Category: Making a Home
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Why Every Freelancer Needs to Schedule a Fridge Break Right Now
Being the master of your own schedule is liberating and heady. You feel powerful, you feel inspired and…you feel like scrolling Facebook. I’m going to let you in on a little secret. Let it happen, sometimes. Scrolling on Facebook and pithy updates on Twitter can be good for you. Here’s the trick to it: schedule…
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Oh no! Our House Looks Like it’s Been Remodelled by Miley Cyrus
Whenever we moan about “the project”, everyone seems to say “all builders are the same”. At first, I didn’t agree, but after a considerable amount of introspection, I think they’re right.
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The Day My Daughter Turned Into Darth Vader
My middle and youngest daughters have been sharing a bedroom for the past couple of years. Their cohabitation has always been an uneasy affair, but it has devolved into all-out sibling war in recent months.
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How Spanky Miranda Taught Me to Leave Home & Love Life
I feel more at ease and more at home in my car than I do in my actual home. I would rather spend eight hours on the road in my car than sitting at home. You could argue that I only sleep at home, and that really I live in my car.
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Why I’m So Happy to be Home Alone in My Faraway Tree
I had no idea I was going to love my tree platform so much, but I do. It’s my refuge, my calm-down spot, my ideas hub, my gratitude place and a good hidey hole, all in one.
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Why You Won’t See Me in the Kitchen during a Stormers Match
The Stormers Bug bit me when, by virtue of my job, I started to be invited to watch rugby at the Newlands box with a client. What started out as a ‘nice day out’ with my husband has ended as passionate love for rugby and what it stands for.
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Happiness is a Smaller Home, Filled With Love & Laughter
When you own a big house, it comes with complications. When it’s time to replace the gutters, for example, there are what feels like kilometres of guttering to replace. The garden takes a lot of time and effort to maintain just to a tidy standard.
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Thank You For My Lovely New House, Barack Obama
When I met my husband, he’d just gone halfies on a townhouse with his brother Phil. A sprawling bachelor pad with a case of Hansa and another case of Red Bull by the front door, and a kitchen counter that functioned solely as a place to put greasy takeaway boxes and the keys to their…
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You’ll definitely Play the Bounce with your New Home!
Whether you’re house-hunting, making your first offer or securing finance – you’re playing such an odd-shaped ball, there’s no telling where it will land. No matter how good you are or how much you’ve practiced!
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How I Lost My Heart to Rugby in the 90s
Suddenly rugby was transformed from something that smelly Michealhouse boys did to get the attention of the A team hockey girls, into a point of national pride. I HAD to get on top of this game.