My Design Rules Episode 12 Final Touches for Apartment | Sponsored by Private Property

[Music] my design rules is sponsored by Cy Tech better never [Music] rests previously on my design rules our dueling Duos completed their lounges and it was a photo finish Team Air taking the challenge just ahead of Team Earth with each of the room winners now decided just one week remain s to complete these four competing visions and for the judges to rule who will be ground the winners along with the grand prize of 300,000 Rand from capy Tech Plus another 100,000 Rand from capy tech for the viewers favorit time to fix the snags those rough incomplete not quite right details of each room while implementing the judges feedback from throughout the competition as the final day of judging looms large she's a mess yeah there's a lot of fix here but I mean at least we've already started with priming our wall so that we can paint it the same color as our fireplace wall yeah so that's going to match nicely with our wooden and then also give a nice transition to our cupboards I didn't really like the different Blues so I'm glad that we're fixing that we also need to add crown molding on our walls we feel like that's going to almost like replicate our design in the lounge and make it feel more unified and as one so we need to do crown molding on this wall on that wall and then also on our TV wall so what are we doing with the green uh personally I think the marble will be compromised um and I don't want to take the responsibility for that but the thing is like you said we removing the green like it can't go back and forth back and forth like we need to make a decision and stick to the decision I'm willing to take it off okay if you are willing to take the responsibility then I say let's box it up and take it off but like can we work together on this because it's just it can't just be me yeah yeah definitely let's box it up and try our hardest yeah to not break the marel no so why everywhere final decision no going back and forth yeah um first thing that's very prominent that's in your face our curtain fell off I don't know how maybe we need Ghostbusters to come in and know do some some some chick over here but I don't know who's doing this vooty on us man yeah we need to we need to take care of that we need to lift this mirror up and make it simus on the wall I don't know how we going to achieve that because the the mirror needs to be hang on the wall and now it makes it quite complicated and difficult to be trying to achieve that simless touch um but you know we'll see what I can do with it that snake is probably one of the most difficult ones we have the same um wallpaper that we have in our kitchen our ceiling and yeah just like a just mind the things that are still missing tiles here and there yeah we have to finish up this door here inside but we also need some strip lights yeah strip lights also we need strip light F our mirror um that was supposed to be a feature but future time and also tiing was quite hectic so we had to leave that off for the very end but we're getting on that ASAP we've already done the changing of the island front it was a mirror little bit unsafe we've now cladded it with a counter top that's done this space of year was quite empty um so Emy and I we had a discussion about this a long thought and decided to do this with a tile from ctm and yeah I think it came out very well so as you can see in here a lot has changed since the judging we have curtains up the Tula wall is finally up we've got some hooks to go with it so we're going to hang some art on those two hooks and then this is for like hats gowns whatever as we go along we just getting a grip on everything and uh sorting out little bits and pieces sort of like building a puzzle right welcome Toy Kingdom so I am personally still a little bit salty coming off of the lounge verdict you know placing forth when you really love what you've done is a hard P to swallow but we swallow it anyway onto the kitchen yes can you handle the heat on each on that side see you there kitchen we have a stove top at last which is great that wasn't here for our kitchen judging love love that for us um the dishes need to be done we have running water a bit more Lighting in here which looks lovely yeah in this corner we've got both a hole in the wall and a hole in the wall two holes don't make a ride we've got a door for our toilet I mean we've got a room within a room which I love yes and I feel like this beautiful baby that's been installed um could possibly catapult us to first place I like the sound of that for more inspiration with their finishing touches and seeking that final Winning Edge team fire visits a pair of trend setting tambur CL properties we have always loved Tambo GL so I just know that this is going to speak to us so important to get out and get inspiration from The Real World as much as we love looking online there's nothing like the real thing so going to take note of all the details and can't wait so we've got this business called stay with us in Cape Town and this business specifically is focused on bespoke experiences for travelers to Cape Town and we want to unlock some value in some of the properties that we have yeah I mean first impression is yeah it screams Hannah and Katon so yeah we're so happy to be here my eyes are obviously drawn to the Wana the floor yes the so we also did this um on our floors in the interior of our apartment so it's really nice to see that it can be done because a lot of people think it's controversial but yeah we feel slightly Vindicated actually the clumpy finish actually we wanted to sort of get something that will work with ours aage wise so something that doesn't feel foreign that you know when you actually arrive here that it feels like it's been here always