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. “I thought it might be wishful thinking,” she says. Nonetheless, she hot-footed it to Oranjezicht to take a look for herself.
As soon as Laureen set eyes on the characterful mid-20th century building, which did indeed have Bauhaus ‘bones', she was smitten. “I immediately called Koos to tell him I had found my dream home. Although
