rude. We are picking every book you can think of stacks on stacks on stacks book book book book. And although we're not much readers. Ourself. Yes. Those books got our attention and we had a little power nap and opened up a book just to calm my nerves. We are at the hospice furniture section. I'm busy trying out some cheese. Next thing I turn around a beer is crawling on a table. And then on the other side look at this beautiful dresser. Yes mirror what's a dresser without a mirror. While looking at myself in the mirror just thinking about whether to buy this dress or not we see this radio like vented to the core but still playing. I mean we turned it. We turned it up in their charity shop. Sure I mean it was yes yes charge it charge it. I definitely think the hospice should be paying a slam for my royalties because we turned it up in there. Sure love this antique furniture. All it needs is to be brought back to life. Honey maybe with some of this artwork. Decorating doctors let's bring this back to life. Boom. Would you put that one not too bad. Yes no maybe. Yes no maybe. Maybe. Maybe I didn't put maybe. Yes no maybe but I know this is a yes. Boom. Boom. Cover girl. That's watch. Sure. So what were you reading Feng Shui. How do you apply the secrets of Chinese wisdom for health, wealth and happiness. We need some of that for our room. We need a lot of that. Honey we didn't win the last room so we bit it. I mean sure. Our Feng Shui is a fabulous. Yeah. It's very important for us to check out the functionality of the pieces while shopping. Absolutely. I mean what's the point of having a dining room table if it can't hold massive. Or a stiletto that's not going to get you down the street. Or a mirror dresser if you can't see yourself. So we really do like to test it out before we drive out with it. Or try it on. As team habitat dances to the beats of their own drum. Team VC is getting horticultural advice from their mentor Annamarie Mankis. We are looking at palm trees for their Caesar stone planter. And I'm very impressed with the fact that they also came on a very large tree. But the price is very important. I would have gone skyrocketed but they concerned about their budget. I'm so glad you decided on a palm tree and that you are going for one instead of two. But if you get one you must make a statement. It must be big. Annamarie is shopping with us and she advises that we go for a bigger full palm tree. I'm a slender type of a guy. So I wanted that palm tree to be like a slender. Maybe not. You see. Okay. Where her boots are. So we're going to score that much. So I think it'll be you can go. It's too high. I think it's quite big. No I don't think so. But maybe this one is better. I want a bonsai in this room specifically because I think it's a nice activity to do when you're clearing your mind and working. We wanted to go with a bonsai in our room because we wanted the owner of the room to have something to do when he is thinking and so that he can keep his fingers busy while his mind is working. So what we're looking for is a 6000 rand one or a 7000 rand one. Okay no no no all jokes aside these are really beautiful but they're very expensive and unless you have an oriental theme in the room if there's something Japanese or Chinese I wouldn't go for that. Let's go and see if we can't get a thorn tree. Something local. Exactly. These are beautiful. Nine years old. This is nine years old. Here's but how much is it? Five hundred and fifty. There's no bad. There's no bad. Are you sure this is nine years old? I wouldn't lie to us. We don't have to decide right now so we're still going to think about it a little bit. Yeah I'm not sure if we have time because of but we we got the palm tree. Yeah perfect. Team VC is blissfully unaware that they're not the only design duo who has approached photographer Paul Muchadi for a collaboration. Could this cause conflict between the rival duos? We're so excited to finally get to work with you. Yeah I'm so excited to work with you guys. So basically what we have in mind is for one of your works to win against this wall since we're going to be having like a floating desk over here so I think can like really look at some of the stuff we have for us. Yeah sure I mean this is my recent travel to Barcelona. It was so fun that I just decided to just go and like scouted buildings and Barcelona just came in my mind. It was one building we saw. That's what we loved. Yeah it's the hotel theater in Barcelona. Paul so how did you capture it? It looks so insane. Actually I struggled a lot because you know when you don't have time to shoot you also have to consider lighting as well. I saw it and I had to like come the following day to actually you know shoot the project. It looks like fabric like the textures of the building. It does. It does. So I guess it will complement as well your space as well because of the texture. But that's definitely the one that we're going for. Would you be able to print it for us and then we'll collect it to frame it? Yeah it's a limited edition so only a few people will have this uh photograph so it's even better. I really appreciate that. Thank you so much. Thank you. So as we're working out with him umpa designer comes over and tells us that he's using the same photograph I have. Yes. And we're like oh okay. I actually was in surprise to be honest. Yeah it's because I mean it's a very small world like the art one it's like tiny dots. And what is this?  