Commissioning a home design in a newly built neighborhood that is almost fully developed, with an almost identical design styles and color schemes resting on the same part of the color spectrum helped a client who  didn’t know much about designing and building a home to know one thing for sure...that they want their  home to be different.  

All in all, the design briefing was that it had to be a difference maker...it had to be unique. Thing is, almost all properties were of hip roof design, a few gabled, with a color choice of either from a fifty shades of grey or  beige color scheme, resulting in a neighborhood that looks dull and boring. Less than ten in a hundred were  truly a work of art, and we were determined to be one of them.  

We decided on a design that completely paralleled most of the design choices, but not to shun on them but rather to create balance, to facilitate a variety in home designs, for its presence to uplift the neighborhood  so that neighboring properties will also help uplift its presence. Its karma, in African spirituality we define it  as a spirit of balance...not vengeance. 

We chose a mono-pitch roof design that offered a design look of a flat roof at the front to the sides for modernity; the site has a great view of mountain homes, so we dedicated a whole roof terrace on top of the garage to truly enjoy the views; functionally designed as a practical family home, with none of the rooms interfering with one another but rather help facilitating the functionality of each other; and we chose from a color that is an emotionally intense color that demands attention like no other color...Red color shades. 

This resulted in a beautiful home that became one of the landmarks in its neighborhood, a lighthouse that lifted spirits in a vast sea of ordinary homes. 

A home that is a testament that: “Unique Has No Rival”