yes this is the second oldest house in tomur SL w oldest one was demolished so now officially it's the oldest the oldest and the bottom of the house was used for a dairy um so it's it's quite interesting to see at the bottom how the spaces are defined by obviously the dairy and the activities that went on here yeah sense get a feel for that yeah that's very honest I mean it's like an old farmouse literally so with this bedroom the main aim was really to get natural light in and also to connect it to the outside space so basically what we did here is to take this wall out and it really brought a lot of light natural light in there was weird glass bricks on that side so we also got these beautiful Heritage um double doors that you could open up and you directly connected to the Terrace and the Garden on that side and you can see t mountain if you go of course smart how do you balance Heritage and modernizing it at the same time obviously with pieces if you look at certain pieces you can see it's there at each piece and then other finisher pieces are a lot more modern I think it's also how you use space space were very in the older days very compartmentalized where when we design houses now it's a lot more open plan it flows a lot more easier so just sort of bring those principles in and I mean we did that by just by opening everything up and really look at the flow of the space and that sort of a more contemporary use of the space holy so guys I actually would love to go and show you the property next door I think it's not the same Clum piece but something different and I think you need to see that as well okay guys so welcome we call this our Penthouse apartment so it's 140 Square Apartment a three-bedroom apartment and we decided again like we did next door to make it a two-bedroom because of that space it's literally just us again I feel like this is really speaking to our design style and also kind of reaffirming that we kind of have figured out what our Vibe is every every single piece seems you know well thought out and considered so yeah it's just yeah I love when you walk into spaces and you almost can't name where a product has come from you it feels like one of a kind and it really feels like that in this space to unlock the value I would say you have to have the end point in mind when you start developing that property so if it's going to be ABNB or rental or long-term lease or whatever so you're going to develop it according to the market that you're going for and then you can have a focused process to unlock that value whether you're searching on the value side looking for a candidate for your designed Vision or seeking more of that standout kind of property at the top end of the market private property has something in tambor's cluff and all around South Africa to fit any budget all just a click away on privateproperty.co.za guys that is that is the mountain all right oh my word there's lion's head wearing its beautiful head so Exquisite so when investing in properties I think one of the most important thing is location and then the feel that you get from the property the the moment I walk into a property I know if this is going to work or not we often come and just have a class of Lely and as you should as you should oh man we so love looking at your apartment M yeah M the views are incredible it's so us we are just so inspired as well I'm glad you enjoy it yeah the views are very very special oh and everything you've done on the inside as well we saw a lot of ourselves in this day yeah the the Retro elements and the attention to the to the nooks it's just yeah it's so incredible chef's kiss yeah coming up look up look down look out there's waterproofing that needs doing in every direction and it's all hands on deck whether you're looking for a lock up and go or a settle down and grow an office for your booming business or a safe haven we have a space for you now just one look at what it takes to waterproof the garages confirms this is a job for St Goan what follows is little short of a masterclass so when faced with an instance like this where there's no waterproofing applied to a retaining wall so we have to talk positive and negative waterproofing so this is obviously waterproofing the positive side of this retaining wall so what I would do is recommend that the wall is uh inspected thoroughly before applying torch on membrane to it so we would obviously put bamin primer onto the the wall before applying two formal layers of the aidex torchon membrane which will be our dual reinforced membrane after the two layers of formal membrane are applied to the wall we would then protect it with our Abid drain layer which is a protective membrane as well as a drainage layer that helps with drainage of water that may sit on this wall as well as protecting the torch on me brain from back filling so we'll obviously take it all the way down to the foundation footing and all the way to the top and counter flash once you get to the ground level at least 150 above ground level we counter flash with a super Lake roll or a duroflex for counter flashing when redesigning waterproofing on balconies is just as important and St gobain has everyone rethinking What Lies Beneath their feet so we want to put clumpies on the floor here on our balcony what would you recommend we do in terms of waterproofing for our balcony I see that there are some cracks on the topping um so what I would recommend is we take topping away assess the slab see if there's any cracks going through the slab and then determine what system we would use so there's two options it would be either the jlex slurry or we would use a torch on membrane in terms of grouting for our clumpy what are some things that we need to look out for being close to the Sea into the ocean um the external conditions plays