Meticulous planning went into positioning this home set in a hectare of indigenous forest to ensure that the forest remained intact.
"We used a land surveyor to pinpoint every tree, which we then marked. We had to build meticulously around trees and did the build by hand," says the home owner.
The floor-to-ceiling windows, paired with wooden floors and ceilings and glass walkways "create the feeling that we live in a modern treehouse floating in the forest".
Every detail of the build, with its modern, minimalist look, reflects the owner's love for nature. "The exterior blends and disappears into the forest of trees and birds. You would not believe this is in Pretoria East," he says.
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