The thing about being an Interior Designer is that you can fall in love with a house, it gets under your skin and “Bam!” it has you. When I first stepped into this stunning Arts and Crafts property in Sevenoaks, despite it being a building site at the time, I was completely smitten.
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“Kids, they grow up so fast!” This is a phrase that gets said to you so often when you have children that when you’re getting on with the day-to-day of raising them it can become very annoying indeed. However, the saying is true and before you know it that small bundle you were handed in the hospital is a strapping, very witting and slightly sulky tweenager, that ever-fun stage that sits between being a child and a fully-fledged teenager. I have one of those!
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It was a chilly February day in 2014 when I first met Ruth and Giles at their newly purchased Grade II listed house in Battle, East Sussex. They had purchased it as a holiday home where they could spend time relaxing and entertaining loved ones and had big dreams for the look and feel of the space. On this cold winter day, the house was still empty, slightly chilly, and in need of some TLC both structurally and decoratively. Both Ruth and Giles had a vision for how they wanted their new weekend retreat to look, and as soon as they started to tell me their plans, I couldn’t wait to work with them. We were going to take this house, so full of history, and take it on the next leg of its journey!
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Last summer, I was really lucky to be approached by Naylor Accountancy, an accountancy firm based in Tunbridge Wells, to work with them to design their new office. The company had outgrown their current premises, but it wasn’t just a larger space to fit their expanding team that that they wanted, they wanted a fresh space that reflected the dynamic personalities of their staff and reinforced their company’s slick operation. They wanted an office that would wow their clients when they visited and a space their staff was delighted to walk into every single day. Owner Nikolai Naylor was able to see the power that a well-designed office space would bring to the Naylor brand straight-away and I jumped at the chance to work with him and make his design dreams a reality.
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