a part in your grouting and your adhesive um so we always recommend as a good procedure to use bonded in your adive and in your grouting you spoke about clumpy which is a really historical and and old application and and back in the day they used to want the grout line really thick to give you that look that they're wanting uh I would suggest with a normal grout you don't go that wide so go up to 8 mm with your grout line uh today I'm busy fixing all our gr snakes basically it's just here and there where these little indentations of the gr um there not probably proper filled um I'm just refilling that tools that I'm going to use is a motor caulking gun allows you for much cleaner look and much clean line um when you gr preparing for Cape Town's Four Seasons in one day it pays to have energy efficient insulation it's proper heat up here might have some thermal issues and here's the man of the hour how you doing good you I'm so good you thanks for coming through and being a part of this definitely can feel that we might have some issues with already temperature and that's why I'm dying to know more about your product man talk to me about airite what exactly is this all about basically what airite is it's a product made from recycled glass and sand and it's an insulation product that you put inside your ceiling void so what the product does it actually blocks temperature coming inside the unit so it's got some air gaps inside and just how the product is is manufactured so that's a beautiful thing about iser insulation is that your temperature from external will not affect your inside temperature but the flip side is also quite important right so once you've heat up this room or made it warm or colder the product actually prevents heat loss back into the ceiling void so that speaks to energy saving right and that's perfect for our designers and our deos that are working this space I just got back from Buco I got the Golden Mile paint from darham and and I got some other goodies zo needed some painters made for was now so that's going to come in handy I got another big paintbrush for the lime wash which we'll use this for we're currently lime washing the wall that's behind us it's our curve feature wall in our bedroom so we want to play with some different colors and textures and just bring in some visual interest into our bedroom lime wash works by using two different colors next to each other we used ice cream contain ERS and you get a big brush that can fit in both containers and you kind of put half of the brush in one color half of the other brush in another color and then once you apply it on the wall you do do like a crisscross pattern it just gives like a nice texture a nice different look and Fa the two different colors that we use for this slime wash is uh darham golden mild which is the darkest shade and then dar's peny shell it's the lightest shade and then that's the color that to use for fireplace W how does this material look in here so good I think it's really going to pop you know it's going to drap beautifully on the clumpy it's so amazing thank you home Fabrics we love you so when have you had a fear of heights since Kon since 10 minutes ago actually I'm going to go get lunch by we currently visi with our snags and our balcony uh we have bangal Hy currently our balcony with clumpies it's looking really good always trusted Uncle Hy a very good Tyler so yeah just check out un's work it's really nice I can't wait to see this balcony uh in its full Glory wider grouting with clumpy tiling is popular but using the prog grip cladding from ctm Z has five mil spacing for a reason this keeps the grouts from cracking and this keeps the lines straight and everything looking so seamless so yeah just consider your spacings whenever you're tiling uh for outdoors of course you have to use a bigger spacing so that like the the the the crouching sort of like shines so the grouching comes through the Duos are all taking a Hands-On approach to getting the job done I am busy with our snakes studying our doors so this is a white wash that I'm doing with a stain the difference between paint and stain on doors or on wood you leave the Grain and it it enhances the grain a little bit more while paint is actually just a coat of color that you paint over it you'll cover that completely baby boy hey girl please grab that side oh wow oh you guys here for the couch I'll be I'm here I'm here just you mind if we just no can you please we need a three seater guys we need a three seater but is this a four-seater no that's definitely three is that a three we chose the two-seater it's a two-seater be a three seater well all the judges critique of us is that it was proportionally wrong actually let's go measure this like okay let's let's go there and check like what's happening I'll be there Judge Judy yes yes okay so this comes up to please push it for me this side this situation is much better than keeping this yeah that's cool that's the ni space to work party yeah couch problem put to rest up next with each team running on nervous energy and not much else a good night's sleep is top of everyone's list [Music] find your wonderful Jacobs [Music] vindar this motivating moment for team fire came courtesy of The Bold and intense Taste of Jacob's southeast Asia instant coffee cheers my man cheers Hanah what do we do when we've got a lot to do make some coffee relax but that's good cuz that's how we ground ourselves okay do you have the snag list in your mind because I wait let me let this kick in first okay the biggest thing to me is grouting can I have to put my CDM hat on again and but so good at it by now come on I love it I'm so passionate about grouting it's just that it's that paint little touchups painting touchups it's minor thing what else like I'm like styling styling oh