Afro Decor: A Life of Modern Luxury

Written by Elka Schaimberg
Monday, 11 July 2011 11:21

Style and sense go completely hand-in-hand when creating a well balanced home that works for you. Enrich your space with gorgeous interiors, and let the latest advancements in high tech home controls give you the sophisticated edge that every contemporary home deserves.

OKHA Design & Interiors

OKHA Design & Interiors has become one of South Africa’s finest luxury design brands. Combining quality and experience, OKHA aspires to a look that is current and timeless, sexy and elegant. OKHA interiors have a clean but rich energy that calms and invigorates the senses. OKHA radiates a distinctive personal style that truly epitomises African luxury.

OKHA sources high-quality wares from South African artists, manufacturers and crafts people, items that can totally compete in the international arena. In addition to a wide range of sleek, modern furniture, OKHA carries a range of locally produced interior accessories, artworks and carpets. Let the fabrics, colours and textures seduce your eyes and the innovative creations of OKHA make you feel at home.

For more information go to www.okha.com

Wiser Home Control

Wiser Home Control, brought to you by global energy-management specialist Schneider Electric South Africa, is a truly integrated home-control solution that interlinks the electrical, multimedia and telecommunications worlds, creating one user-friendly interoperable solution. The control enables users to set programmes to adapt to their preferred living patterns for a better quality of life and manage home equipment from anywhere and at any time via 3G mobile phones or web-enabled devices.

While appliances such as the television, audio-visual system, computer, lights, curtains and mobile phones may all be user friendly on their own, each device works independently of the others and his its own control device. This means a myriad of controls and switches that add complexity to the life of users. In conventional homes, lighting, security, home theatres, appliances, computers and climate control may be integrated, but the system is always biased towards the main device.

With Wiser Home Control, the same sophisticated, consistent and intuitive user interface is installed across different control devices such as 3G mobile phones and computers. This means that a mobile phone or computer can be used to check if all is well when the home owner is away, or to reset security systems if there are false alarms.

Changes or adjustments can easily be made to the programme over the internet, thereby reducing the need and cost for technician intervention and time spent waiting for a technician to arrive.
With Wiser Home Control, users can also plan wisely to achieve an eco-friendly and energy efficient way of life, without compromising on style, as a reliable and intuitive user interface across different control devices encourages an effort to maintain energy-saving behaviour. Plus the scalable solution matches different design needs and eco-friendly practices.

For more information contact Juanita Els at juanita.els@schneider-electric.com or (011) 254 6400