Take one look at Sandra Stevenson’s Joburg

home (see page 10) and you’ll see that she has filled it with heirlooms, favourite finds and beautiful art – she has surrounded herself with the things she loves and this is what makes her home feel so effortlessly lovely.

Isn’t this, after all, what making a home is all about? Irrespective of style and size, homes are places in which to create memories – places that should make you feel happy.

From playing cards on your grandparents’ lounge floor with cousins as a kid to lying in bed with your little ones on a Sunday morning or sitting around the lunch table with friends, chatting and drinking red wine: this is the stuff that counts – the recollections of loved spaces that we’ll have forever.