Arabella Youens
Property and Interiors Journalist at Freelance
Contributing Editor at Homes & Gardens Magazine
Property & interiors journalist for @thetimes, @telegraph and magazines
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1 month ago |
thetimes.com | Arabella Youens
Anyone looking for a bit of design direction this summer should take note of the increasing number of big-name interior designers offering to share what they've learnt through workshops, masterclasses and creative boot camps, which take place in person or online. Here's a round-up of our favourites. Courses in person When the LA-based British interior designer Kathryn M Ireland was pregnant with her first son, she bought a run-down farmhouse in the Midi-Pyrénées in the south of France.
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1 month ago |
telegraph.co.uk | Arabella Youens
Britain’s holiday let capital faces a ‘rude awakening’ amid council tax raid
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1 month ago |
countrylife.co.uk | Arabella Youens
Presentation is key. When it comes to marketing a prime property, especially among top estate agents, it is vital. With ever-decreasing attention spans online, it only takes a couple of seconds for a potential buyer to discount a house. This means using professional photographers — never amateurs or phone snapshots — to ensure the highest quality images that truly reflect the home.
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1 month ago |
countrylife.co.uk | Arabella Youens
Wendy Nicholls joined the interior-decorating firm Sibyl Colefax & John Fowler in 1976, having previously worked for Mann & Fleming and Charles Hammond. Throughout her career, her mantra has always been to create spaces that reflect the owner’s identities. In the case of this set in Albany, the Grade I-listed apartment complex on Piccadilly, London W1, that was converted from a mansion in 1802, the client was ‘very much a client who knew exactly what she liked’.
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2 months ago |
countrylife.co.uk | Arabella Youens
Stephen Sprake says he’s easily bored. During Covid, the antique dealer specialising in European antique and decorative items, decided to shut his shop, Sans Pretension, on Church Street in Marylebone and sell the loft he owned off Old Street. Looking for his next project, he spotted a Grade II*-listed former captain’s house within the historic dockyards at Chatham in Kent.
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#journorequest Looking to talk to people who have bought or sold a property recently where a cash buyer (ie mortgage free) was in the mix. Is cash still king? For the Telegraph/Money section
#journorequest looking for a case study for the Telegraph who has been working somewhere remote and is now being called back into the office in the city (part or full time). They might have left their job as a result. Happy for it to be a home seller or new business owner
#journorequests I'm keen to talk a family where the grandparents are selling their family home to downsize (or are thinking about it) while their grandchildren (in their 20s) are in generation rent--for the Telegraph main paper
