As Libya tumbles, Europe’s economy crumbles and the woes of Wall Street and the World Bank are front page news, there is a much quieter revolution happening on my homefront. Our insurgent arrived one morning, neatly flatpacked, flatpacked with utter [...]
Continue readingI was asked to do a talk at the Cape Homemakers Fair last week. Thought I’d share my thoughts and presentation with you today… Images from Jill Sander, Dior, Yves St Laurent, Plascon, Elle Decoration SA, and other sources. With [...]
Continue readingDécor has been appropriately “recessionista” the last few years in contrite greys and charcoals. But now the zeitgeist has found some gusto, and this upbeat attitude is reflected in today’s fashionable brights, which are all wanting to combine with a [...]
Continue readingPink and I never got on. We’d been sworn enemies ever since I’d beheaded my first Barbie and headed instead for the comfort of the lowest clime-able branch. You see, I was a T M. A Tom Boy. A Turquiose and [...]
Continue readingThe Freeworld Design Centre is calling on creatives, artists, and designers to donate their time and turn their talents to transforming bright yellow soccer balls into art pieces. We’ll be auctioning these off on August 4 at a big Women’s [...]
Continue readingI love this aqua bedroom, taken from the 2011 Gervasoni catalogue, with its happy, snappy blooo! If you’d like to paint a room this colour, then match it to Plascon Angela Bay B3-A1-2 and you too can dream marine…
Continue readingIt’s good to know that Earthcote’s brand planner Jenny Mason puts her money where her mouth is. And her Granite Paint where her bathroom is! Jenny’s just redone her sanitary sanctuary in this versatile new roll-on product. It looks like paint-on ‘terrazzo’, is easy to [...]
Continue readingIt’s Grand Designs Live from 20-22 May and Freeworld is sponsoring the IID House at the show – where top local designers each decorate a room for a chosen celebrity in a life-size home specially built for the show. So if you’re in [...]
Continue readingDid you know wenge was an endangered wood? Luckily, we’ve been asked to colour match it, so that you can paint it instead of chopping down another tree to make African Rosewood or Faux Ebony, as wenge is also called. This [...]
Continue readingToday we were given the most interesting challenge: we were asked to hunt down a shade from the year 1634! Well, as it turns out, we were in fact digging for gold, and X marks the spot on Gamboge, which [...]
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