Where we work
Interior decorators in the Cape Town City Bowl
A boutique studio working across the city, from City Bowl apartments to family homes in the suburbs and estates beyond.
Cape Town is not one interiors market, it is several. A De Waterkant apartment with a fixed footprint and a heritage overlay asks for a completely different approach to a new build on a Northern Suburbs estate. We work across all of them, and the first conversation is always about which one you are actually in.
City Bowl work tends to be about extracting more from a small, valuable footprint. Ceiling heights, borrowed light, and joinery that does three jobs instead of one. Where a building has heritage protection or a body corporate with opinions, we plan around those constraints early rather than discovering them at installation.
Commercial work in the city is where the studio commercial portfolio sits: Aspire Offices was a full turnkey project, boardroom through to reception and breakout. It is one project rather than a sector speciality, and we would rather say so than imply a fitout practice that does not exist.
Wanda is personally involved from concept through to completion, which for a Cape Town project means walking the space with the architect or contractor rather than reviewing photographs of it.
Suburbs and estates
- City Bowl
- Gardens
- Oranjezicht
- Tamboerskloof
- Green Point
- De Waterkant
- Waterfront
What projects here usually involve
Apartment reworks
Small footprints, fixed services, joinery doing the heavy lifting.
City family homes
Older stock reworked for open plan living without losing the character.
Commercial work
The Aspire Offices turnkey project, the studio commercial fitout.
Start with a conversation about the space.
A no-obligation consultation with Wanda Michelle. We walk through scope, timelines and budget before anything is designed.