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Shop your home

With living costs soaring, décor trends being replaced by looks with longevity, and a growing insistence on sustainability and craftsmanship, how are we meant to get our interiors fix? Thankfully, the demand for fast home fashion seems to have slowed, but that doesn’t mean we don’t still crave new, quick and easy restyles for our rooms.

Enter ‘shop your home’, a concept that has been on the radars of designers and declutterers for years, but now seems even more appealing, and topical, than ever before.

‘Shopping your home is a way of refreshing your spaces by restyling with the items you already own,’ says art director and designer Emily Hensen, author of the new book,. ‘I started talking about it in the first lockdown of 2020, making a video for Instagram to help people breathe new life into the same rooms

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