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• watch: mastering the art of the victorian dream cottage

  23-04-2018 18:49
  The dream of owning a charming Victorian property on Cape Town’s Atlantic Seaboard is one of the reasons why owners Niel Barnard and Lize Viljoen fell for this fixer-upper – and why they put in an offer on a whim. ‘We could see the potential in it and were excited when we found out that the original staircase was intact, but had been covered with a new one to accommodate the needs of the previous homeowner, who was elderly,’ says Lize.A furniture buyer for a homestore bra
  
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• where to eat in the midlands: la lampara

  23-04-2018 15:15
  La Lampara isn’t exactly the best-known restaurant in the country: in fact, it’s more like one of those best-kept secrets that you always hope will be revealed to you by a local resident when you’re visiting a new place. And among a large number of those in-the-know people in KwaZulu-Natal, La Lampara is – deservedly it turns out – a restaurant with a big reputation.a famous midlands eatery
  When you finally make it to a restaurant you’ve heard rave reviews of
  
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• the great escape: a video tour of a luxury llandudno holiday home

  23-04-2018 15:05
  If Johannesburg is this Cameroonian-born business consultant and homeowner’s yin, then Cape Town is his yang. The former is the nucleus of his frenetic work life; the latter, his cocoon, of sorts – a source of calm and release. It was critical, then, that the holiday home he bought four years ago in the cove of Llandudno in the Mother City be the ultimate embodiment of slow living.
  Perched high up on the mountainside, edged by boulders and fynbos, the multilevel residence that stand
  
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• the great escape: a video tour of a luxury llandadno holiday home

  23-04-2018 15:05
  If Johannesburg is this Cameroonian-born business consultant and homeowner’s yin, then Cape Town is his yang. The former is the nucleus of his frenetic work life; the latter, his cocoon, of sorts – a source of calm and release. It was critical, then, that the holiday home he bought four years ago in the cove of Llandudno in the Mother City be the ultimate embodiment of slow living.
  Perched high up on the mountainside, edged by boulders and fynbos, the multilevel residence that stand
  
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• Q&A with Shirley Mast of Woodbender

  23-04-2018 11:28
  Clean-lined and refined, Woodbender’s new Cala chair if perfect for contemporary open spaces.
  Top local furniture manufacturing company Woodbender is marking its 30th anniversary with the launch of the sleek new Cala chair – all the more reason to celebrate a new milestone. We chatted to co-owner and co-director Shirley Mast about Woodbender’s past, present and future.
  as a creative business owner, you have access to the latest international design trends. what are the top tren
  
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