So we're collaborating with umpa Makati and all of a sudden I'm looking for water in the universe so that I can clean the room and I'm like boom there goes the guy and I'm like dude aren't you supposed to do this with us? I'm also doing a collaboration with umpa are you guys away? We're in realising you're collaborating with him as well. It's exciting to work with both of you guys and yeah I mean. Okay I'm not on that. I'm not happy with you. But yeah it's fine guys let's see how it's gonna look. Yeah. Gotcha. Cool. So I was not quite pleased with what happened but then what I think maybe it's all about how we're going to implement his work into our own space and how they're going to implement it as well. It's gonna get saucy as it's game on in the battle of the collabs between team VC and team House and Leisure. Now as the competition heats up between the design duos don't forget that the big winner here could be you. While they decorate these cluster homes at Eye of Africa estate make sure you enter the winner home grand prize competition to stand a chance of winning your choice of one of those three completed homes as decorated by our design duos a prize valued at over three million rand. Simply visit privateproperty.co.za click on that winner home icon on say very simple question and then vote for your favorite design duo to enter. Remember that by entering you also automatically get entered into our new bi-weekly competition where this time round you can win a plus gone paid voucher to the value of five thousand rand. I can also announce that the winner of last week's bi-weekly prize the Sealy Postrophedic Bed is Felix Nkosi who voted for team House and Leisure. Congratulations and enjoy your prize and while you dream of that future estate lifestyle after the break it's time for another installment of our property advice segment brought to you by private property and this week Jeannie gets schooled on the legal side of estate living because if it doesn't improve people's lives it isn't plus gone plus gone designed for life. Search for a home on any device anytime anywhere. Private property a home for everyone. So with winner home now in full swing here on afternoon express we are transforming ourselves into experts in all things estate living. We're exploring various aspects related to buying and living on estates and today we discuss legal aspects related to living in an estate. Joining us today is Lisa Boniface welcome. Yeah thanks for having me. So lovely to see you. Yeah great. Now I want to know in terms of running the properties what is the main body responsible for either the freestanding or the sectional title within an estate. Okay so Jeannie let's start with the freehold yeah that's run by the homeowners association so the developer forms a non-profit company under the company's act and that's governed by a memorandum of incorporation and that authorizes a set of rules so generally those rules are governed and controlled by your homeowners association and in your sectional title you deal with the body corporates and the body corporate is formed as soon as one of the units is transferred from the developer's name into a new owner's name the body corporate comes into existence and every person that buys into a sectional scheme becomes a member of a body corporate. Automatically. Yes. Okay now I want to know a little bit more detail so let's break it down let's go to the homeowners association so I assume that's just homeowners. Yes. What are their roles their obligations their responsibilities and what exactly does it mean to be part of the homeowners association. Okay so what the homeowners association controls and administers is the communal property in a in a state so for instance your clubhouses your golf courses the streets and all the communal areas that everybody utilizes in that particular state they ensure the governance of those they ensure that a levy is provided for and money is collected and the upkeep of all of those items are controlled by them. Okay so and what you find as well is the a homeowners association is becomes the owner of those communal areas. All right but a homeowners association wouldn't then be involved in like a neighbor's developments or renovations or anything or do they also have a say. Well remember like I said to you before Gini there is architectural guidelines and when you buy into an estate you buy into their rules and they would then control those rules through their memorandum of incorporation with which authorizes things like house rules and estate rules and architectural guidelines so they would ensure good governance of those items. So for example if everybody's house in