Modern Living

Modern Living is a modern interior décor magazine, packed with inspiration, trends, style and shopping. Its focus is on aspirational homes across beach, rustic, urban and apartment living, with plenty of shoppable pages to help readers identify their style, be inspired by the spaces around them and invest in their favourite pieces.

Modern Living

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The team behind this issue…

Modern Socialgram • The Modern-approved accounts to follow right now…

HERE ARE THE HOMEWARE PRODUCTS THE TEAM IS LOVING RIGHT NOW…

The Decor Memo

Hot Right Now Glossy Finishes • Goodbye, matte decor. Don’t call us, we’ll call you. Here are our favourite products to help you jump on the high-gloss trend

New Cooks On The Block • The restaurants to head to in Cape Town and Joburg this season

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Bookmarked • New inspiration can be found right here…

Hot Right Now Colour Up • Those super-popular white Instagram kitchens are now a thing of the past. This year, it’s all about embracing colour and introducing some fun into your space. Here’s how to get started

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HOME FREE • CREATE THE KITCHEN OF YOUR DREAMS WITH MILESTONE KITCHENS

Hot Right Now Sweaters For Furniture • According to the WGSN, dressing up your furniture is the big thing for 2023, which is perfect for those of us who change our minds often. Here, the throws, scatters and rugs to dress up your space…

Create A Garden Wish List • Plus the inspiration to help you get started, thanks to two gorgeous new books…

Pick and choose your inspo from Garden Style: A Book Of Ideas • As author Heidi Howcroft says: “Gardens have never been as important as they are today. The breadth of styles and types is hugely varied. Everything goes, whether inspired by the past or looking towards the future, from traditional vegetable plots to vertical gardens and from nature-filled designs to sleek, modernist creations.”

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Best Of Times • A sensitively renovated heritage farmhouse on South Africa’s Garden Route seamlessly combines old and new, with bold design choices giving it new life

Material Honesty • A nuanced interior and subtle architecture make this barn-style holiday home in the Cape winelands a prime retreat

Still Life • A heritage cottage in South Africa’s arid outback is saturated with expressive furnishings, magpie finds and earthy hues to set a new tone for a couple’s retreat

The Farm Kitchen • This mysterious little barn-like building on a farm in the Cradle of Humankind in Gauteng – essentially a kitchen with an accompanying organic vegetable garden – was hand crafted over four years reusing salvaged materials

Stable Mates • This decorator couple’s English countryside home is a converted stable block that’s eclectically decorated and designed for easy living

Far From The Madding Crowd • Country life doesn’t get more idyllic for this family of five. Nestled amongst the orchards of their Elgin Valley fruit farm, home is a charming celebration of living both indoors and out

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Where The Heart Is • Johannesburg architect Anthony Orelowitz has designed a home for his family that reinvents what it means to make a haven in the city

Artistic Expression • This reinvigorated late modernist home at the foot of Table Mountain has become an ever-evolving personal exhibition space for its gallerist owners and their young family

Fresh Start • Interior designer Lynne Harris-Whitfield has melded old and new in her relaxed family home in Cape Town, which combines considered space planning with a trove of creative touches

Quiet Riot • By offsetting elegant restraint with strong notes of natural, artistic and design exuberance,...