Lifestyle and Decor

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
Lifestyle and Decor

Food gardens take root

Over the past few years, various initiatives have been undertaken in Johannesburg’s inner city to revitalise it and improve the lives of those living there. One of the latest initiatives is the ...

Is grey the new gold?
Lifestyle and Decor

Is grey the new gold?

Whether or not you own or rent your home, you’re paying twice for the water you’re using: first when it arrives at your house, and then again when you throw it down the drain. And then you’re paying again if you want to water ...

Renovation can be a bad plan
Lifestyle and Decor

Renovation can be a bad plan

By renovating your property you can design the perfect home for yourself. It can be an exciting process, as well as a rewarding one – especially from the point of view of an investor (which you are, as a home owner). Renovation ...

Lifestyle and Decor

Give your investment wings

One thing we know: when it comes to enhancing your investment: going green will improve both the value of your home and the quality of our environment (Don’t just dream green) – so it makes sense to spend with as much care on ...

Lifestyle and Decor

Kitchen wisdom

For many, the kitchen is the most essential room in the home, a place where families gather around the table to chat about the day’s events

Lifestyle and Decor

The tile style file

Have you ever been in a home where the furniture was completely mismatched? Maybe the décor was cheesy and the tiles were better suited to a 1970s palette?

Lifestyle and Decor

Haunted houses: the next market bubble?

Looking to occupy a new home? Get to know the provisions of the National Haunting Regulations before you do. That’s the opinion of SpookedProperty.co.za principal agent, Ivan Terfritenya. He said that South Africa remains a ...

Taking the indoors out
Lifestyle and Decor

Taking the indoors out

Anyone who spent time on a verandah during the 70s will remember the term “waffle bum”. This affliction ailed us all at some stage and was acquired from sitting on latticed metal stoep furniture. Cushions were often an ...

Lifestyle and Decor

Plant local; grow wild

You remember that hen-and-chicken plant that always stood in the hallway of your great-grandma’s old Victorian house? It came originally from South Africa. In fact, the hen-and-chicken (or spider plant: Chlorophytum comosum) ...

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