Repurposed Spaces

COVID-19 has shaped and affected the future of home interior design, writes Ntaba Phili

- Ntaba Phili

The world of design is a rapidly changing one. New technologies, greener, more efficient products architecturally and aesthetically, as well as awareness of repurposing and optimising, were setting the scene even before COVID-19.

But since the pandemic, this is even more so. In an industry that prides itself on innovation and continuous development, even we in the design world have had to adapt to a new market, with a different set of requirements, functions and limitations. And that’s where we thrive. It’s the perfect melting pot for creative solutions.

Not only has this inspired adapting and reshaping our businesses, services and roll out, but it has broken new ground in exposing our greater social responsibility. A home should not only be a place of refuge, but should reveal form and function in ways that now encompass so many more complex – and often opposing – needs.