“Our plan when we bought this house was to renovate it gradually,” says Eleni Ayele of the house she shares with her husband Johan Boonzaier.
But then in 2020 when the Covid-19 pandemic struck, the whole world changed and their budget with it, so Eleni started looking for ways to update areas of the house without breaking the bank.
Johan, a systems engineer, is a self-admitted DIY addict but Eleni, who hails from Ethiopia, had never even painted a wall before. However, having recently completed her LLM in human rights law, she believes in research.
“That’s how I came across Tjhoko Paint, which was an eye-opener for me.” Eleni was so intrigued that she watched all their videos, sometimes more than once, and this gave her the courage and know-how…
