November 2021

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Editor Karen Walker Associate Editor Jo Messenger Art Director Emma Shuffield Chief Sub Editor Emily Hawkes Digital Content Editor Victoria Purcell Content Producer Paisley-Rose Tedder Sales Director Conor Tallon Sales Manager Lindsay Hudson Assistan
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Welcome
This month is a very exciting one for the Good Homes team; not only is Ideal Home Show Christmas celebrating its 10th birthday at Olympia London (24-28 November), but we also get to reveal our trend-led festive roomsets to inspire your best-ever Chri
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Cosy Up For AUTUMN
Trend watch Just landed… For a fresh take on Mid-century styling, Hillarys has teamed up with textile designer, weaver and artist Margo Selby to create a beautiful new collection of curtain and blind fabrics. With six graphic geometric patterns to ch
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Create A Warm WELCOME
Seasonal project It’s never too soon to start thinking about Christmas! So why not get a head start by making your advent calendar now, ready to fill with festive treats over the coming weeks. Cut out stocking shapes from fabric or hessian, then glue
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Bonfire NIGHT
love! 3 of the best… Fun day out Turning the idea of a house tour on its head – literally! – the new Upside Down House experiences feature topsy-turvy homes where you feel as if you’re walking on the ceiling. Great for fun photo opportunities, you’ll
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5 Minutes With…
After struggling to find door furniture she loved while renovating her own home, former fashion designer Rebecca O’Keefe sketched a whimsical frog knocker that was to spark the idea for Gipsy Hill Hardware. Five years on, Rebecca works with UK foundr
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Style spotter Japandi
This sleek interior trend fuses Japanese and Scandinavian aesthetics to create a look that’s minimal and functional yet warm and comforting, thanks to its use of natural materials. Simply team with a muted colour palette and organic forms for a seren
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Colour Palette Midnight Blue
love! From bold fuchsia to paler pastels, almost any shade of pink complements dark blue, but one that works particularly well is a yellow-toned blush or salmon. Graham & Brown’s August, £42 per 2.5 litres of matt emulsion, is perfect for adding a po
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Manhattan Chic
Transform an island unit into a quirky bar area with slatted wood panelling, a decorative worktop and a row of retro-style bar stools. Swap wall units for open shelving against a backdrop of classic metro tiles, finishing with decorative pendant ligh
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2021’s Christmas Trends Revealed At GoodHomes ROOMSETS
This year, our style team has created four gorgeous schemes featuring the latest looks for homeware, and showcasing the season’s on-trend colours and festive decorations to give your home a magical feel. Good Homes contributing style editor Jessica T
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Your Free Weekday Ticket To… Ideal Home Show Christmas
Packed with everything you need to prepare your home for its best-ever festive period, Ideal Home Show Christmas is back at Olympia London from 24-28 November. This annual shopping event brings you the latest seasonal ideas – ranging from on-trend de
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Head To…
Whether WFH or flexi-working for the foreseeable, give a small home office a revamp with a fresh lick of paint and some on-trend shelving units like these copper brackets from Rothley. Alongside a few pale pink accessories and well-chosen plants, the
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‘We Transformed Our House In Two Phases’
A good location and more space were key factors when Naomi and Ben Horner were looking for a new home for themselves and Ben’s two children, Jessie and Henry – and, eventually, the perfect house came onto the market. ‘We had been searching for a bigg
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‘We’ve Picked Up DIY Skills Along The Way’
Kim Hallett, a business executive for an aircraft company, lives here with husband Graham, who works in IT. They have two grown-up daughters, Hayley and Stacey, who live away from home A three-bedroom cottage in rural Wiltshire 2015 We genuinely didn
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‘It Was Stressful But Worth It’
Having moved from East London to Southend in Essex, where they could afford to renovate a period house after their second daughter was born, it was seven years before Carla Harris and husband Elliot sold up again, moving 20 minutes away to Hockley. T
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Autumn Comforts
Midweek meal • Olive oil• 8 chicken thighs (either skinless and deboned or with bones and skin on)• 1 yellow pepper, deseeded and sliced• 1 red pepper, deseeded and sliced• 1 red onion, chopped• 2 red chillies, finely chopped• 10 cherry tomatoes, hal
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5 Simple Steps To… Flooring
From cosy carpet and warming wood to easy-clean tiles, flooring is an investment that can make a big impact on how your home looks and feels. So whatever your lifestyle or interior scheme, follow our top tips to help you make a considered choice unde
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Coming Next Month
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Classic Carpet
