Opposites attract — Leather with Upholstery

Aug 292012
 

Many peo­ple think of leather with uphol­stery as a no-no when it comes to fur­nish­ings.  Con­sid­ered oppo­sites, few peo­ple would ordi­nar­ily use the com­bi­na­tion in a liv­ing room. How­ever, these liv­ing spaces effort­lessly mix and match uphol­stery with leather, putting this com­bi­na­tion into a whole new light…

Leather and Upholstery

the clean lines of the leather pieces adds the chic to these rooms

Leather and Upholstery

leather pro­vides tex­ture — a great way to cre­ate a well-rounded visual space

the best of many worlds — leather, tuft­ing & upholstery

Adding char­ac­ter & visual inter­est to a calm, ele­gant space.

 

 

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Industrial Farmhouse with a touch of Romanticism

Aug 232012
 

The Indus­trial Farm­house of Esme and Kobus van Heer­den is one with a real touch of roman­ti­cism and it has cap­tured my imag­i­na­tion since I first came across it on The Pretty Blog.  The cou­ple had been liv­ing on the prop­erty for 17 years before they decided on a com­plete redo in 2010.  The leak­ing roof they’d finally had enough of, plus the major changes they wanted lead to the brave deci­sion to demol­ish the orig­i­nal house.

Over the years they had col­lected a lot of old pantry cup­boards & other fur­ni­ture and planned the house around the pieces they had.  Esmé says they tried to recy­cle wher­ever they could. “Our son, Lau­rie trans­formed old, solid Ore­gon pine kitchen tops into a work­ing area for the office, roof beams were machined down and changed into shelves for the pantry and the linen room.”

The fam­ily moved into their new home just 7 months ago. “What a joy to move back to a brand new house, but still com­ing home to the big old trees we knew so well and the piece of land where the foot­prints of our chil­dren were embed­ded”, says Esmé.

They man­aged to mix old and new per­fectly.  It is edgy & fresh, but still man­ages to reflect the per­son­al­ity of its own­ers — just gorgeous.

Industrial Farmhouse

 

The lovely images was taken by Yolandé Marx.

 

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Blurring Indoor/Outdoor boundaries

Aug 212012
 

This very mod­ern res­i­dence in Israel man­ages to blur indoor/outdoor bound­aries in a way that is both calm­ing and quite spectacular.

The home, designed by Levy:Chamizer Archi­tects, wraps around its out­door areas offer­ing plenty of leisure oppor­tu­ni­ties.  The impres­sive swim­ming pool is the focal point and each room opens up towards it with the help of large windows.  The open plan living/dining is the most spec­tac­u­lar zone of the house, with views towards not only the pool, but also to the lovely green area on the oppo­site side of the house.

I love the con­trast between black & white through­out the house and the warmth added by the wooden floors.  It has a feel­ing of peace­ful­ness with comfy beds  and front row seats to the pool.

Indoor/Outdoor boundaries

 

Source: freshome.com

 

 

Decorex Joburg | Part 2

Aug 122012
 

For those of you who missed Part 1 of our Decorex adven­ture, Decorex is the largest décor & design show in South­ern Africa, fea­tur­ing the lat­est on the local and inter­na­tional front.  Today we have some more of the fab­u­lous items & designs exhib­ited at this year’s Decorex Joburg in the 2nd part of our post.

Tex­tiles & Linen

 Decorex

Her­tex Fab­rics’ stand with some of their new ranges on dis­play.  Her­tex is launch­ing no fewer than 45 new ranges this year.

Decorex

100% Linen with a sil­ver Foil print from the Van­ity Range by Her­tex Fab­rics.  I absolutely fell in love with the look and feel!

Beau­ti­ful bed linen and unique scat­ter cush­ions by Anne Colle.

Clas­sic Stripes, Burlap and Typog­ra­phy at Clas­sic Bond

Fur­ni­ture

TradeS­e­cret buys “can­celled orders” and offers it to the pub­lic at a dis­counted rate.  On dis­play was hand­crafted French oak cab­i­nets & dressers, 100% nat­ural linen sofas and tex­tiles and a huge “got to have” oak indus­trial style side­board.  No longer a trade secret!

The “Con­tem­po­rary Coun­try” dis­play by Entrepo.  The name itself is derived from early 18th cen­tury French, mean­ing ‘to store’, ‘among’, or ‘to place’.  The place to find unique decor items, their felt run­ner is hand­made from 100% wool.  The size of the indi­vid­ual fibres are roughly as thick as a fin­ger!  It has to be seen as the image sim­ply doesn’t do it justice.

Sus­tain­able Design

RAW offers designs in sus­tain­ably sourced, engi­neered mate­ri­als.   Ikonik™ is their take on the tra­di­tional steel locker, pro­duced exclu­sively from Finnish Birch Ply­wood (even the hinges).  It has become a very pop­u­lar must-have object.

Bam­boo fibre home prod­ucts offer a fresh and styl­ish solu­tion for peo­ple wo want to live a green lifestyle.  Made mainly out of bam­boo pow­der, it is sold by Bam­boo Fibre Table­ware.

Walls & All

Fresh ideas to cre­ate a per­son­alised, unique inte­rior.  These gor­geous wall pan­els are avail­able from What Works Design.

Exquis­ite is the only way to describe these tiles from Shell Shock Design.  As well as fresh­wa­ter and wild sea Mother of Pearl, they incor­po­rate all kinds of nature into our prod­ucts: plants, shells, peb­bles, semi-precious stones, even beans.  The mother of pearl is cut into chip sizes which are secured to Mesh, Acrylic, Alu­minium Hon­ey­comb Board or Mag­ne­sium Board.  Options include Capiz Shell Dec­o­ra­tive Pan­els, Shell Lam­i­nates, stun­ning Mosaic Tile Designs and Wallpaper/Border Strips.

The Luxe Factor

Vic­to­rian is not my usual style, but this bath­room by Vic­to­rian Side Bath­rooms are the ulti­mate in luxe.  Vic­to­rian Side Bath­rooms are renowned for bath­rooms of time­less ele­gance.  The high­est atten­tion to detail with only the best fit­tings, much thought has been given to the lay­out and the ulti­mate sen­sory experience.

I could spend extended time in a bath­room like this…

 

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SGNW House, Zimbali

Jul 262012
 

Embed­ded in the lush veg­e­ta­tion of Zim­bali, lies SGNW House.  Designed by Metro­pole Archi­tects, it is noth­ing short of spectacular.  This mod­ern home offers details that inspire and amaze.

Koi ponds, water fea­tures and a rim flow pool appear to merge into one, and flow through the house into the for­est.  The main bed­room suite can­tilevers six meters over the pool below, pro­vid­ing pro­tec­tion from the weather on the patio and adding that “wow” fac­tor.  Nat­ural tim­ber, off shut­ter con­crete, water and nat­ural stone cladding off­set the clean archi­tec­tural lines.  In the inte­rior a dar­ing mix of col­ors and dec­o­rat­ing ele­ments make each room more sur­pris­ing than the next.

Every­thing “Zim­bali” is done on a grand scale and the entrance to the house is no execption - “WoW”!

Zimbali

Zimbali

Zimbali

 

Source: freshome.com

 

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