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WHO LIVES HERE?

Neilke Pretorius and Megan Budler with their two Boston Terriers, Benz and Fox

WHERE Roodeplaat Dam, Kameeldrift, Pretoria

SIZE house 50m2, studio 32m2

If this house had a label on it, it would say Handmade by Martin. Almost everything the eye can see has been built or crafted by retired mechanical engineer Martin Pretorius.

Martin and his wife Anniek have lived on their two-hectare property on the outskirts of Pretoria for almost 24 years. "A couple of years ago, our youngest daughter Neilke, a landscaper, was working in

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