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.

The team behind this issue…

Home And Then Some…

Modern Living

The Decor Memo Make Mine Bespoke

The Decor Memo Invest In Local Art

The Decor Memo Nature Inside Out

Book Marked • New reads to inspire

Must Love Green • Need an excuse to get to play in your garden? This coffee-table book spans continents and centuries as it celebrates 250 of the world’s most gorgeous permanent gardens by leading garden designers, horticulturalists and landscape architects. Take inspo from all over – from the splendour of Versailles to the respite from the heat in Marrakesh. And everywhere in between.

Meet The Influencers • Here’s Cheska Stark’s cheat’s guide to who to follow locally for the most lustworthy interior feeds…

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Modern History • Artist Sally Arnold’s house in the Great Karoo is a pioneering instance of how local vernacular influences and materials could be harnessed to create something new and modern

WHITE & Bright • Nothing screams a fresh, fun update to your decor than a combo of brights and whites! Think clean walls and spaces with pops of colour, which take your interiors to a whole new level

Going Dutch • This house in the Cape Winelands takes references from traditional Cape Dutch architecture and creates a contemporary new order… With a vineyard and a gin garden

FARMHOUSE Glam • Just because you live in a farmhouse doesn’t mean you need to go rustic chic. Touches of gold and interesting textures may just be what your (barn) house needs

Shop Your Feed Lighting • See something you like on Insta? Us too! Adds to cart

Salvage Chic • Libby and Gerard de Villiers’ spacious Stellenbosch farmhouse is an ingenious home defined by a highly successful mix of styles encompassing new and old, recycled and bespoke

Shop Your Feed Kids • See something you like on Insta? Us too! Adds to cart

Down to Earth • The Gomes family’s dream to live more connected to the land and more in tune with themselves has been fulfilled with Jardim, their food garden and contemporary country home in the rural enclave of Noordhoek, Cape Town

BAR CART Revolution • It’s summer and the answer to easy entertaining is the ultimate bar cart! This stylish addition to your living area – in or outdoors – will easily become the life of the party. We’re thinking cocktail and gin tastings…

In Full Bloom • Nestled hillside in the Cape Winelands, a historic homestead celebrates the beauty of nature both indoors and out, its gardens and interiors inspired by a history of art

BOTANICAL Love • Bring the outdoors in by simply adding a touch of wild foliage to your interior schemes…

A Vision of Calm • Designer, mohair textile maker and creative collaborator Frances van Hasselt has created a unique home in the small town of Prince Albert in South Africas Great Karoo

COOL and Calm • Creating your home sanctuary as the ultimate design destination means having a space to breathe. Nothing allows you to do this more effectively than natural elements and cool colours

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All Aboard! • “The Ark”, a wooden villa that hugs the shores of a lagoon in South Africa’s Plettenberg Bay, provides the perfect breakaway for this surf-obsessed family. Combining sustainable materials with easy, modern living, it breathes new life into the concept of beach-shack design

BRINGING A Little Luxury • Just because it’s...