Make It Your Own
Home South Africa|May/June 2021
Give a space fresh energy, inside or out, with paint and tiles.
Johana Neilson, Marian van Wyk and Marie Opperman
Make It Your Own

Home is where the hearth is

The Salt River, Cape Town home of contemporary visual artist Liza Grobler and her husband, painter and sculptor Norman O’Flynn, is filled with art and colour. When they had to work from home during the winter of 2020 due to Covid-19 restrictions, they immediately had a fireplace installed. The Kratki fireplace is finished off with cheerful blue tiles, with one cheeky red tile as a playful accent that also picks up on other red elements in the space.

Liza was thrilled when she found the free-form granite offcut on which the fireplace rests. “There are a lot of organic elements in the house and I knew it would look great here,” she says. Liza’s artistic home is featured in Home Paint It 2021, on sale now.

Tiles from Pudlo; granite offcut from WOMAG

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This story is from the May/June 2021 edition of Home South Africa.

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