With the help of her daughter Reneé Rossouw who is an artist, designer and architect, Laureen created a double-volume living area by removing a small bedroom on the first floor above it. Steel-framed windows custom made by Jambmax. Photo: Greg Cox/Bureaux
WHO LIVES HERE? Laureen and Koos Rossouw
WHERE Oranjezicht, Cape Town
SIZE 280m2
Cape Town-based magazine editor and stylist Laureen Rossouw first saw this house five years ago.
She and her husband Koos were about to move out of their City Bowl apartment when Laureen spotted a picture of “a dilapidated house with classic Bauhaus lines” in the newspaper.
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