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nthabi_taukobong

Award Wining Author, Holistic Designer, passionate about my continent. African Lioness, walking alongside my pride. This is my story...

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Today more than on any other birthday, I’m SUPER grateful that I’m still alive ... 😷🥳🤩🥂🎊🌈🥳🤩😷
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My B’day and you’re invited...💫
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Adding Cake Decorator to my CV 🥳!!! ✨
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Because I am enough... 💕
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Instagram post 2309549053279309797_1222271472 $The REAL Interior...💫 ✨ ✨ Research what you LOVE: ✨ I love EVERYTHING artistically creative! And I know for a fact there are many careers inside of me still to explore. ✨ So I use my life to express myself in the most creative way that fits my mood. Sometimes I’m designing my own clothing collection, other times I’m wearing my jewelry designer hat and on very rare occasions I even feel I can be the best dessert maker this side of the equator. ✨ All of these are parts of me, but where I always gravitate back towards is my interior space and connecting with beautiful designs that warm my soul... 👩🏽‍🎨 With Love & Pride, #keepingitreal . . . . . . . . . . . . #my #story #research #dream #job #love #hotel #designer #luxury #lifestyle #mentor #art #fabrics #furniture #accessories #throwback #online #ebook #stayhome #therealinterior #story #nthabitaukobong #book #interiordesign #architecture #bibliophile #read #literature #booksofinstagram #lionesslegacy @nthabi_taukobong ✨ eBOOK AVAILABLE ONLINE: ✨ www.nthabitaukobong.com @amazon {Link in BIO}$

Instagram post 2309499469005923846_1222271472 $The REAL Interior...💫 ✨ ✨ Research what you LOVE: ✨ What I’m loving right now is having reached a point in my career where I can share lessons learnt and creative journeys experienced with others from my own and very REAL experiences! ✨ In my early days, there were not many interior designers that I could reach out to and ask to mentor me when I started in my career, especially designers that looked like me. ✨ So I promised myself that when I reached a point in my career where I could give back, I’d make sure I’d give of my time and avail myself to others interested in this creative path. ✨ Because us who have walked before many are in a more favorable position to share real life nuggets of designer wisdom with each other... 👩🏽‍🎨 ✨ With Love & Pride, #keepingitreal . . . . . . . . . . . . #my #story #research #dream #job #love #hotel #designer #luxury #lifestyle #mentor #art #fabrics #furniture #accessories #throwback #online #ebook #stayhome #therealinterior #story #nthabitaukobong #book #interiordesign #architecture #bibliophile #read #literature #booksofinstagram #lionesslegacy @nthabi_taukobong ✨ eBOOK AVAILABLE ONLINE: ✨ www.nthabitaukobong.com @amazon {Link in BIO}$

Instagram post 2308136650532664909_1222271472 $The REAL Interior...💫 ✨ ✨ Research what you LOVE: ✨ I love design, but I love installation day just that little bit more. ✨ Especially at a hotel, because before hand over I have access to some of the best suites and rooms that I would most probably never get to access on my designer budget. ✨ But I learnt a trick or two during my early career days, as me and my fellow designers snooped around wanting to see how other hotels were designed. ✨ First, dress up as glamorous as the hotel seems fitting, walk up to reception and in your most official sounding voice ask to see one of their rooms and if available a suite. ✨ Most of the times I found that hotels were very accommodating with such a request! ✨ Then VOILA, undercover designer research begins ...👩🏽‍🎨 ✨ With Love & Pride, #keepingitreal . . . . . . . . . . . . #research #dream #job #love #hotel #designer #luxury #lifestyle #suitelife #installation #art #fabrics #furniture #accessories #throwback #online #ebook #stayhome #therealinterior #story #nthabitaukobong #book #interiordesign #architecture #bibliophile #read #literature #booksofinstagram #lionesslegacy @nthabi_taukobong ✨ eBOOK AVAILABLE ONLINE: ✨ www.nthabitaukobong.com @amazon {Link in BIO}$

