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FAQ! The stuff people ask us.
Every time I mention I am an interior designer, this is met with curiosity and, occasionally, puzzlement. What DOES an interior designer do? Broadly speaking, an interior designer concern themselves with the interior of buildings, but there will be a wide variety of things we do – and don’t do! Here are some of the…
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Three designer tips to help you sell your house
There comes a day when your house just isn’t what it used to be. Maybe your family has outgrown the space. Maybe the children have flown the nest and the house is now too big. Maybe it is just not where you want to be anymore. It doesn’t matter the reason, sometimes we have to…
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Building a garden studio: how to start
Disclaimer: this is not a set of instructions. This is more of a diary of how I am going to set about building my very own garden studio. Ever since we bought this house, we had a garden room planned. At first, it was meant as teenager hideaway, as we had work space inside the…
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The rebel guide to orchid care
I have three orchids that keep flowering and flowering and flowering. They are supermarket orchids so nothing special, but every year I get loads of comments on them – so I thought I could give you some tips on how I take care of them. It might sound dramatic calling my method “rebel” – but…
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5 tips to set up your home office
Hi everyone – can I tell you a secret? Once upon a time, I had a blog about architecture and interiors. And in that blog, I wrote several articles that are still relevant – but they are all in Portuguese 🙈 as it happens, one of the posts I wrote nearly eight years ago was…
