Property and in particular reinventing spaces has always been a passion. I can still remember my first project; I was in high school and my parents had bought an old 1970’s house. They decided to gut it, skim over all the stipple walls, and redesign the kitchen and bathrooms. It seemed natural for me to…
Coming in 2015 – a collection of vintage warehouses and creative spaces for rent in Woodstock’s Chapel Street Nic Tamlin Interior Design, Cape Town, is working on an exciting new property development soon to blossom on Chapel Street, Woodstock. On offer is a collection of vintage warehouses and creative spaces available to artisans, creatives and…
Nic Tamlin Interior Design Commissioned to Invigorate Student Eatery C3 provides food services for companies with large staff compliments, or institutions like universities, and they were looking for a cafe concept to cater for students in a new study center in Stellenbosch. The design for the eatery needed to be simple and cost effective but…
Greenery in unexpected places is always so refreshing, seeing a garden growing up a wall in an urban setting is even cooler! I hope to apply the idea of green walls in a shop interior, and maybe even to a furniture design soon. Take a peak at this article I found by National Geographic.
A while ago Nic watched a TED talk that spoke of getting rid of the excess in your life, all the things you don’t really need, but insist on carrying with you. There is a feeling of simplicity that he enjoys about leaving home without a wallet – just a few notes and maybe one card. Besides the assortment of plastic cards…
Lighting can be a wonderful thing to play with when designing the interior of your home. Nic pays a huge amount of attention to the lighting design of any project he’s involved in. He’s recently had fun designing a simple, playful light that doubles as a bookmark light and actually looks like a small house. Nic recycled a…
Nic recently created a woodwork space which will allow him to assemble prototypes and build once-off furniture pieces. Crafting furniture has been in his family for generations, and today he placed some of his grandfather, and great grandfather’s woodwork tools on his studio wall. Have a look at the photos.