‘A rental needn’t BE A BLAND BOX’

I was born in Palestine and my family moved to Scotland, as refugees, when I was two years old,’ says Salsabil.

‘When I left school, I chose to study interior design in Syria, at a university near Damascus. I lived there for three years, just before the war broke out. It was a truly amazing place. I came home when I graduated, Abdullah and I got married, and I worked for Homebase for a number of years as an in-house interior design consultant, which I really enjoyed. When our son, Adam, was born, I set up my