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WHO LIVES HERE? Errieda and Ian du Toit with their dogs, Poerring and Tjoklit

WHERE Welgemoed, Cape Town

After almost 39 years, her beloved husband is still a romantic who knows how to surprise her, says food writer Errieda du Toit. For her birthday recently, Ian pulled another rabbit out of the hat: a striking focal wall that transformed their living room into an art gallery and had the unsuspecting Errieda gasping with delight.

“Ian really knows how to make me happy,” she says. “Our living room hadn’t excited me for a long time; the walls had been the same boring old beige for almost 12 years. I had fallen out of love with them. In addition, we’d collected a lot of paintings

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