Decorate Yourself Happy!
Dopamine décor is our favourite new decorating trend. What is dopamine? Dopamine is a neurotransmitter, hard at work in our brains, and is involved in everything from movement, memory, pleasurable reward and motivation to behaviour and cognition, attention, sleep and arousal, mood, learning and even lactation. This is some powerful stuff! If you have enough...Read More
Safely Shop on Facebook Marketplace.
Don’t make marketplace mistakes Here’s how to safely shop on Facebook marketplace This little piggy went to market(place) We all know the internet can be a dangerous place and we need to be careful, but somehow the convenience and familiarity of Facebook marketplace has us letting our guard down. Let’s look at how to safely shop on facebook market place....Read More
Thoughtful Thrifting
Don’t waste your money on a bargain. Happier than ever to get something cheap With the cost-of-living skyrocketing, we have never been happier about a shopping trend than we are about thrifting. For a couple of years now, our local pawnshop and second-hand store have been the first place we visit whenever we need a household item or odd piece of furniture. During...Read More
Not Your Granny’s Lampshade.
Is stained glass making a comeback? In the 90’s and 00’ we had a couple of intense craft and DIY crazes. There was Scrapbooking, fabric painting, modge-podging and then there was stained glass. This trend ranged from housewifely levels of glass paint with silver or bronze puffy paint dividing lines that people would hang up as suncatchers, to traditional cut...Read More
The Carpenter and Sons Story
Love, wood and fire. The Carpenter and Sons Story We sat down with the Deon and Carina Malherbe, the heart and hands behind the bespoke carpentry we can’t get enough of. The Carpenter and Sons is a family-owned carpentry business built on a love for woodworking and a commitment to exceptional craftsmanship. In 1989, Deon Malherbe stepped away from a successful...Read More
Downscaling – How Do You Do It?
Free yourself from your too much stuff. Downscaling is not the same as de-cluttering. Decluttering is basically just a fancy name for cleaning up your space. Decluttering can go further, and get rid of stuff you don’t use, stuff you don’t like, and like Marie Kondo says, anything that “doesn’t spark joy”. Downscaling on the other hand is a more drastic step towards...Read More
Multifunctional Spaces
Make your home work for you. Have you ever dreamt of a having your own study at home or giving your kids a dedicated playroom? In the perfect world we would all have unlimited budget to re-build our homes to suit our own needs. Unfortunately, that is not the case for most of us. Don’t worry! There are ways to make the most of what you have and tweak your existing...Read More
Happy Homemakers Go With Tjhoko Paint
Local is lekker, and nothing is lekkkerder than a Tjhoko Paint project. I’m more aspirational than inspired. Storytime: I have a love/hate relationship with DIY home improvement projects. When I was younger, and had basically no funds, no access to YouTube tutorials and very little know-how, I messed up a lot. I refinished furniture just to have paint stain...Read More
Get Whimsical With Your Home Décor
The Whimsical Duchess doesn’t do boring! We sat down with the Whimsical Duchess herself, and spoke about all things beautiful, elegant, and yes, Whimsical. If you visited us at the Homemakers Fair earlier this year, you would have seen her beautiful designs for yourself, but if you missed out on first hand whimsicality, we are bringing you her energetic design...Read More