We're up-cycling Johannesburg's city center, with luxury apartment renovations. Come and experience something amazing and truly unique, for a few days.
Hi, I'm Ade. Born and raised in the UK, I moved to South Africa in 2005 and fell in love with the place!
Renovating spaces is my hobby and your booking, via vrbo, helps pay for me to continue with this hobby. I've had such a positive response from the 5,000+ guests that have stayed in these apartments, over the past 5 years, that I just kept going and am just about to start my fifth project. All of my renovations are made available under the banner African Penthouses.
For my day job I work for global NGO that helps financial institutions to improve access to formal financial service for low income women. It means I travel. A lot! At least it did before Covid-19 hit :-(
So one way to get to know me would be to list 5 things I like.
Well, in no particular order (and purposely not mentioning my amazing Fiancée)....
Building and home renovation. Have loved creating unique spaces and learning from each project. The fact that these types of building's would be out of my reach, in any major city in Europe or America, makes it that bit more enjoyable.
My job. After 20 years in corporate, it feels good to building something special.
I have a real passion for music. More playing than making, though I am in the process of learning to play the piano, and was a fairly reasonable DJ in my younger days (does that count as making?). I'm slowly building up my Sonos system (Lego for adults), which is great for filling your home with sounds controlled from the iPad!
I'm a Spurs fan. (Tottenham, not San Antonio). Yes there are one or two fans outside of Tottenham.
London. The one advantage of having to travel so much for my work, was that I actually got back to London quite often :-)