the estate has to be white you can't go and paint yours pink. No definitely exactly they want us to live in harmony. Yeah I think I love when it's like that. Now let's look at the body corporate how does that differ and what exactly are then the roles the obligations and the responsibilities of the body corporate. So the body corporate is really responsible for ensuring that the rules management and conduct rules are complied with that they establish a fund and that the money is collected in that fund and this then goes to the upkeep of the property and running the body corporates essentially. So that's exactly what they're involved with is just running the common property the day-to-day running of a scheme as well as establishing a fund controlling that fund and then ensuring things are looked after. Okay so let's have a look at an estate like I have Africa for example where their sectional title and their free standing homes who is then the body and what is the difference how can they work in harmony together. So generally when you buy into an estate and you purchase a sectional title unit in that estate you automatically become an owner or you have to acknowledge and consent to becoming an owner of the home owners association. So the home owner association is the controlling body and that would mean then that you would need to comply with their rules with their memorandum of incorporation so they definitely the controlling body and you would need to comply with their rules as well as your own management and conduct rules within your scheme and there can also be two levies payable in that regard. So that's something that a buyer must definitely look into when buying into an estate and if you are buying into a sectional scheme you'll have levies for the body corporate within your scheme as well as for the home owners association. So look after those communal areas as well. Brilliant thank you so much for telling us. No it's a pleasure thanks for having me. I'm definitely very clued up now on property. Now the grand prize and winner home is your choice of one of three fully designed cluster homes at the I of Africa Gulf and residential estate. To enter the grand prize competition visit privateproperty.co.ca and click on the winner home icon to answer an easy question and vote for your favorite designed duo. Keep a look out to each week for more property advice right here on Win A Home and remember that when you enter the grand prize competition you automatically get entered into the bi-weekly draw where this time you could win a Plaskon voucher to the value of five thousand rand. Now coming up we find out how far those designed duos are with their spare rooms at the halfway mark of the challenge. Welcome back this is Win A Home on Afternoon Express. Now if you've just joined us today's show is all about that all-important spare room the second challenge for our designed duos and they have total creative freedom but the space cannot be a bedroom. So Team VC have chosen to do a multipurpose study slash children. Team House and Leisure are creating a shared wardrobe and home office and Team Habitat are building a library. Now with all of these exciting ideas coming along nicely it's time for me to take a look at how the progress is going. Time management was a huge learning curve for all the duos in the previous challenge with loads of cupboards to be installed. Team House and Leisure made certain this mammoth task got underway as soon as possible. Yuhu anybody home? Hello Team House and Leisure. Winners of challenge one how's it going? That's interesting. All right so they're clearly ready for the end of challenge two is that okay? It is okay. It's fine. I'm just gonna sit here and not break anything as the drama unfolds. My goodness. Letting everything out here and the rest of it on the floor. Interesting. All right so half way through the challenge how's it going?  How's it all been planning out? Is it going to be on time? So far everything is looking good because they're busy with the built-in cabinets right now and the only thing that we still waiting for it's the table. The chair's already here for the table and the sizzle stone that has to go in the wardrobe. Okay so remind us what you had planned. What's the overall vision? The idea was to have a like a working closet since we removed like the built-in cabinets from the main bedroom. So just to make it a bit more interesting not a traditional working closet we added like a little informal office space. Which you didn't want. But then now I think it's a good idea. It makes the space much more multifunctional. So as you walk into the space the focal point is going to be the office sitting area and then you realize that it's more than just an office sitting like an office setup. There are built-in cabinets as well. Which are also hidden because there's a mirror finish and it basically reflects the rest of the room and it adds more lighting because it bounces the light. And also we've got the chandeliers which we're very excited about like they coming all the way