FLOOR PLAN

SITTING ROOM Adjacent to the dining area is a cosy sitting room (opposite, top left & right), which Paula calls her cinema. It’s fitted with a projector to watch Korean films, an obsession picked up from her movie-buff brother. The back wall is dramatically dark (for similar, try Dulux Marais), the perfect foil for an etching by South African artist Diane Victor. Above an antique bench (top left) hangs a propaganda poster found in Hanoi, while the octopus is a photo taken by Paula in Zanzibar. The National Geographic magazines, below, are essential for this nomad. Looking from the sitting room to the dining room (top right), more artworks and pieces from Paula’s unusual collection; here, the group of six frames display an entomologist’s 1864 field drawings of insects on leaves. The adjacent wall is hung with vintage fencing masks.