What is the Play(AR) Zone?
This year the HOMEMAKERS team collaborated with the TMG Makerspace for the highly anticipated Play(AR) Zone. The Tshimologong Makerspace (TMG) Makerspace seeks to promote and enable access to innovation through collaborative making, training, upskilling and experimentation. Augmented Reality will have you immersed in the world of interactive technology when entering the main show arena. In...Read More
Designer Spaces: Lindiwe Ludonga
We searched Gauteng far and wide to find 8 designers and decorators who we felt stood up to the Designer Spaces challenge. These designers are encouraged to create a space at the Johannesburg HOMEMAKERS Expo that is inspired by Africa. We chat to Lindiwe Ludonga. Africa is in the spotlight for everything from fashion and film to visual arts and design. Creating a space inspired by African...Read More
The Team Behind The Young Designers Challenge
When people collaborate, amazing things happen. Over the last couple of years, Vermont Sales and the University of Johannesburg have collaborated with HOMEMAKERS for the inventive Young Designers Challenge. This year the ideas generated behind the theme was to design products that change and improve people’s lifestyles. Top products will be on display at the Expo where the winning design will...Read More
Designer Spaces:Erika Prinsloo
Erika Prinsloo is our sixth Designer Spaces participant who will take part in this creative HOMEMAKERS challenge. The Designer Spaces Challenge is one of our favourite Expo features and a wonderful incentive for interior designers and decorators to share their creations at the 2020 InHabit Johannesburg HOMEMAKERS Expo. The theme for the 2020 Expo is appropriately themed; InHabit. We live in a...Read More
Designer Spaces: Living Room Style
If you have been following our Designer Spaces Challenge designers, you surely know how excited we are to share the designer’s with our readers. Our latest designers in the challenge is Marina Sidonia Brown and Taryn Jacobson. This interior design and landscaping team, along with their partner Wayne Brodie are known for their urban – boho renovation of the downtown Joburg rooftop...Read More
Designer Spaces: Tasneem Sayanvala
The Designer Spaces Challenge is teeming with talent. Every year this Expo show feature ups the ante in terms of design and décor skills. With a wide variety of participants from very different backgrounds and cultures, they collectively share one thing. Africa is home. In the challenge, a participant is to create a space that they feel lives up to the 2020 InHabit theme. We recently asked...Read More
Designer Spaces: Cecilia Kapasula
With the Johannesburg expo only weeks away we are glad to announce our third Designer Spaces Challenge designer. For the House of Sweet Savannah, Africa is at the centre of all design projects. Owner Cecilia Kapasula, says her design house is about adding a piece of Africa into your life. Through an array of vibrant, bold and bright decorative products, House of Sweet Savannah specialises in...Read More
InHabit 2020 with Concrete Specialists WODC
The 2020 Inhabit Johannesburg Expo is only weeks away. With so many new and exciting things on offer at the 2020 expo, we are pleased to announce another partnership with our good friends, World of Decorative Concrete (WODC). Visitors can expect another series of demos from WODC at the Inhabit Workshop, showcasing the many creative uses of concrete in functional design. The InHabit Workshops...Read More
Designer Spaces: Amanda Mlombo
We are pleased to announce our second Designer Spaces designer. With Expo time nearing, there are so many things to get excited about and our Expo designer features is one of them! Amanda Mlombo is the owner, interior decorator and designer of Blush Affluent. She has always possessed a keen sense for interior design and focuses her design aesthetic on conceptualising authentic interior...Read More