Building and Renovation

When it comes to property insights, Private Property doesn’t stop at the structural and financial aspects but extends to the interior as well. In the dynamic Lifestyle and Décor section, visitors get a colourful glimpse of the interior trends, landscaping solutions, home living and neighbourhood news. Here’s a look at the categories you can find in Lifestyle and Décor:

Design and Decor Garden and Outdoor Building and Renovation Green living Life at Home Know your Neighbourhood
Style on tap
Lifestyle and Decor

Style on tap

Styles may change but kitchens and bathrooms will always play an important role in the home, says Liza Watermeyer, Retail and Display Co-ordinator at Tile Africa.

Shelf improvement
Lifestyle and Decor

Shelf improvement

Modern-day storage solutions are as stylish as they are functional. Here, organisational strategies for turning clutter into character.

Property Advice

Comply or demolish

When building or moving into a new home, occupational certificates are as necessary as clearance certificates. WHAT certificates, you ask? Most simply, city councils issue occupancy certificates to certify that buildings have ...

Mythbusters
Lifestyle and Decor

Mythbusters

Fact: when you purchase a property, you’d like it to increase in value so that when you decide to sell, you’ll get more out than what you put in. This is the nature of all business. But this means you need to know what will ...

Lifestyle and Decor

Where ideas are shed

Roald Dahl is believed to have written every day for 30 years. He didn’t have a fancy office, giant mahogany desk and latest word processing instruments to aid him. Instead, he sat on an old chair in a small shed in his garden ...

Lifestyle and Decor

Pole dancing and other building no-nos

We all make mistakes – right? Absolutely.  However, most of us own up and go all out to ensure that the error is corrected in the shortest time possible. “Most of us” unfortunately does not appear to include Eskom, which seems ...

Storing and stashing
Lifestyle and Decor

Storing and stashing

Living among clutter is nobody’s idea of a fun time, but what do you do if your house just doesn’t have enough storage space?

Lifestyle and Decor

Go from “for sale” to “sold” in one clean sweep

According to a recent survey conducted by OLX on Facebook in South Africa, 37% of people say they cannot park cars in their garage because it is “full of stuff” and 85% say that most of the space in their garage is being taken ...

Lifestyle and Decor

Drug-resistant superbugs: they live among us

While most of us have heard of the term “superbug”, we assume that drug-resistant bacteria only infect those who are in hospitals. There is however increasing evidence that more and more people are being exposed to ...

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