yeah but we're going to strip everything down yum so y it's kicked in is it we got this well let's go we currently need to look for a light for our Powder Room what what kind of style do you think we should go for I think we should go for a pendant lights because we already have a wall mounted lights on the other side just for like balance what type of shf do you think like Square gloss gold uh maybe something a bit rounded you know but not too big do you think we should go for something subtle or something that's like I think it's a whole party room is very subtle so maybe like a like a wow a wow yeah that kind of cool I know Amy and Josh has something similar I mean Las is a wall mounted we're going for pendants pendant so do we just risk it yeah I think we should risk it I feel like this feels like water yeah it feels like a nice bubble yeah we should definitely risk it so this one yeah this one yeah I really love this and then a mounted light that will mat yeah let's just look do we want our war mounted light to match our pigment um not necessarily but then if you can find something that matches it that would be nice but if we find something that matches it then it's going to be Josh and Amy but so I think we should take something that maybe reads the same language but not exactly the same so look and feel basically this is plant kingdom our little Oasis on site yes we yeah keeping all our plants drained and making sure all the side dust isn't getting to them cuz it really kills a plant we finally have water on site yes very exciting stuff guys Hannah Make It Rain on them babies okay don't go chasing waterfalls let's s to the rivers and the actually I can't remember the lyrics I'm going to cut this so I'm removing all the hardware of the store with the Ryobi screwdriver um just so that I can sand it with the ri sander nice and smooth I'm doing all these extra bits and so that we get a really clean finish so a better end result guys I'm just leveling things out here with my Stanley spirit level I've measured everything out so wish me luck I have never felt more Butch in my life I need to use this draw we need to drop our painting to the daytim line of the door frame and yeah I've got my Stanley spirit level I've got my Ryobi draw and yeah I I'm up to the top TK today we're going to fix all our snags on the seatings and hopefully we'll be in time for the final judging this partu from Durham is specifically it's a premium matte range the matte dulls The Contours on the seiling itself so if there's little maybe small indentations or stuff your eye won't catch those small indentations in the ceilings small imperfections um so this is a very good product to use the premium mat range the nice thing about Daren paint is when you've got a little bit paint patches on your hands just go under water wash a little bit and it will come off very easily is she level Stanley says yes okay but now I got to get this view from a different vantage point so I'm going to go around the kitchen and then I can really judge would you look at that I'm very happy with what I've been doing here just filling up these gaps with silicone it's looking good already I just have to clean it up properly and like you see there's like yellow smudges where like the cloth was coming off so I have to like repaint around these edges and just like make sure it's cleaned properly if I take this light casing you can see like the difference you know so yeah guys just finished off The Powder Room I had to just kick that out the park you know now the main Suite just like small touches cuz you know focusing on detail here we have to make sure that the judges are happy and I'm happy with my work you know I always say I want my work to speak for itself so yeah so we are grouting right now and the grouting is grouting we really like the crown molding that was in our lounge and it's almost like our signature design cuz we did it in the ctm bathroom challenge so we're currently installing crown molding in our bedroom as well just so it speaks the same language and the SPAC is read really well together I'm currently fixing the crowning once the all using D this time yesterday we used clue so I'm using nails so that can be perly fixed and through the water and then after that will pain off I've only sended three panels This the third panel and there's two more to go yeah I know it's very easy to overlook these panels because they're like hidden underneath the desk we just like take our time just to make sure like everything is perfect for painting proud designers themselves team Earth are giving serious props to what their Samsung products bring to the party from the Samsung appliances they played a very very big role in tying up the space together if you look at the kitchen our Island beautiful beautiful LX stove there and just our appan is in the kitchen just to complete the look but out of them all the surf TV that you have in a bedroom is a winner for me personally Samsung brought a lot of luxury into the space their products are just they just speak for themselves and like they just bring that Vena you know just ahead will a lighting choice or wood wash be the downfall or the secret to a great design and what a difference a dick May [Music] Beast pooke the building looks amazing I really like the way they've modernized it but also I have kept the Heritage about it yeah know that building is looking like a country girl that went to the city and never forgot where she's come from man she hot one of the beauty secrets helping the Silver Fox look so hot is her new decking from Everlast we've seen it stand up to time the elements and prove itself a keeper I'm absolutely loving how this deck is looking so far but talk to me about the process of how you put this all together this is on a waterproof area it's a raise