An African starter home

Hi Juston

Thanks for the request to assist with your envisaged development. I require a more detailed explanation of your needs, but decided to try and visualise and improvise on your basic description. The sketch layout shows a three-bedroom house in keeping with traditional African home building. It consists of the initial accommodation required for a young family starting off, but with space for further additions as the family grows – bedrooms two and three with connecting passage on the sketch.

The separate toilet between the two bedrooms can be converted into a passage that can be extended to serve another pair of bedrooms further back. This type of building is called a “starter-home”. I’ve included the fishpond partially inside the home, with a glass wall barrier separating the inside from the outside. As for the chicken run and piggery, I thought that they should be a good distance away from the house, as they’re a bit smelly! Your pay toilets, farm stall, cocktail bar and servants’ quarters should also be away from your private family home. Let me have more specifics on the public facilities and their placement, and I’ll respond further.

All the best, Jonno