When well-known actress and singer Antoinette Pienaar arrived on Theefontein farm in 2001, gravely ill with cerebral malaria, Oom Johannes had been waiting for her for decades – ever since his vision about 40 years before.
A clever revamp of this 1960s house has resulted in a light and spacious abode that flows effortlessly from the interior to the garden – without compromising its footprint or the many indigenous trees.