Cara Saven Wallpaper : 1. You can never have too many bookcases, or fake it more beautifully than this grey and white design.|
Cara Saven Wallpaper : 2. Revel in luxury at the fabulous beauty bar in Green Point where the decor harks back to the fifties. Cara says it took them a while to perfect the font of this diary-style wordy wallpaper. We think the writing on the wall is just beautiful.|
Cara Saven Wallpaper : 3. Telling you exactly what the snazzy property development company it was designed for does, without too much fuss, is this simple black and white two-tone design.|
Cara Saven Wallpaper : 4. Have good-all round fun with paper plates on your guest toilet walls. We’ve heard designer Lara Myerson has gone as far as to put real plates on her wallpaper ones for that 3D feel.|
Cara Saven Wallpaper : 5. Andrew Martin inspired this design — perfect for a boy’s room. Check out the old lockers!|
Cara Saven Wallpaper : 6. Talking about education, now add faraway lands and exotic travels and you have a wallpaper with easy, natural colours that will suit any space.|
Cara Saven Wallpaper : 7. Looking fabulous behind designer Michelle O’Quinneagain’s lounge suite, is this pink Protea and indigenous flower design for Dr. Office.|
Cara Saven Wallpaper : 8. Designed for Karen Marsden Interiors, this graffiti wallpaper started off with an image of a brick wall, and then came the names of the family’s four children. Cara also redesigned the covering of the games consul and pool table.|
Cara Saven Wallpaper : 9. Made up of famous South African newspaper headlines and articles, this is a wall that will educate and amaze you. Who needs other reading material in the loo?|
Cara Saven Wallpaper : 10. This bright pencil wallpaper design is just too cool for school. Let it liven up your little one’s room!|
Cara Saven Wallpaper : 11. This seventies retro look is just great. Cara did this forest landscape pro bono for Groote Schuur to help make the patients’ lives, sitting around for long periods of time in the waiting room, a little more bearable.|
Cara Saven Wallpaper : 12. And then there is Banksy. This is the sweetest image, one that instantly softened our hearts and is an absolute favourite.|
WORDS Debbie Loots
We were so charmed by the fresh and flowery wallpaper that’s brightening up the new VISI Spring Issue cover, that we visited its creator Cara, of Cara Saven Photography, to see what other lovely wall adornments she has to show. Here are our favourite prints. Enjoy!