Interior designer Lisa Storer’s home outside Johannesburg blends rustic warmth with industrial simplicity
"A room is never complete. It's a process," she continues."As you live in the room, you get a better sense of what it needs, and I add layers until you have a room that feels like part of the family."
Shocks of wallpaper adorn her daughters' bedroom walls, but it's the whimsical beds that inspire doses of fantasy - one a romantic, French white cane wedding-cake-of-a-bed, the other an antique upholstered Corbeille, fit for a princess. Many pieces have been collected on buying trips abroad. Her collections of vases, figurines and curiosities are sourced from travels in India, Morocco and Mexico, as well as pieces from Kenya and South African artisans.
Her playful touch is evident everywhere. Dried flowers in muted tones are swept together in bunches and strategically placed on ornate brass side tables in a bathroom or emerging from shelves hosting waterfalls of green plants. Rug choices sway from shaggy to shabby - Lisa is not afraid to mix things up.
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