Old, new & retro

An interior decorator shows how well different styles and textures come together in her own home.

- Haidee Muller-Isaacs

As a young girl, Elzeli Krause’s mom gave her free rein to decorate her bedroom as inspired by her own ideas. “I could choose my own fabric at the shops and then she’d make me curtains and bedding. I changed the décor and wall colours every year.”

In Grade 10, she rummaged for her first pieces of furniture in second-hand stores, much to the amusement of her brother. “He just couldn’t understand how I could blow my pocket money on old furniture. But those very couches now stand in our farmhouse in Philippolis in the Free State.”