from Cape Town and they're going to hang almost like a spider pattern and then we also've got custom barbs which also they different like would pay attention to the detail like that they have character in each one of them. Did you guys learn any lessons from the last challenge? I mean are you guys going to finish on time or are there any issues so far? It looks like everything will be ready now and we actually planned that we need to plan much more. Yeah so planning is that one thing we need to hit one. Yes. Right I want to go take a look can I? Go for it. Actually we should have a bite. It's subtle. The paint colors are great. I like what they've done with the space. My worry always is that it's a little bit unconventional like who would have an office and a walking closet at the same time. But I think in so many ways perhaps it's multi-purpose. Well done guys. Hope you guys like it. And here we are. I'm very excited for this one. Team Habitat always have the biggest and boldest ideas. What? Guys I expected so much more. There's literally just concrete on the floor and paint on the walls. Not even that's complete. Abiyah, Brad. Why is no one ready? You plan to plan. Abiyah, Brad. No one's here. Guys what the heck? What's going on? Well as you can see absolutely nothing. What happened? Sure I'm trying to hide from you Dinaloa. Last time we learned that you plan and then you stick to the plan. This time around we stuck to our plan. I mean we were even early for the first time and no one's here. Our carpenters are delayed. The flooring is still going to go in. The painters have just done the first coat. Chandeliers coming but I don't know when that's also arriving. I don't know if that's going to fail. I'm hearing a lot of blaming of other people but you guys had a whole nother challenge before this one to learn these lessons. Why are you still behind schedule? I swear. I'm not even going to laugh. If we planned it any more in advance we'd be planning the pancakes. I mean it's really, really, no honestly it's like it's not to pass the blame. It's just one of those. We really drew up a really strict like plan. So if someone doesn't arrive I guess you just got to take the hammer into your own hands and today we're going DIY. Okay well let's think optimistically. What still needs to be done? What's the vision? What's the plan? A library? Shelving. That's the shelving guy. That whole room's supposed to be shelved. Hitting in some nails. Not painting our nails this time. And then we have to decorate those shelves. Like I mean we ordered shelves for days so it's like we're not just going to leave them plain because we do like to go big but then it's like again in the same situation as last time. I will be honest and it's like big dreams take big plans and I love it. I love it.  We can't lose again. No. It's time to put on our roller skates and get... I'll be damned if we lose again. No! No. Last week Team VC were critiqued on not showing more creativity and personality in their room. This time they're expressing their style with a fun paint technique as part of a feature wall using Plaskon's Nautilus color. Be careful with this. So Team VC getting their hands dirty. Hello you two. This looks pretty interesting. As hard at work as you guys look, I'm very worried. I just see paint on the walls. Nothing else is in here. You guys are going to be done. We're going to get everything down on time. It's all about time management. I think we're on the right track so we're not stressing. Our finish is waiting for us in the other room. You can ask them. So we have everything here. We just need to put it together as soon as our floors are down. This looks interesting. Tell me about what the plan is with this piece on the wall. We're doing like a paint technique effect which is going to look very awesome. Just give us two hours and we'll be done. What is the idea then of the whole space? So this room is basically going to be a safe place for our clients. We want him to come in here rest and relax. He enjoys music. He enjoys photographs. He enjoys studying, reading. So what we're going to do is have a study slash music room slash library where he can just relax. So on this wall here we're going to display one of his prized photos which was a collaboration we did with Pomukhadi on photographs around Josie. And we're taking off with being a pole somewhere so I'm not sure we're going to have it. Because it's relaxing. Yeah. One thing I've always wanted to do is get my hand involved in the artwork so can I add my two cents? You can just let me put a little bit of this over here and then you can blow. Yeah there we go. Look at that. Hey now. If you win this home you can win my personal touch too. Lovely guys. We'll get back to it. Thanks then. Good luck. I want to see a finished product and I want it to be brilliant. Thank you. True to their word the pace of work does indeed quicken at all three homes. There's a real sense of purpose as the tradesmen bring the duo's vision to life and it's exciting to see their spare rooms take shape as each specialist adds their input. Now that you've seen some of what the design duos are planning let us know what you think of their spare rooms so far. Follow WinnerHome on social media and use that all important hashtag win a home to share your thoughts and comments. Next week we reveal the completed spare rooms and it's anyone's guess if Team Habitat will get the victory they feel that they deserve. That's if they even finish on time. Plus whose photographic collaboration will come out on top when the judges come to visit. Will it be Team VC or Team House and Leisure? I'm imagining some drama. 