Extreme home makeover ...

The GBF Peter made the big grown-up move and bought a house in Cape Town last year .... a house with a very typical south african story

Great aunt shirley had lived in the house for decades and decades .... until earlier last year - she was murdered on her own porch by the young black kid who had washed her car forever .... Peter only found out about the story when one of the drunks that seem to inhabit every street corner in the city (to be fair the "bergies" are always rather sweet and almost a relief compared with the other types nastiness that infest our streets) told him about the whole affair ....

But thankfully for peter - other gays have started move in to the area (" here comes the neighbourhood") ... and its now a teeming mass of cafes and boutique furniture shops and the all poor bergies are very bewildered ....

Anyhow 6 months after deciding to gut the place and armed with a gay architect, a lesbian builder and a gay project manager (apparently quite the hot team in town) .... peter finally overcame poor aunt shirley's house neglect and design ignorance ... and unveiled the most gorgeous and perfect little house in Cape Town with a very fabulous house warming party ....



It was all cocktail dresses and champagne ....one of those chattering-clattering beautiful parties .... and basically peter's very lovely friends made the place look so good (see above) that amazingspaces.com want to use the property for the movies and model shoots ... obviously we would all have be written into the contract as fixed adornment furniture .... but i think poor aunt shirley would have been very proud ....

PS - party pics and the house in full glory - all photo credits to the very wonderful Lisa Mastronardi