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Danilo Acquisto On The Fifth Season Of Win A Home

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The fifth season of the interior design reality show Win a Home continues to be as popular as ever. It all comes to a conclusion during the exciting Grand Finale that will be broadcast on Thursday 13 December at 19h30 on SABC3.

ALSO READ: WIN A HOME Design Duos Show Off Incredible Interiors As Finale Draws Near

Over the past 11 weeks,  the Win a Home design duos, Rekopile Belebesi and Koketso Marole (team R&K), Kehumile Mate and Nicholas Smit (team Contrast Control) and Melissa Oosthuizen and Sinead Turner (team Perma Peeps), have transformed three white-box penthouse apartments at Balwin Properties’ Paardevlei Lifestyle Estate in Somerset West into spectacular designer homes fitted with the latest connected appliances from Samsung, in the show’s fifth season, proudly brought to you by Capitec Bank and Private Property.

This season saw Danilo Acquisto return to his position as host of the show where he, alongside co-host Thabiso Makhubela, joined the design duos as they embarked on a transformation of a lifetime. 

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Why do you think a show like ‘Win A Home’ is so entertaining to watch?

I think it’s the sheer awe of the design inspiration and the personalities of the design duos. Some watch solely to inspire their own design ideas and some for the drama of the duos and the journey they go through.

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WIN A HOME Design Duos Show Off Incredible Interiors As Finale Draws Near

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Over the past 10 weeks, the Win a Home design duos have transformed three white-box penthouse apartments at Balwin Properties’ Paardevlei Lifestyle Estate in Somerset West into spectacular designer homes, fitted with the latest connected appliances from Samsung, in the show’s fifth season, proudly brought to you by Capitec Bank and Private Property.

ALSO READ: WIN A HOME Launches On SABC 3 This Month

Throughout the competition, the three competing duos, comprising of Rekopile Belebesi and Koketso Marole (team R&K), Kehumile Mate and Nicholas Smit (team Contrast Control) and Melissa Oosthuizen and Sinead Turner (team Perma Peeps), have used their skills and creativity to decorate their respective apartment’s various rooms in order to wow judges Bryan Courtney of Private Property, Slade Brookes of Balwin Properties, Buhle Mathole of Kabu Design Architects, and various guest judge interior design luminaries.

The design duos first task was to tackle the apartment’s guest bedroom and spare room. The one prerequisite was that the spare room could not be a bedroom. For their spare room, team R&K decided to create a ‘Glam Room’ with a wardrobe and dressing table where they commissioned Hout Bay-based fine artists Donna Solovei to do a painting of red-bottom high heels and framed it in Caesarstone. For their guest bedroom, team Contrast Control collaborated with Oliver Sherwell of Sherwell Interiors to create a wrap-around headboard in olive green fabric, and designed a study space for their other room. Perma Peeps created a Murphy Bed for the spare room and a macramé-woven headboard for their guest bedroom. A mistake made by creating a ceiling feature that stopped the cupboards from opening caused Contrast Control to become joint winners with R&K for this first challenge. This task was mentored and guest judged by Rudolph Jordaan (design winner of Win a Home season 3).

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WIN A HOME Launches On SABC 3 This Month

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Win a Home, South Africa’s premier interior design reality TV competition is back for its fifth season, proudly brought to you by Capitec and Private Property. 

ALSO READ: Entries Open As WIN A HOME Returns For A Fifth Season

The 13-part series follows the journey of three competing design contestant pairs as they convert three identical white-box penthouse apartments into designer homes. 

Win a Home 2018 will be a stand-alone show broadcasting live every Thursday evening at 19:30 on SABC 3, from the 20th of September. At the end of the series one lucky viewer will walk away with a brand-new designer decorated apartment at Balwin Properties’ Paardevlei Lifestyle Estate in Somerset West valued at more than R3 million. This is the biggest prize on South African television. 

Over 13 weeks, three opposing Design Duos will compete as they transform three white-box penthouse apartments into dream homes in a bid to claim the title as South Africa’s best emerging interior designers. 

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Entries Open As WIN A HOME Returns For A Fifth Season

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WIN A HOME, South Africa’s favourite interior design reality TV show, is back with a brand new 5th season! The show’s producers are currently looking for three pairs of aspiring interior designers to participate as contestants in this year’s design challenge.

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Win a Home 2018 will be a stand-alone show on SABC3 Prime Time, airing Thursday nights at 19h30, starting on the 20th of September.

This season will be based in the Western Cape, with three new Design Duo contestants decorating three identical penthouse apartments at the Paardevlei Lifestyle Estate in Somerset West to compete for a grand prize of R100 000. Win a Home has partnered with Balwin Properties as well as a number of exciting sponsors to allow the Design Duos to turn their white-box apartments into bespoke designer homes.

Three of South Africa’s top home décor magazine editors will once again give inspiration and direction to each duo. Each of the three participating design pairs will be assigned a magazine title, who will guide them through the design process and will each do a feature spread on their mentee’s completed apartment.

This is an opportunity for passionate and qualified interior designers, with less than five years of professional experience, to make their mark in the interior design industry. Win a Home spring-boarded the careers of the previous designer winners Donald Nxumalo (2014), Jacoline Sema (2015), Rudolph Jordan (2016) and Brad Muttitt and Abiah Mahlase (2017) who have since made a big impact on South African design scene.

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