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When Charlene and Ruan set about renovating and expanding their tin-roofed bungalow in Pretoria, South Africa, they wanted to find a balance between modernising it and preserving its heritage.

Although now firmly ensconced in suburbia, when Charlene and Ruan consulted architect Nadine Engelbrecht, they discovered that when it was originally built in 1949, their house

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