deck we use a little Titan support pedestal that we use it protects the waterproofing yeah so the frame is down and then we level it out with the pedestals underneath make sure we're happy with the level and then we start laying boards then the deck goes on that's the quick part the boards now Johan what I know from the old traditional wooden style decking is that there was a lot of movement sometimes the wood would warp as well and you see a lot of changes in the structure over time is that a similar case with this cup of decking yeah there is still a lot of movement in the composite as long as you don't go out of the the limits then you can't control it esally with this one you'll see we've left some gaps here we're going to put one deing board in the opposite direction each board is working individually they're working together now Ashley once our decking is completely installed what exactly do you think it can handle I mean is it event and dance proof very event in dance proof you guys can dance on it you can drink your drinks on it you can spool your drinks on it provided you clean it up it's stain resistant scratch resistant moisture resistant as well so when we've got our rain coming in our High sun exposure here in the the Cape Town City the digging board to handle all of that now I remember doing a lot of the judging out here and it literally just felt like a construction site so feeling this situation I can imagine so many incredible memories being made here and wow what a place to celebrate when I walk onto Sid and I saw the deck and the Escape gray it just like does something to this space and I can imagine people bring and from a Heritage point Point we've really also showed that you don't always need to change so much on a Heritage building you can really run with what there was and just essentiate what was originy there and I think by doing that you kind of give new life and just a fresh breath into old building and looking at this you can see it didn't break the bank but we got that amazing product in the end to find out how much you can do without having to submit plans we check in with city building inspector Damen Christians I think of the people watch the show they are going to be inspired to make their own changes at home what sort of changes can they do in the property that maybe doesn't need approval from City you allow to do general maintenance to your property without triggering building PL submissions for example uh if you want to redo your kitchen cabinets if you want to add paints curtains buil-in Cupboards in your bedrooms items like that that are superficial that don't require any building work or demolition work won't require plan so the rule of is when you demolish walls or you adding rooms or you're doing internal changes that requires building new walls etc etc will trigger a building plan approval and I always advise the clients to make communication with your local Authority do things the right way so that there won't be any hiccups and hurdles going forward in the way Sola is your best friend when it comes to water heating costs and Ingo h of Steel elron brings a wealth of energy saving tips to sight everybody has a heat pump at home it's our fridge and if you touch the fridge at the back it's always warm right you're heating your kitchen with your fruit being cooled in the fridge so and this is how a heat pump works instead of wasting now the heat to your kitchen we wrap something around our tank and we use this waste heat to heat up our hot water so you have 1,000 L hot water standing here which is more than enough for the whole house and we kept the circulation lines and supply lines in the house short that we don't transport the water through the whole house and wasting a lot of energy in your ring M if you're running on municipality power you can save up to 80% if you're connected to the solar system the energy we're using is for free so the heat pumps are not using any energy we have to pay for so you can use it as a battery as well there's different settings if the Sun starts shining our controller will jump on a second level and it can produce higher temperature with the heat pumps so you're using it as a water battery with so much of the focus being on interior lighting Natasha strubel of ulux is here to cast the whole building as the hero well Natasha I'm getting excited now because it seems like there are so many options with regards to lighting what do you have for outdoors especially when we try to illuminate the outside of our building so we've got the stunning range over year which is part of our iglo range it carries a 5year warranty for starters obviously it's LED so it's efficient okay and what's very nice about this is it's quite versatile so for example if you wanted to illuminate your wall yeah you could literally turn it that way it would illuminate your wall and you can turn it around like that if you actually just want lighting for the exterior all right I'm getting excited I what else see absolutely so this one you could put into that space over there where the conduit is and got this beautiful light that's facing out so what's very nice is that it's not facing up so you don't get light pollution I love it and I think the accents are going to match some of our frames as well so this is pretty much made for our building I want to know with regards to the options in the Solar world are we able to still harness some of that free energy to create more of an effect with lighting we have got so much in the range of solar so let's just talk about if you want to illuminate your garden so we've got a lovely solar spot light as you can see your solar panel is here as long as it's in direct sun it will charge and automatically go on at night and you can highlight your tree or highlight certain aspects in