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Ideal Home
Ideal Home
Maxine Brady

'My home is designed to last' – 9 design tricks to steal from this colourful and modern family home

Green seating area, wooden dining table and artwork.

Emer Gillespie's house renovation has been a labour of love, and the process from start to finish required resourcefulness, creativity, and perseverance. 

Emer is the founder of lighting company Spark & Bell, and she lives with her husband Brad Guin, a product developer, their children, aged seven, and 21, and French bulldog Duke. When they first moved into a five-bedroom Victorian terraced house in Hove, East Sussex, there was work to do, but there's no doubt as to whether it was worth it.

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