Fresh Traditions Venn Diagram

The Venn of Interior Design

There is a fairytale scenario where your interior design project comes in well under budget, super fast…. and is of amazing quality. Now as much as I love a good fairytale, I have to tell you that without some major alignment of constellations and a whole lot of luck, this one doesn’t have a happy…

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Colour palette

Spring Refresh – hold that tester pot, read this first!

Sustainable Change It’s that time of year – when colour charts and tester pots pop into our lives like spring bulbs and our Instagram / Pinterest feeds are filling up with ‘fresh new kitchen ideas’ and the like. It’s also when DIY stores and garden centres typically report their biggest profits as our urge for…

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Guest room

A Stress-free Guest Room this Christmas

The perfect guest room Are you having guests to stay this Christmas? Here are a few tips for creating or preparing a guest room, in a sustainable way whilst keeping your stress levels down! There’s something about Christmas that brings out the perfectionist in many of us, coupled with an urge to finish things. Having…

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De-cluttering clothes

The grey sweater – towards a more sustainable home

The Seasonal Switch At the weekend I undertook my twice annual clothes switch, or review and de-clutter. Somewhere in late spring and early autumn each year I remove all the most seasonal items from my wardrobe for the season just gone and do some de-cluttering. I am trying to buy fewer clothes to be more…

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House

Lessons from an Old House

My husband and I fell in love with an Edwardian house 18 years ago. It was built over 100 years ago – like about 20% of the UK’s housing stock. In fact less that 18% of the UK’s homes were actually built after 1990, so there are a lot of older houses around. Over the…

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Window seat

Bringing the magic to your home

As a child I read a lot – and I mean a lot. The places people lived in those books ranged from normal houses to castles, homes by the sea or boarding schools, amongst others. And in these diverse dwellings there seemed to be a liberal sprinkling of window seats. It was where you curled…

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