Rachel Edwards

London

Content Editor, Licensing at Hearst UK

Articles

Introducing House Beautiful's Carpet Collection at Tapi

2 weeks ago | housebeautiful.com | Rachel Edwards

House Beautiful has launched a collection of carpets at Tapi, designed to bring modern comfort and effortless style to your home. Whether you're decorating your first flat or giving your space a well-deserved refresh, this collection offers a stylish starting point – quite literally – from the ground up. There are six standout ranges to choose from, each available in a variety of trend-forward shades and all designed to complement the way you live today.
Country Living Launches Timeless Flooring Collection With Tapi

2 weeks ago | countryliving.com | Rachel Edwards

Country Living has launched a collection of carpets in collaboration with Tapi, making it that much easier to create a classic country look in your own home. The collection includes six carpet ranges in a myriad of colours, combining comfort, character and quality. Available exclusively at Tapi, customers can explore the collection online – and use the handy visualiser to picture each design in situ – or visit one of Tapi’s showrooms nationwide to view samples and receive personalised advice.
How an Interior Designer Rescued Her Victorian Kitchen from a Dodgy DIY Extension

3 weeks ago | housebeautiful.com | Rachel Edwards

It takes a pretty seasoned creative eye – and a strong stomach – to look at a dodgy DIY kitchen extension with a plastic roof and envision something warm, characterful and rustic in its place. Interior designer Charlotte Simpson, founder of Lotte Studio, has both in spades. It took five years from the day she purchased her terrace house in south London to renovate completely – rising damp and a manhole in the middle of the floor derailed any hope of a quick fix – but her patience has paid off.
Win £3,000 to spend on the Country Living collection at DFS

3 weeks ago | msn.com | Rachel Edwards

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Win £3,000 to spend on the Country Living collection at DFS

3 weeks ago | countryliving.com | Rachel Edwards

To celebrate the launch of our extended collection of dining, bedroom and occasional furniture at DFS, we’re offering one lucky reader the chance to win £3,000 to spend on our timeless collection. Enter to win Looking for a new bed? We have two quintessential country pieces to choose from. Want to refresh your dining room? Take your pick from our range of rustic tables, chairs and space-saving benches.
23 stylish picnic sets and accessories for outdoor dining

1 month ago | countryliving.com | Rachel Edwards

Anastasiia Krivenok//Getty ImagesIt's officially picnic season. Pack your trusty wicker basket with a bottle of wine and nibbles, and head out to a park or beauty spot – with spring and summer stretching optimistically ahead of us, there has never been a better time to upgrade your picnic toolkit.
5 Tricks This Stylist Used To Maximise Space In Her New Bungalow

1 month ago | housebeautiful.com | Rachel Edwards

There is no space too small for a brilliant decorating scheme, and stylist and author Emily Henson understands this better than anyone. Emily moved to a bungalow in Margate a few years ago (read about the whole renovation here) and has painstakingly transformed it using all the small-space tricks in her arsenal. Below, Emily shares the top five tips she has learned along the way. 1.
What is your home's interior design superpower? And are you making the most of it?

1 month ago | housebeautiful.com | Rachel Edwards

What is your home's interior design superpower? And are you making the most of it? According to interior designer Cathy Dean, founder of Studio Dean, finding and playing to the unique strengths in your home is the key to successful interior design. Some superpowers, such as high ceilings or floods of natural light, jump out immediately, whilst others take some coaxing to reveal. And some you have to invent yourself.
An Interior Designer's Viral Hack For Transforming A £1.50 Supermarket Basil

1 month ago | housebeautiful.com | Rachel Edwards

If you like the look of vibrant, leafy houseplants but find them prohibitively expensive or difficult to maintain, this £1.50 supermarket basil hack is for you. Interior designer Leanne Kilroy (find her @goodboneslondon, and have a look at her gorgeous kitchen renovation while you're at it) went viral millions of times over when she shared her enormous mega basils, grown from a humble £1.50 supermarket plant.
Before & After: The colour rule defining this interior designer's kitchen

1 month ago | housebeautiful.com | Rachel Edwards

Interior designer Lucinda Kellaway has the type of kitchen that ends up on everyone's moodboards. Maybe it's the elegant period features and parquet floors that do it for you, or the warm colours enhanced by floods of natural light. It could even be the gigantic kitchen island with an integrated wine fridge. But whatever wishlist feature you spot is the result of sheer creativity and one hell of a renovation.