When I saw this colourful kitchen transformation by Johannesburg based Arrange Studio i felt like I had to share it, if only because it might make someone as happy as…
one of the stranger things to emerge in the past couple of years is the popularity of the 80s decor aesthetic. i don’t mean typical neon miami vibes (though that…
you may remember that a few years ago Monya of Stokperd and I did a series called Visits. we unfortunately didn’t get very far with them because we ended up…
my friend Lar and her husband Craig moved from Cape Town to the north coast of KZN a few years back (you may remember that i posted about her beautiful…
Carmen D’Apollonio is a multi-talented Swiss potter who moved to LA in 2014 to pursue her work in ceramics. she also co-founded Swiss fashion brand Ikou Tschuss. her sculptural lights are…
i began following Chloe O’Doherty sometime last year, in the midst of those early all-consuming baby days – when i found myself stalking as many mothers as I could on Instagram. it…
i saw this awesome loft makeover on Food52 and i couldn’t help but share, it’s so well designed and so much thought has gone into every detail. i highly recommend reading the…
you guys, i LOVE a good before and after. you might say i am OBSESSED with them. you can ask my husband how many hours i have spent watching shows…
i’m sure you’ve been there, having just visited your hundredth museum on holiday somewhere in Europe, the hundreds of years old frescoes all blurring into one as you walk glassy…
we live in an old house, which we think may have been built sometime in the 1930s. even though we’d like to renovate some day there are still many vintage…
soooooo, we have this bathroom, right? and it’s not great. the floors have these huge terracota type tiles. the walls are beige. the bathroom vanity isn’t even a vanity – it’s just a piece of formica (!!!) with a fake granite texture (!!!!) and a sink on top. the bath is TOO SMALL. when i was pregnant i could barely fit in it. it’s just… a mess. a total mess. i won’t show you a photo, cause you don’t need to see it. so our next big home project (after just having our leaky roof entirely redone this past winter) is to renovate the bathroom.
we won’t be doing a nursery initially, as the kiddo is just going to sleep in our room for the first few months. we would only just have moved into our…
most of my “time-wasting” surfing activities (i.e. browsing Pinterest while in bed, on the couch, in the bath, on the bus…) revolves around our new house. searching for inspiration for kitchens, bathrooms,…
you may have spotted this bananas patterned marble all over your pinterests, in the form of bathrooms and shops and furniture and design objects, and perhaps wondered what the story behind it is -…