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The light fantastic

WHO LIVES HERE? Antoinette Stockley and her daughter Emma (19), as well as their pooches Laya and Fudge and three cats, Artemis, Twitch and Yuki

WHERE Somerset West

SIZE 445m²

Even though she wasn’t the owner of a rather ordinary house situated on the slopes of the Helderberg mountains in Somerset West, Antoinette Stockley knew exactly what she would do with it if it was hers.

For seven years she had been a regular visitor to the house while a friend was renting it. Then, one day about a decade ago,

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