“I re-built the gazebo in the garden, installed hammock hooks and Malian hammocks, and thatched the roof. After some weeks of searching, I found a man who came with a lorry load of grass from the Gambia, leapt on the roof and sewed it all together. On Friday nights I get out my film projector and we watch movies projected on the wall. There’s no cinema in Dakar so we have to make our own fun.

via Your Home is Lovely: interiors on a budget: House of Rose Repose.