Francis Karanja has made a career out of turning old dilapidated commercial and residential buildings across the country into eye-turners. Starting as a mason in 2015, he has fashioned himself as a talented interior and exterior decorator specialising in refurbishing walls and ceilings.
It was at a construction site first where he worked as a right-hand man when he realised a gap in the interior and exterior finishing business in the real estate sector. Most of the finishings, he says, seemed impersonal and their owners were eager to give them a facelift.