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Alrighty, so I have a really different video today. I had to make this video. I was going to post the rant on Instagram and then I was like, you know what? I'm gonna make a video about it. I'm gonna express my opinions. They're not anything too negative. In fact, I think it's quite the positive message to get out there. So for anyone that's on the roller coaster community side of Instagram, you'll kind of understand where this is coming from and hopefully you get a positive message out of this rant. So I want to touch on this whole kind of communities place that we kind of go to and it's not everyone. It's actually a very small portion of the community and it tends to be on Instagram mostly, but a lot of people like to hate on new rides. I've noticed it and maybe it's just because I'm new to the community like within the year that I've just noticed this more or recently, but a lot of people hate on new coasters a lot more than they did when I first joined. It seems to be becoming more of a trend than it used to be even just a year ago. I.e. Maxforce. Maxforce is just one example. I'm gonna touch on a couple. So a lot of people are hating on Maxforce lately for its length and I don't understand it. Maxforce looks like an amazing goaster. I wish my park was getting Maxforce, not over Yukon Stryker. I love Yukon Stryker and I'm not saying Yukon Stryker is better than Maxforce by the way. I'm just saying I like the addition I'm getting, but Maxforce is an addition. I would love to have it Canada's Wonderland two years from now even, even if it's a clone would love to have it. I don't understand the hate of it just because it's short. I look at rides like Topical Dragster and those things are just a short and they're amazing. Maxforce has awesome elements. Then I look at White Whale. White Whale is another coaster that is being hated on now and I don't understand it. I come from a park Canada's Wonderland is my home bar and we have My Muster and Wild Beast. So when I see a coaster like White Whale I am in full awe. That ride looks absolutely amazing. I would love it at my home park. I don't understand what people are looking at and going, oh, boring. We should not be hating on new coasters. This is kind of why I think Hark's looking enthusiast now and kind of don't want to work with enthusiasts as much as they used to in the past because I feel like a lot of enthusiasts and again, not necessarily a lot but there's a portion of them that hate on roller coasters because they're not steel vengeance or they're not this 18 looping 300 mile per hour coaster. And it makes it really difficult for the rest of the community to enjoy these awesome additions. So when I post a picture, for example, of White Whale people going, oh, it's overrated. I'm like, this thing's not even done being built. How is it overrated? Just because I'm enjoying an awesome picture of it doesn't mean it's overrated. Again, I come from a park with very minimal wooden coasters that really do do nothing. So White Whale is an amazing coaster. Now, when I post a picture of it, it's not me saying it's better than steel vengeance. I've never made that statement but I most certainly don't think it's overrated. I just don't understand this whole argument that it has to be steel vengeance now or if your home park isn't Cedar Point or Magic Mountain, we can't enjoy these coasters we're seeing built elsewhere. I mean, even Wicker Man got a lot of hate over in Europe and I just don't understand it. These are fantastic additions. So the end of the day, I just think we all need to enjoy roller coasters that are being announced and built because these parks are getting new additions. That's step one to being a better park. I will enjoy any new roller coaster that is coming to a park. And I will say also, we are all guilty deep down here and there for hating on roller coasters that don't deserve it. I would say Kentucky Kingdom is a prime example of that. Anyways, I just wanted to get that message out there. Maybe as a community we can be less hateful on roller coasters that are being built. Maybe we can be more appreciative of newer coasters that are being built and maybe we shouldn't find the flaws in roller coasters and celebrate them more so. I just wanted to get this message out there. Hope you guys enjoyed this video. Hit that like button, subscribe if you haven't and share this video for others to enjoy. Have a good one guys, bye.