Instagram post 2308123790519689107_1222271472 $The REAL Interior...💫 ✨ ✨ Research what you LOVE: ✨ Must be the fact that we’re ALL at home thinking about our future and relooking our lives and careers till now. ✨ Because I’ve received (definitely more than usual) tons of DMs, emails and messenger notifications from people asking me how can they get into this field of design. ✨ Most have reached a point where a second or third career path is needed and others are students wanting to make their own right choices. ✨ How did I choose what I wanted to do..? I traced back all of my passions and first loves and lined up a career that most suited what I was drawn to. ✨ Of course there were many times I questioned my decisions, and had to go back to the drawing board and tweak as well as improve on a few things. ✨ But at most, I choose where I’m most happiest and go with that. ✨ If there’s something I’m interested in I’m relentless with my pursuit of further knowledge on that particular subject, be it a car that I like, a place I want to visit or a course I want to study. I am known to spend months with my single minded focus, researching the hell out of it till I’m satisfied and can make an informed decision on how I want to move forward with it. ✨ Guess what, this ‘free time’ is really working out for me, because there are a few courses I need to research as I choose my next point of interest as the insatiable creative that I am...💫 ✨ Join me this Friday as I share one of many stories of how I ended up living my creative dream... 👩🏽‍🎨 With Love & Pride, #keepingitreal . . . . . . . . . . . . #research #dream #job #love #hotel #designer #luxury #lifestyle #suitelife #installation #art #fabrics #furniture #accessories #throwback #online #ebook #stayhome #therealinterior #story #nthabitaukobong #book #interiordesign #architecture #bibliophile #read #literature #booksofinstagram #lionesslegacy @nthabi_taukobong ✨ eBOOK AVAILABLE ONLINE: ✨ www.nthabitaukobong.com @amazon {Link in BIO}$

Instagram post 2308102921911207890_1222271472 $The REAL Interior...💫 ✨ ✨ Research what you LOVE: ✨ My love for luxury hotels came way before I chose to even study Interior Design. In my youth, during my spare time I was always cutting out from my travel magazines, facades and interiors of the finest hotels around the world. I created a collage of this and referred to it almost every day of my pre-designer life. ✨ I would go so far into my dream state as I looked at my hotel vision board, that I could even imagine hearing the music playing in the reception lobby and the smell of fresh flowers on arrival. ✨ As destiny would have it, my first job was at an international Interior Design company specializing in the design of high end hotels! ✨ Decades ago, I was the Junior Designer working on the Presidential Suites at the Cascades Hotel @suncityresortsa ✨ Installation day never felt so good ...💫 ✨ With Love & Pride, #keepingitreal . . . . . . . . . . . . #research #dream #job #love #hotel #designer #luxury #lifestyle #suitelife #installation #art #fabrics #furniture #accessories #throwback #online #ebook #stayhome #therealinterior #story #nthabitaukobong #book #interiordesign #architecture #bibliophile #read #literature #booksofinstagram #lionesslegacy @nthabi_taukobong ✨ eBOOK AVAILABLE ONLINE: ✨ www.nthabitaukobong.com @amazon {Link in BIO}$

Instagram post 2304580456022863208_1222271472 $The REAL Interior...💫 ✨ ✨ Discovering AFRICA: ✨ My interior design style in my home is inspired by my travels through Africa. ✨ Here I stand at the doorway into my African villa ...💫 ✨ With Love & Pride, #keepingitreal . . . . . . . . . . . . #discover #africa #my #heritage #culture #creative #legacy #handmade #perfectlyimperfect #art #fabrics #furniture #accessories #throwback #online #ebook #stayhome #therealinterior #story #nthabitaukobong #book #interiordesign #architecture #bibliophile #ilovebooks #read #literature #booksofinstagram #lionesslegacy @nthabi_taukobong ✨ eBOOK AVAILABLE ONLINE: ✨ www.nthabitaukobong.com @amazon {Link in BIO}$

