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2 days ago | 
msn.com | Rachel Edwards
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2 days 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.
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1 week 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.
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2 weeks 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.
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3 weeks 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 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.
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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.
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1 month 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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1 month 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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1 month ago | 
msn.com | Rachel Edwards
Microsoft Cares About Your PrivacyMicrosoft and our third-party vendors use cookies to store and access information such as unique IDs to deliver, maintain and improve our services and ads. If you agree, MSN and Microsoft Bing will personalise the content and ads that you see. You can select ‘I Accept’ to consent to these uses or click on ‘Manage preferences’ to review your options and exercise your right to object to Legitimate Interest where used.
