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quirky pieces of furniture. Our mix of old and new really fits Bianca’s style,” Simone says. “I would call her style brave and quite exciting, I get a real buzz out of look at Bianca’s creations, they are just amazing … I’m completely in awe watching her do what she does, how it just evolves so quickly and naturally, and the scale is always perfect, her eye for balance is perfect.” Simone has been working on cosying up her store, swapping out cooler whites and sea-tones for warmer colours like reds and oranges. Cinnamon House has recently turned five, and has grown from strength to strength since opening alongside her work designing interiors for clients’ homes, Simone says. “The interior design side of it feeds the shop and likewise the shop feeds the interior design, they both go hand in hand,” she says. “I really opened the shop because I didn’t feel like I could finish my houses, it started off as an idea to have a showroom but over the last five years it’s grown legs and turned into a really busy retail space.” Simone has loved enabling others to feel inspired by the items and displays in store. “I really like the fact that people are able to come in and look and they may never intend to buy but they may go home and find things that they have shoved in cupboards, that’s cool with me,” Simone says. Recently, she established a mancave in store, a space adorned with vintage machinery and gentlemen’s magazines from the 50s, complete with hand painted ‘poster girl’ cutouts. “It has things from their childhood that they haven’t seen for years and years … a man cave where wives can deposit bored husbands who are trying to hurry them out of the shop,” Simone says. Bianca and Simone have been working together on a range of ideas to bring warmth into the home during winter, from lighting candles during the day to careful placements of lamps to swapping cooler toned light bulbs to warm-toned bulbs. Creating cosy and inviting spaces during the winter does not have to be an entire redesign, but is a matter of starting with items already in the home and building on and rearranging them to create a new look and feel. “For me it’s layering up textures, chunky knit throws or fur, be it real or fake, things like hydes, skins and feathers,” Simone says. “Use what you have at home, bringing the outside in is always nice,” Bianca adds.
