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A green dream
When Johan Else spent a few weeks with his daughter Francéne Bekker in Durbanville during lockdown in 2020, this retired architect decided to design and build a beautiful display rack for her beloved succulents. With limited access to shops for new building supplies, Johan had to make do with what was available at home.
And it couldn’t be just any display shelf: with the living area overlooking it, the design had to look good too; it also had to stand away from the wall for when the house needs to be repainted.
Johan rose to the challenge, first pre-treating all the steel bars with an anti-corrosive layer and the wood with two coats of acrylic paint to make them hard-wearing.
“Without my computer and Autocad software, I had to do all the planning manually – but still to scale – on photocopy paper,” says Johan with a smile.