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:

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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) ...

Lifestyle and Decor

Bitten by the DIY bug – and loving it

Nephew Fixit was on a roll. Fortunately his new home was spacious enough for fabulous renovations, and even more fortunately, he had the budget. For us galpals over coffee, we felt fortunate too ...

Lifestyle and Decor

Conserve SA’s liquid asset

South Africa is a semi-arid country with an average annual rainfall of approximately 450mm. This is well below the world average of 860mm.

Should I buy or build a house?
Lifestyle and Decor

Should I buy or build a house?

It’s probably the oldest question in the property investment book: should I build my next home, or buy an existing one? The very fact that this question has had such a long and illustrious ...

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