Wow, how we love each and every renovation project that comes through our studio. All our spatial planning and design skills need to be applied to achieve both a practical and beautiful result...and within a budget! With the renovation of House D, we needed to upgrade a drab home, and add value in terms of lifestyle and rands. This young family had a good budget - one that we wanted to utilise with the utmost effectiveness. The question was, how do you add value without blowi

Read on for the design hacks we used to overcome some existing blah moments on this renovation, as well as some tricky problems we needed to solve... First off, this home was dreary and in need of a personality. We decided to use texture and some well placed pops of colour to bring it to life. We did keep it light and breezy with minimalism in mind to ensure a timeless design. The passageway to the bedrooms was not a very uplifting zone of the home. In general I dread long na