Instagram post 2304522675299549107_1222271472 $The REAL Interior...💫 ✨ ✨ Discovering AFRICA: ✨ Here’s what I discovered about Africa, the ladies on the rest of the continent are very comfortable and at home in their flowing and colorful dresses. Be it an abaya, bubu or a kaftan, there’s this ease and comfort in their style that I found very captivating and graceful. ✨ One of my first real kaftans was a gift from my friend Dianne. She was the only woman I’d ever seen wearing her flowing garments as her daily wardrobe and she carried the look with such regal gorgeousness. ✨ I was obsessed with seeing her as often as I could just so I could catch a glimpse of her outfit that day! ✨ And now that I have a closet full of my own kaftans, when I wear one, I make sure to channel the energy of the strong and very beautiful African women that I’ve come across in my life’s journey...💫 ✨ With Love & Pride, #keepingitreal . . . . . . . . . . . . #discover #africa #my #heritage #culture #creative #legacy #handmade #perfectlyimperfect #art #fabrics #furniture #accessories #throwback #online #ebook #stayhome #therealinterior #story #nthabitaukobong #book #interiordesign #architecture #bibliophile #ilovebooks #read #literature #booksofinstagram #lionesslegacy @nthabi_taukobong ✨ eBOOK AVAILABLE ONLINE: ✨ www.nthabitaukobong.com @amazon {Link in BIO}$

Instagram post 2303715985884866391_1222271472 $The REAL Interior...💫 ✨ ✨ Discovering AFRICA: ✨ Either than the mamas selling mainly Zulu wear and accessories along the Durban beachfront, I never had a full understanding of what was being created and designed in Africa, while a design student living in KwaZulu-Natal Natal. ✨ Until one day my career literally plonked me in the middle of beautiful African fabrics, furniture, artifacts and artwork that I had never even imagined in my designer life existed on this continent. ✨ This was a photo shoot I did @amatuliartefacts 20 odd years ago. ✨ @houseandgardensa had asked me at that time, what space I’d be most happiest in to do a shoot for their magazine. Where was the place that most described my style..? ✨ And short of taking them on a wild walk through Africa, this was the next best place I knew of then ...💫 ✨ With Love & Pride, #keepingitreal . . . . . . . . . . . . #discover #africa #my #heritage #culture #creative #legacy #handmade #perfectlyimperfect #art #fabrics #furniture #accessories #throwback #online #ebook #stayhome #therealinterior #story #nthabitaukobong #book #interiordesign #architecture #bibliophile #ilovebooks #read #literature #booksofinstagram #lionesslegacy @nthabi_taukobong ✨ (📸: Condé Nast Independent Magazines - Melanie Cleary) ✨ eBOOK AVAILABLE ONLINE: ✨ www.nthabitaukobong.com @amazon {Link in BIO}$

Instagram post 2303058521350951743_1222271472 $The REAL Interior...💫 ✨ ✨ Discovering AFRICA: ✨ As a creative, I was fortunate to discover the beauty that is Africa and our rich heritage and culture in design way before I even knew what being an Interior Designer based in Africa meant. ✨ And over the years, my journey of discovery has lead me to almost all the corners of the continent and into our deep belly of history and tradition. ✨ It’s a very good time creatives, to discover why we are where we are right now and what our global magic has always been. ✨ Join me this Friday as I share my journey of design in AFRICA...💫 ✨ With Love & Pride, #keepingitreal . . . . . . . . . . #discover #africa #heritage #culture #creative #legacy #handmade #online #ebook #bookclub #stayhome #therealinterior #my #story #nthabitaukobong #book #storytelling #interiordesign #architecture #bibliophile #bookofthemonth #ilovebooks #read #instabook #african #literature #onelove #booksofinstagram #lionesslegacy @nthabi_taukobong eBOOK AVAILABLE ONLINE: ✨ www.nthabitaukobong.com @amazon {Link in BIO}$

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