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THE GRILL AND the glory

1 LEVEL BEST

With an awkwardly placed tree, inconvenient slope and messy retaining wall, the brick-paved corner of this Parkmore, Jo’burg, property had nothing going for it. As the owners Michelle and Siebert Benade, runners-up in our #DontMoveImprove competition last year, love to entertain, they felt the time had come to turn it into an area that would be both practical and attractive.

“I was on maternity leave, so I had the time to sketch plans and do some research on Pinterest,” Michelle explains. Having decided that they

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