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Introducing my new online e-design service!
One of my main goals for 2019 is to build my online interior design business. I was fortunate enough to work with some lovely clients in 2018 in their homes around Surrey/London, which I really enjoyed. This year I am looking to continue in-home consultations but am also planning to develop my business through providing…
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Living room colour schemes to suit your style
Happy New Year to you! I hope you had a peaceful break over the Christmas and New Year period. I spent a lot of my free time looking through Pinterest and some of my interior design magazines in order to start planning the room decor for the house we are hoping to move to in…
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Planning a Christmas dining table
This year we are hosting Christmas dinner in our home and I’m really looking forward to it. We’ve hosted Christmas dinner at our house before, but the first year we did it I was so concerned about the food and drinks that I completely forgot to make any plans for the table. I managed to…
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My tips on preparing well for Christmas
A few weeks ago, a friend asked me what my tips were for getting organised for Christmas. It was an interesting question as I haven’t ever considered that I have any particular tips or routines to follow each year. However as I thought about it further, I realised that I do have a few habits…
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7 Furniture Trends For 2019
We are hoping to move house in early 2019 and so I have my eyes open for some fresh inspiration for our new home. There are some fantastic trends in furniture on the horizon and there is bound to be one that falls in line with your taste, style and budget. Take a look below…
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Living room tour
I’m excited to share with you some images for my living room tour today. I’ve been wanting to document our home for a while as we are planning on moving early next year and so this is a good way to remember our home as it is now. Mr P and I have loved living…
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Sunday night feeling
Hello there! How are you? If you are in the UK then it’s likely that half term was last week or this week just gone, so you may have been enjoying some holiday time. We didn’t have a break over the half term holiday as Bugsy is only 3 years old and is with a…
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What I learnt from some of the UK’s most successful interior designers…
Trying to build your own business is not easy. But you didn’t need me to tell you that! One of the biggest challenges I face whilst trying to build my interior design business is carving out enough time to spend on growing my brand. You may know that I have a 3 year old at…
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Styling ideas for small apartments
One of my interior design loves is seeing how designers style small spaces. I’m a sucker for the room sets at Ikea and have been ever since the early days of my marriage, when my husband and I would trawl IKEA for furniture we could afford in order to fill our first home together. We…
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Educate series: How resilient are you?
You’re late. It’s raining and you just broke the zip on your favourite coat. Not only do you need to get to your meeting in the next 30 minutes, you also need to arrive calm and ready to present a new concept to your boss and some difficult co-workers. Or perhaps you’re late, tired from…
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