From rooftop gardens that create oxygen to rammed earth walls and LED lights, this is how the Lowveld does sustainable living. Named after its eco-friendly features and style, the home aptly called Green Verandah, sticks out like a healthy thumb alongside its neighbours in Mbombela’s ‘The Rest Nature Estate’. Rammed earth walls, concrete, wood, glass […]
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When I was a wee lass I did ballet… like many other wee lasses. And if you were required to pirouette, arabesque or even plié, the place to go for all things dance was “The Cats Whiskers”. You name it… you could get it here, even custom made masks and outfits. I eventually outgrew my […]
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As regular readers of the divine Big City Life know, one of the enduring loves of my life is the spoilt-avo-eating-child-licking-scary-sounding Rottweiler, Hera. She adores me, or at least I like to think so, though a nagging doubt in the back of my mind persists that should I stop slipping her delicious delicacies she would turn […]
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One wouldn’t expect a knot to be the stuff of mythmaking, but it was a knot that launched Alexander the Great’s legend: the young general raised his sword and sliced through the devilishly snarled Gordian Knot and by doing so fulfilled a prophecy that the man who undid the impossible tangle would go on to […]
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Kelly Hoppen questions our answers This South African-born Londoner, whose creative and entrepreneurial projects extend far beyond her day job as an interior designer, took the time out of her busy schedule to answer a few of our questions. Hoppen’s recent ventures have seen her promoting the Prince’s Trust “Tomorrow” campaign and advocating for international […]
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“A goal without a plan is just a wish.” ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Some people have all the design ability in the world. They can zero in on a piece of furniture at fifty metres and immediately know exactly where to place it in such a way that it brings an entire room together. They can track […]
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