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Essential questions before taking the plunge into downsizing
When downsizing, and beginning the search for your ideal apartment or townhouse, what starts out being an exciting exercise often ends up being confusing and demoralising. This potentially difficult and emotional time can be further exacerbated if you’re not clear about what your expectations are and what will be the deal breakers for you. For…
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As much as I love sourcing mid-century furniture for my clients I know some have been reluctant to purchase dining tables. This is largely due to their tendency to mark so easily, due to ‘water staining’, created from wet glasses or dinner plates. It was terrific to learn from Paul Ternent last week, owner of…
Creating the essential ‘luxury feeling’ of a main bedroom
With many of our downsizing clients they relish the opportunity to finally clear out the clutter in their lives, and to identify which of their belongings are truly important. The next step then is to create the home of their dreams minus the constraints imposed from having children or elderly parents living with them. Clients…
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Lucie Rie was an Austrian-born British potter, born in 1902. Rie moved to London to flee Nazi Austria. Best remembered for her brightly coloured, delicate vase, bottle and bowl Modernist forms. Key developments in Rie’s career, include creating glazes with flowing or volcanic textures, as well as combining coloured clays before throwing to produce upward…
The final questions you need to ask yourself before downsizing
In our final newsletter for the year I’d like to finish the five key questions you need to ask yourself before downsizing… Are you planning to repurpose existing furniture or buy new? We’ve had so many clients who are attached to favourite sofas, armchairs or even tables. Aside from the fabulous variety…
Home Office Tips
Comfortable and ergonomic chair to work in, as well as good sized desk for laptop and screens if required…making sure that both of these are beautiful as well as being functional, which will immediately motivate you to sit and use the space! Access to power points so you can set up a small printer, shredder…