DESIGN INSIGHTS: Rooms with Personality

I have a confession to make — I have always found it hard to follow a recipe, any recipe for that matter.

Nine times out of ten, halfway through a recipe for a delectable dessert that I really want to try — I will start doing the what ifs….

What if I add orange juice instead of pineapple (and nine times out of ten that is out of necessity as I don’t have pineapples in my fridge) or what if I add maple syrup instead of brown sugar.

You can imagine how these recipes turn out — sometimes heading straight for the bin or sometimes so surprisingly good that my husband and kids want the same again! But alas! it never turns out the same next time as by next time I have completely forgotten what I had substituted what with. So you can say I am a bit of a hit or miss in the kitchen, but secretly I think that is because I have some deep rooted problem with conformity. Anything or anyone trying to make me be or do just so, awakens the rebel in me — and I always try and give everything a bit of my mark.

And I think that’s why I love interior design as a discipline so much, it does not follow any set rules, there is no set method involved — you can choose and alter and mix and match, bring in old, use new — everything goes, there is a sense of freedom and spontaneity that is lacking in many other disciplines. But…