Exquisite photos display clever decorating ideas that will instantly brighten every room and make great use of what you already own. Use a splash of color for accents, create magical spaces with sparkling tea and fairy lights, display the family album in a new way without spending your inheritance on frames, bring nature indoors by using tree trunks as tables, and more.
Annemarie Meintjes is a contributor to Johannesburg's House and Leisure magazine. Her Great Ideas column is extremely popular with readers and reflects her creativity and ability to come up with stylish, practical, quick and affordable decor solutions. She is the author of Short-cuts to Storage, also published by New Holland, and lives in Johannesburg, South Africa. Karen Roos developed her sense of style as a fashion editor at Glamour in New York, at Cosmopolitan and as a founder editor of Red magazine in South Africa. She is the author of Eight Styles, also published by New Holland. She recently studied fine art in Amsterdam and lives in Cape Town, South Africa.