A Home to Cherish

With working from home, the norm rather than the exception, you might be planning on extending your workspace because your temporary set up is ineffective. How do you move away from the dining room table to a ready-made home office, without upsetting the family? 

In this episode I speak to Claudia Griffin who started her photography business in her conservatory and now has a purpose-built studio in her garage. It’s not only given her the space to focus on her business, but it’s also provided more family time as her days are more organized and efficient. 

Setting up your effective work space will help you to feel settled, organized and productive, enabling you to produce your best work whilst balancing family life.     

Gwendoline Alderton (BIID Interior Designer)

www.ga-interiors.co.uk

Noise can be disturbing when you need to sleep, annoying when you want to relax and give you brain ached when you have to concentrate. 

In today’s session, I’ll share with you my expert tips on how to overcome those noise nuisances that are disturbing and distracting. This will help you to create a calming, relaxing and peaceful home.

Gwendoline Alderton (BIID Interior Designer)

www.ga-interiors.co.uk

This episode is an interview with Laura ‘The Wallpaper Lady’ who is a designer, interior stylist, and blogger for Laura Felicity Design. Laura initially started making bespoke wallpaper and her range has now successfully expanded into fabric, roller blinds, and home accessories. 

She began her pattern design business from her parent’s garage, then created a home office, in the guest bedroom of her new home, and is currently excited about sharing a creative studio space.

One of the main challenges for Laura is managing energy levels and for this, we talk about how to set smaller achievements to reach your bigger goals. In this episode you’ll discover how she’s managed to grow her brand whilst maintaining a healthy lifestyle with Bailey, ‘The Loudest Slurping Dog’.

Gwendoline Alderton: www.ga-interiors.co.uk 

Laura Milligan: www.laurafelicity.co.uk

This is an interview with Fintech expert Peter Seymour who works from his garden shed. Actually, it’s a very glamorous and bespoke cedar-clad building that’s lovingly nestled in his garden.

When Peter first started working from home, he was confined to an attic space but it wasn’t effective because there was too much noise and disruptions. He needed a separate space.

Working from home allowed him to think about what was the right space, which evolved into his stylish and practical garden office. He now goes to work, winding his way through the garden and passing the home-grown tomatoes, to a space that’s light, bright, quiet and attractive with minimum disruptions. Work commitments are separated from his personal space so that he can work effectively whilst enjoying all the delights of the garden and having his family nearby.

Gwendoline Alderton: www.ga-interiors.co.uk

Peter Seymour: https://www.linkedin.com/in/peter-seymour-bbb5b8/

This episode is an interview with artist, author and filmmaker Lou Hamilton, at her home on an island in London. We discuss her artistic journey and how her home and workspace has changed to accommodate her evolving creativity.

Working from home is more than having a desk, a laptop and a cup of vegan hot chocolate. Lou has cleverly divided her apartment into areas that are restful and calming for her writing, with spacious and energizing areas for painting. 

But it’s still a family home with her new puppy, Millie, tearing around the place, so we talk about the compromise with her love for open space and her need for good storage to hide away all her paints and creative clutter. It’s an effective space that enables Lou to be productive and produce her best work. 

Lou has created a light-filled, spacious and practical home that feeds her creativity and nurtures her family.

Gwendoline Alderton: www.ga-interiors.co.uk 

Lou Hamilton: www.createlab.co.uk

In this episode, I’ll share with you my journey into interior design, that includes the happiest and saddest time of my life with my emotions torn apart. Instead of going to Lancashire to see my father, my husband was driving me straight to hospital. 

Opportunities aren’t always obvious and they don’t always happen when life is wonderful, but they often create a monumental change in direction.

Sometimes, to find your way you have to firstly become lost. You have to be at a point of exhaustion so that your inner voice can surface and you’re open to opportunities no matter how random they might appear.  

It was the start of my journey to a new career as an interior designer. I was on a path to something new and exciting, the creative spark that I’d been searching for. 

www.ga-interiors.co.uk

70% of people globally, work from the comfort of home at least one day a week. Although it’s rewarding being able to work when you want and how you want, in reality, it’s one of the most stressful challenges, often leading to arguments and relationship problems as work squirrels into the heart of your home and disrupts your life. How do you successfully separate work commitments from family lifestyle? 

In this podcast, Gwendoline will share with you how to create a stylish, organized and practical space in your home with realistic work boundaries. She’ll help you understand the three different types of boundaries and how they help you create an effective office space that balances with your lifestyle. This will help to bring family harmony whilst creating an organized and stylish home where you can work productively.

Setting realistic work boundaries will enable you to enjoy the comfort of your home and work at your best. 

www.ga-interiors.co.uk

www.pinerest.com/gainteriors/office-storage