Two of the most popular natural flooring choices, hardwearing sisal and seagrass both have a slightly rough feel underfoot and come in a spectrum of neutral shades. However, they can stain, so be mindful where you decide to use them. There are four m
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Stylish Tiles
There’s nothing to say your tiles have to stay purely underfoot, so use a design that’s made for both walls and floors for the ultimate wow-factor scheme. For extra interest, use a hexagon shape as shown here to create a striking cut-away effect. Sun
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On-trend Hard Flooring
If your layout is open plan, use your flooring materials to zone different areas. Here, dark tiles create a practical option in the kitchen, while engineered wood flooring adds warmth to the rest of the space. LayRed Midland Oak 22821 luxury vinyl fl
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‘We’ve Given The Space Character’
CAN YOU TELL US ABOUT YOUR PREVIOUS KITCHEN? A lot of people thought we were mad to be replacing a perfectly good kitchen after only using it for 18 months, but the ultra-modern, new-build style just wasn’t right for us, and we always planned on chan
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7 Of The Best VACUUM CLEANERS
Five-stage filtration, ideal for allergy sufferers DUST DETECTION Using a laser to reveal particles invisible to the eye, Dyson’s V15 Detect also has acoustic dust-sensing that increases suction when needed £599 Visit goodhomesmagazine.com for our fu
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‘Our Bold Scheme Feels Calming’
WHAT WAS THE BATHROOM LIKE BEFORE? We started out renting our four-bedroom maisonette from my dad’s partner, but as it had previously been a student rental, all the rooms were pretty rundown. The bathroom was a battleship grey, like a prison, but we
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7 Of The Best *WINDOW IDEAS
For a classic or contemporary feel, California Shutters has a great selection in wood, PVC or a mix of the two From £168 per sqm Enhance a traditional scheme with a blind in Fable & Cedar’s Midnight Meadow cotton fabric in Cornflower £65 per m The Sp
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Real Steel
Q HOW DID YOU WANT TO CHANGE THE HOUSE? We bought the property at auction as we were looking for a project, and it was pretty rundown, with a tiny kitchen and overgrown garden. Alice needed a home office, and we wanted a more open-plan layout on the
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Where To Buy
247 Blinds 01484 443790; 247blinds.co.uk Abingdon Flooring 01274 655694; abingdonflooring.co.uk Abode Living 01273 621116; abodeliving.co.uk Abstract House 020 8099 9243; abstracthouse.com Alpha Team Flat Roofing 01245 520530; alphateamflatroofing.co
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3 Accounts To Follow On… INSTAGRAM
@lucky __ no. 13 Hannah and partner Steve have drawn on their visual and design backgrounds to experiment and express their love of interiors since moving into their first home a year ago. Teaming elements of Scandi, boho and farmhouse style with a c
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Sustainable Approach
We are facing a challenge. Climate change demands that we adapt many of our habits to live more sustainably, while at the same time the financial and environmental costs of heating our homes increases every year. The government’s response is the prop
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Tips For Success
● Radiators will need an increased surface area to be compatible with the low flow temperatures of an ASHP. Effectively, you are changing the emitters from a radiant heat to a convective heat (turn to page 18 for a selection of suitable designs). UFH
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A Cosy Atmosphere
Powered by electricity, an air-source heat pump (ASHP) extracts warmth from the air, and increases the temperature to supply a home’s heating and hot water. ASHPs come in two types – air to air and air to water. The latter is more common in the UK an
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Seeking Further Advice
● The Energy Saving Trust gives impartial advice on renewables, insulation and efficiency. (energysavingtrust.org.uk) ● The Glass and Glazing Federation has a spin-off website, myglazing.com, with advice and an energy-saving calculator. (ggf.org.uk)
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Temperature Control
Whether you’re updating a heating system or adding a new one to a self-build or extension, there’s an array of radiators in increasingly inventive styles, colour and materials. Getting the right heat output for the space is vital. Radiators come with
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Warmed By The Earth
Two metres below ground, the soil maintains a fairly consistent temperature of around 10ºC and is unaffected by cold weather. Powered by electricity, a ground-source heat pump (GSHP) extracts warmth from the earth using collecting pipes buried below
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Breathe Easy
Mechanical ventilation with heat recovery (MVHR) draws stale air out of each room at an extraction point. The air is passed through ducting to a heat exchanger and expelled outside. The extracted warmth is transferred via the exchanger to fresh air f
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Focus On Woodburners
Whether you’re after a contemporary design for an open-plan space or a traditional model for a cosy living room, woodburners have eco credentials that open fires can’t match. From January 2022, all new woodburning and multifuel stoves must meet Ecode

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