There’s more to cleaning a carpet than just a once over with the vacuum cleaner. Every so often you need to give then a deep clean, and with Christmas fast approaching, it’s time to call in the professionals. Our carpets have to cope with a lot – mud, food, pet hair and worse! Nothing that…
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For a new generation of creators and consumers alike, the pandemic was a chance to break away and begin again. And one such COVID entrepreneur is Susan Cameron, founder of Echo Beach Designs. The year 2020 began badly for Susan Cameron – having come to the end of her fixed-contract as a project manager at…
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Setting a budget is an important part of any home renovation project. Good planning and working out your home renovation costs are essential. Budgets are a really helpful decision-making tool that can help you avoid unexpected costs and under or over investing. Over the next few issues the team at Forever Spaces tell us how…
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As autumn approaches and we begin to spend more time indoors, take time to make sure your home is comfortable and clean. Morag Readman, owner of the East Lothian franchise of Bright & Beautiful shares her top tips. Keep dust and cobwebs under control Spiders take up residence indoors too, so extra time is needed…
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It was Emma’s unusual up-bringing, which inspired her to become an interior designer. As a child she lived in a large home in Bruntsfield, where her mother was the live-in nanny and they had the annex flat adjoined to the main house. A large Georgian villa which needed a lot of work, Emma spent her…
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Crafting is officially cool. Knitting, embroidery, sewing and a host of other crafts have cast of their unglamorous image and are enjoying a boom thanks to television shows such as The Great British Sewing Bee. And for Rosie Creyke, who started sewing on a vintage Singer sewing machine when she was eight-years-old, this rise in…
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… yet sadly, chores still need be done and our homes still need to be looked after. Morag Readman, owner of the East Lothian franchise of Bright & Beautiful shares her top tips. As our homes continue to be multi-functional spaces, many of us have added home office or entertainment features to our gardens and…
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Shaker kitchens never date and look wonderful in both contemporary and traditional homes. Forever Spaces tell us how to get your Shaker style kitchen right. FOREVER SPACES1-2 Church Street, Haddington EH41 3EXt: 01620 825808 | e: info@foreverspaces.co.ukforeverspaces.co.uk
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Hayley Flangan asks when is Scandi not minimalist? Rediscovering podcasts, I recently listened to ‘The Great Indoors’ an interior design series by Sophie Robson off the telly and Kate Watson-Smyth of ‘Mad About the House’ fame. In one episode they actually said that Scandi minimalism is dead. I had to rewind and check I’d heard…
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