Decor Smart Idea: Missing puzzle peace Decor June 11, 2014 Smart Idea: Missing puzzle peace Don’t discard a puzzle with missing pieces. Rather use it as a colourful trim to cheer-up dull picture frames, or even to give scatter cushions a funky edge. Full Article
Lifestyle A thorn is a thorn is a thorn Lifestyle February 23, 2012 A thorn is a thorn is a thorn The prick of a thorn is a reminder of our fragility, but it’s no accident that plants with thorns are among the most beautiful of all, because each one has something precious to lose or hide. Full Article
Lifestyle Hola, Havana Lifestyle February 15, 2011 Hola, Havana The “Paris of the Caribbean” is a city bathed in fortitude and photogenic decay. But as America turns a newly benign gaze on one of communism’s last outposts, everything looks set to change. Full Article
Architecture The Stone Age Architecture February 15, 2011 The Stone Age A house can’t get much greener than when it is built with stones gathered from the very site on which it is constructed. Introducing Stone House. Full Article
Design Mud Studio Design February 15, 2011 Mud Studio In the not-so-sleepy hollow of the Platberg, Eastern Free State, the Mud Studio kilns at Ferndale Farm are baking load after load of handmade ceramics destined for distant shores. Full Article
Lifestyle A thorn is a thorn is a thorn Lifestyle February 15, 2011 A thorn is a thorn is a thorn The prick of a thorn is a reminder of our frailty, but it’s no accident that plants with thorns are amomg the most beautiful of all, because each one has something precious to lose or hide. Full Article
Decor Books also furnish a room Decor February 11, 2011 Books also furnish a room Houses reflect their owners. Writer and journalist, Lin Sampson, first fell in love with her house in Cape Town nearly 30 years ago and has barely changed a thing about it. Her key decor element? Books! Full Article
Architecture Modern modernism Architecture February 11, 2011 Modern modernism A 1930s home in Johannesburg has been renovated with painstaking reference to its original Bauhaus form. Full Article
