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What The upper two floors of a converted townhouse

Where Edinburgh’s New Town

Interior design Jeffreys Interiors

Just as it is for a photographer, the foremost consideration for an interior designer is light. How much is there? Where does it fall? Is there enough? Is there too much? How does it affect the mood in a room? How can it be manipulated? Kimberley Bremner of Jeffreys Interiors was reminded of light’s crucial role when she began working on an apart ment in Edinburgh’s New Town last year.

The owners, who were relocating from Aberdeen, had come to her after seeing a property she’d designed a few years ago, in Ann Street.have felt really forced and would have jarred with the strong, almost luminous golden-orange light that streams in. I’d have been fighting with the natural light instead of working with it, and the interiors would have felt uncomfortable and claustrophobic.”

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