Homes & Interiors Scotland

The sea of tranquillity

Have you ever stayed in a seaside holiday cottage? Was it done out in jaunty blue and white stripes, and dotted with storm lanterns, shells and driftwood? That's an easy, understandable approach to decorating a beachside home, instantly conjuring up sea breezes and sunlit days by the shore. But for a professional like Kimberley Bremner at Jeffreys Interiors, there are more sophisticated ways to convey the idea that you've escaped the daily grind. “Absolutely not!” she laughs when asked if she was ever tempted to give this house in Gourock a hint of nautical styling. “No seagulls, no fish. If the clients had even attempted to sneak any of that in, they'd have been dumped!”

She is joking, of course. She has become very good friends with her clients, a couple with a young family, ever since they commissioned her to

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