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5 days 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.
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1 week 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.
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1 week 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.
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2 weeks ago | 
countryliving.com | Rachel Edwards
Antiques are a well-worn route to rooms that feel settled, storied and never too new. And as our appetite for these sorts of spaces grows, so does the demand for furniture and homeware with age and provenance. In 2025, a number of antique and vintage collectibles are being quietly reappraised, from copper pans rehung in farmhouse kitchens to elegant Murano chandeliers and Deco-era mirrors.
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4 weeks ago | 
housebeautiful.com | Rachel Edwards
When stylist and author Emily Henson started her property search on the north coast of Kent, she viewed a succession of Victorian townhouses, waiting to be struck with an instinctive sense of belonging. When that feeling eventually came, it was, quite unexpectedly, for a rundown bungalow. Beyond the dingy rooms, rotten windows and asbestos-ridden floors, Emily saw a home surrounded by a garden and bathed in light from sunrise to sunset, with a view of the sea just half a mile away.
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4 weeks ago | 
msn.com | Rachel Edwards
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4 weeks ago | 
countryliving.com | Rachel Edwards
If the thought of decorating a whole room with statement wallpaper feels utterly intimidating, take a moment to look through our home tour with wallpaper designer Annika Reed. Annika's home is confidently covered in her own designs – a whimsical pegasus motif in her daughter's bedroom, a dark botanical pattern in her own – that are eye-catching but never overwhelming. Living with strident florals or bright stripes is not for the faint-hearted, but they can add personality and richness to a room.
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1 month ago | 
housebeautiful.com | Rachel Edwards
When we visited interior designer Jodie Hazlewood's flat in Nottingham last year, she was just one room shy of a full home renovation. The loft – discovered during her first viewing by peeking through a hatch in the ceiling – had been partially converted into a main bedroom, but the rest of the space was, in her words, a dumping ground. After our visit, Jodie began the final part of her renovation in earnest, documenting every step on her Instagram account, @thehouseupstairs.
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1 month ago | 
housebeautiful.com | Rachel Edwards
One of the trickiest parts of renovating is creating the home you've always dreamt of within the constraints of a budget, timeline, square footage and so on. Add further restrictions in the form of a landlord and rental agreement, and it becomes that much more difficult to make your space feel like home. This is the dilemma that faced model and photographer Trix Breuls when she moved from her native Belgium to a rented house in Margate just six months ago.
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1 month ago | 
countryliving.com | Rachel Edwards
1Sunny coloursYou can't beat cheering yellow accents to make your home feel more spring-like, but the real magic in this country bedroom is the painted woodwork that frames the space in a sunny sky blue. Even UPVC window frames can be painted – interior designer Sophie Robinson has done just that throughout her farmhouse.