your garden these are so cool abely beautiful sticks in the ground sticks in and then again you can turn it whichever way you want to all right but anything bigger that we might have in terms of making a bigger impression with lighting well you know we've got War lights as well and then we've got security security is always a very hot topic definitely so as you can see here is your so solar panel what's very nice is that it is a monocrystalline solar panel so you'll probably get 4 to 6 hours in the Sun and this would last you for about 2 days this one over here has actually got a motion sensor so it will automatically pick up movement when someone walks past at night the light will go on and alert you and then what's very nice is that this is going to be high up on your wall you can't get up there to change anything if you want something and we've got a remote as well that works with it so you've got an auto setting you can set to go off after 3 hours 5 hours or 8 hours Sky's a limit okay Natasha now you're just showing off but I think we are absolutely year for it I got to thank you so much for educating me and I think providing our entire building with exceptional lighting options and of course quality the snags are almost done and every one of our design Duos is proud and happy about how they've maximized on their Caesar Stone our journey with Caesar Stone began with our favorite Stone of all the smoke Stone we love that it had this texture to it it's got that little dappled physical texture with the vein running through it which was beautiful we had a piece of our smoke Stone from Cesar Stone left and I mean I thought it would be a fantastic idea to put it on the fire mantle I think it looks beautiful the reason why we went with the miror Bell season a stone is because of the finish and like the colors it sort of like resembles the oceans side like sand and rocks in the ocean um and it has like a lot of warm we made use of the marabo on our vanity in our on Street bathroom and it's just to continue the same slab throughout our apartment and for consistency we use the same scissor Stone to frame our entrances and our Windows as well as the inserts so that we don't use a lot of like different stones and different material in the same space cuz the space is small so we decides to like keep it consistent and clean we had an wonderful opportunity to work with the scissor Stone and this is where we started so we decided to choose the impa for vanity top which works very good for our Earth Tone and Earth theme yeah it just brings the space down and also you know picks up from the other colors and grounds the whole space and also like that black element so we kept everything Moody and this Stone has been a blast cuz it just complimented and finish off everything that we wanted to do you know cuz yeah details key and scissor Stone has been so helpful they cool tool like for us like in a major major R and our sweet you know tooko sh out Stone guys investment team fire us their Caesar Stone smoke Stone to maximum effect in their kitchen bathroom and here on the fireplace to complete the triangle of smoke Stone we have decided to carry it through into the lounge three is a crowd so three is a party thre is a party yes I think it's really beautiful here it's incredible and just the light I think adds this glow that just further emphasizes it and I mean you're so used to seeing Stone on flat horizontal surfaces we wanted to you know spice things up and flip it vertical and it it holds up so well it really does and it's got a like it's got a grounding factor for the lounge which is really playful so this is our sophisticated Moody moment smoke stone for Life still to come snags be gone with every room Ship Shape our teams use their free day and their skills to build a Arena tomorrow caite Tech do it all on our app just like [Music] that stand a chance to win a weekend away in the winning apartment with Buco dial Star 120 star 62800 Ash and follow the prompts to enter begin with buo [Music] yeah like I feel like we spent the the cap Tech budget very well we invested on items that don't exist in the market like we custom made some items we had connections and capit Tech and we matched it together right magic uh so designed this chair actually in lockdown 4 years ago yeah it was a time where we just wanted to celebrate our mom but it was just an idea that came and we just wrote The Wave and got it on paper you know 2 years ago I met a friend C uh he owns a manufacturing company called PN boards I met C last year at a coffee shop for and we were basically just having conversations around design what they wanted to build and some of the things in which they basically had in the pipeline myself as a manufacturer I found it as a great partnership for us to have that I can come in with my expertise in manufacturing and then they can come in with the expertise with design for the noo range with this particular chair we use Oak and it gives the chair a bit of character we also use a combination of posted fabric they use a lot of fabrics and earthy uh materials within the project so we actually decided to go with that we finally like got our heads together and we were like let's start with the range and this baby came out and it's been like friendship and partnership but also just building a community of designers cuz we feel like African products are really a thing you know it's very important um you know also like you know we're looking at exporting products and things like that I'm currently busy pulling the strings in the curtain tape so that we can create nice gathers and folds in the curtain so now we need to do one last fix with the height so I've pinned where we need to take it in and hopefully that's the last time that our Lounge curtains has to go back without Des dining