Space and style accommodation
Dear Paul Thanks for the sketch and photos of your recently-acquired farm and house. From our phone conversation, I gather you want to extend the...
A retirement home
Dear Jonno I enjoy your articles in Farmer’s Weekly, and am quite amazed at the variety of ideas and suggestions you always come up with. My...
An extended family home
Dear Jonno I have a 630m² plot on which I want to build an extended family home (single-storey) to accommodate our growing family. The house should...
Snug cottage with a view
Jonno designs a one-bedroom cottage with a stilted wooden structure and a thatched roof for Annalie
More house space on a budget
I received emails from Vincent in KwaZulu-Natal and Thambo in the Transkei. Both have the same problem as most of us in South Africa: limited finances.
Ideas for a new home
I received an email from Farmer’s Weekly readers, Mel and Greig, requesting me to travel to Mooi River, 30km from where I stay, to discuss their new home. After exchanging...
House on a hilltop
I recently had a call from Farmer’s Weekly readers, Jack and Jill, the owners of a wildlife estate in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands.
Cute timber cottage
Organic farm owner, John and Sue from Mossel Bay want to build a small timber frame home for themselves and are looking for professional architectural advice on the design of...
A simple rondavel
Luci and David want to build a a new rondavel with cement blocks under thatch. Find out what Jonno comes up with.
‘Peter Pan’ house – a variation on a theme
Yolande fell in love with a 'Peter Pan' styled house she had seen in an issue of Farmer's Weekly. She asks Jonno if he can design a house similar to...
A family home in East London
Jonno designs a two-storey house with solar panels on the roof for Sipho whom stays in a township outside East London.
Refurbishing a traditional house
I received a call from Mark, who owns a game farm outside Mokopane in the North West. Six years ago, I designed his hunter’s lodge and tourist complexes.
A holiday home in Zimbabwe
Dear Jonno We have just returned from our annual family holiday in Zimbabwe and because the family has grown, we need to have a homestead...
Designing a five-star lodge
Jonno designs a bush lodge catering for 16 five-star sleeper units for Socrates all the way in Angola.
A dream home on the West Coast
Dear Jonno My husband and I have recently acquired a plot in a rural area of the Western Cape west coast. The area, however, has...
A low-maintenance, affordable beach house
Dear Jonno Could you please help us with ideas on an ideal beach house that is affordable and easy to maintain? Our plot is 600m2 and...
Pongola home – heaven on earth
I was invited to Pongola to help choose a site and design a new home for Ria and Gippie. They had recently been paid out for their land claim farm...
A dream farmhouse in Zambia
A love for farming has brought Cassandra and her family to Zambia. Now she wants to build her dream home. Read on to find out what Jonno has come up...