Duos having done everything they can they're taking a day off before judging begins to join buo and capy Tech in building a Greener environment for the children who call the Rainbow of Hope House their home good morning everybody my name is sha my name is Lucy I'm and we just like to welcome you to Rainbow of Hope and want to thank you so much for coming out today and we really excited to get started y to create an instant Garden from the ground up buo delivers these genius robust Planters and it doesn't take long from here we're so excited to build some vegie Gardens with you today do you do you kind of use this space use this SP yeah so would you like to would you guys like to keep this as open as possible to not have them here so more along along the walls because they do they do Tik Tok yeah you see okay okay see this is the we need don't want to implicate with Tik Tok so they eat here and they do their Tik Tok dances they play soccer so this space along the wall Four Hands on death let's do a rainbow of Hope on three 1 2 today we're in Goodwood at Rainbow of Hope children's home we're here with the Fantastic Team from buer and capy Tech to do some amazing work in the garden for the children that are housed here it's absolutely important for buo to give back our purpose is building lives Building Homes and building communities and as you can see today we're definitely building in the community for me rainbow of Hope is a second shoted life I don't know where I would have been actually I do know where I would have been if I wasn't at Rainbow of hope I think I might have been Place back with my family or actually on the road there was no other chance for me rainbow of Hope established about 17 years ago we are now 17 years in existence it started with a vision of Allison wanting to start the children's home but Allison's always been within the community since she was 16 I am Allison's daughter I was adopted by Allison at the age of 2 weeks old and yeah she's the only mother I've known and I've shared my mother with hundreds of other kids and that's okay I enjoy it so I've been staying at R house since the age of three and right now I'm 17 I mean yo I've had so many different experiences here but like I can say so far it's only been the best I love the family I have at the moment they're not my biological family but I love them as if they're my biological family like our team of fellow capy Tech volunteers her Ace considers a Grassroots approach best for building a better South Africa I'm a cap uplifter as you can see so we're here at Rainbow H our team my team's here at the back helping out with gardening my hands are already dirty we're ready to roll up our sleeves get our hands dirty and help out with gardening C also partnered with my design rules we thought it's a great partnership there are a lot of entrepreneurs that have so many dreams and we hope that with our support they can take it further and invest in their dreams businesses lives and that will create sustainable growth the Highlight has been the amount of people that have come out because you know with Nos and so on a lot of times people say that they're willing to do something and they just don't show up so we've been having a problem lately with commitment so it's really cool that everyone actually stuck to their word and they came out here just to plant with us get to know us have fun with us laugh with us so that that's been amazing for me to see the the turnout it feels really good to give back it feels really good to see a smile on all the kids' faces there was such camaraderie between everyone and it's just been it's been a happy day yeah and honestly I feel like I got so much from them their Joy their you enjoyment of the day it just reminds you of what's important in life my hands clearly are The dirti Zo yours are clean these are these are director hands okay so you just point I'm pointing yeah there and we must just if my hands are dead you won't see them you w see where I'm pointing you know when the Buco and K people pulled up it was like yes more hands you know and it just made the the job like just quick I wish they were there for grouting as well it would have been great extra hands you know what bro if they came for grouting would have been so fun but I mean it was having them around and just know helping me and just theal I'm not familiar with that was cool working with other teams is quite exciting I think we need to work on the team Dynamic all over again it's been fun it's been a a blast I've had a good time it's been amazing taking a break from the house this is really therapeutic of fres it's gardening we're giving life to the Garden so it's been a nice rest day for me personally and I think for you as well just pointing it's been such a beautiful before and after I think we can leave today really just knowing we've done a good thing and left a space more beautiful than we found it love that well what I think about the new veggie garden is let's see I like it I enjoy it and hopefully we maintain it good keep our heads on it green fingers it's very bright and friendly and that's what we aspire to be a home that is welcoming and just full of love it's been really fun today getting my hands dad along with the Duos it's also been great seeing how the different teams get to work together versus having to be on different challenges it's been a fantastic day I'm I say it's not my first time so I'm really enjoying this it's nice getting my hands dirty and doing it with everyone else and this is just a start I think there's still some hard work left for us for the day fire earth water air it's still anyone's to win so tune in next week to see who will be crowned winners of my design rules with that grand prize of 300,000 Rand 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