The Curated Nest Podcast

In this episode:

• The challenge of designing for different kinds of building

• The joy of finally benign able to create your dream kitchen

• Art that connects you to happy memories

• The emotion connected to your happy place

• How to create a mood board to steer your design

01:39 Tell us a little more about yourself

07:13 What is your favourite thing about your home?

10:01 What turned it from a house into a home?

11:23 What's your favourite room?

15:45 Do you have a favourite piece of art/fav accessory in your home?

17:26 Where is your happy place?

21:15 What would your dream home be like? Setting, rooms, garden…

23:52 Quick Fire

29:26 Interior Design Advice

Lorraine owns Willow & Maine, a North East-based interior design and styling consultancy covering Newcastle, Northumberland, County Durham, Teesside, and Tyne and Wear. They offer bespoke interior design and styling solutions for every size of project, with packages to suit all budgets.

Born out of a long-standing passion for all things Interior Design, they are now based in Axwell Park, Blaydon but started in Ryton, a village on the border of Newcastle and Northumberland. The name is a combination of ‘the Willows’, a nature reserve in Lorraine’s village on the banks of the River Tyne, and ’Maine’ was chosen to reflect the classic New England decor she loves so much.

She’s even curated a new online Lifestyle store, bringing together some of her favourite products to share with you. It’s an extension of Lorraine’s interior design passion, offering a range of curated accessories and finishing touches for your home. Think candles, cushions and lots more.

Lorraine has managed projects from Wynyard up to Bamburgh and everywhere in between, including an Airbnb in Alnmouth, a cricketer’s Grade 2 listed cottage, a new build at Wynyard and a Lodge outside of Hexham which was completed for Jessica’s Sarcoma awareness.

Every project Lorraine works on is different, and she gets as excited about the project as the client does. She loves bringing clients' ideas to life and turning houses into homes.

Connect with your host, Heather Moore

Website: www.heathermoorefineart.co.uk Instagram: @heather_moore_fine_art Pinterest Heather Moore Fine Art

YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@heathermoorefineart

Plus get more inspiration for your interiors in my FREE downloadable quarterly magazine - The Curated Nest. Get it here: https://heather-moore-fine-art.kit.com 

Connect with Lorraine: Instagram: www.instagram.com/willowandmaine 
Website: ⁠Lifestyle store⁠

Recommended Author: Jeffrey Alan Marks

In this episode:

• The joy of owning a home that you can finally decorate your way

• A love affair with yellow

• Buying second hand and being part of a piece’s story

• The importance of communal space

• Compromising and/or convincing your partner your scheme will work (powerpoints at the ready)

• The difficulty of creating small spaces

00:53 Tell us a little more about yourself

08:45 What is your favourite thing about your home?

18:17 What turned it from a house into a home?

22:20 What's your favourite room?

25:04 Do you have a favourite piece of art/fav accessory in your home?

33:46 Where is your happy place?

37:03 What would your dream home be like? Setting, rooms, garden…

42:49 Quick Fire

28:25 Advice for transforming your home

Joanne James has a passion for colour, second-hand finds and creating a home full of personality, warmth and interest. After years of living in military accommodation, Joanne and her family finally bought their first home - a joyful mix of colour, character and vintage treasures, with their beautiful yellow kitchen at the heart of it all.

Joanne’s Instagram grid, @hap_hazzard_mrsj, is a wonderful source of joy and inspiration - a real pick me up!

Also - the candle business that I forgot was Hot Wax based in Newcastle!

Connect with your host, Heather Moore

Website: www.heathermoorefineart.co.uk Instagram: @heather_moore_fine_art Pinterest Heather Moore Fine Art

YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@heathermoorefineart

Plus get more inspiration for your interiors in my FREE downloadable quarterly magazine - The Curated Nest. Get it here: https://heather-moore-fine-art.kit.com 
Connect with Joanne: Instagram: @hap_hazzard_mrsj

In this episode:

• The flexibility of working from home

• The kitchen being the heart of the home and a place that Kerry gravitates towards with family

• The importance of a designated working area

• Understand how best to organise a space as you live with it

• Finding art that you connect with and cherish

01:12 Tell us a little more about yourself

07:39 What is your favourite thing about your home? 

12:14 What turned it from a house into a home?

14:42 Do you have a favourite piece of art/fav accessory in your home?

18:23 What's your favourite room?

22:56 Where is your happy place?

29:48 What would your dream home be like? Setting, rooms, garden…

35:55 Quick Fire

Kerry Dick is the founder of Write Junction - a freelance copywriter for brands with a visual soul.  Lots of copywriters often come from journalism or English language backgrounds. They understand words in text. Kerry thinks in colour, space, texture, mood, and visual narrative. Perhaps that's rare, but with her background, it comes from her creative heartbeat. With a BA (hons) degree in textiles & surface design, and her retail background this brings even more to her copywriting skills.

In her retail Visual Merchandiser days, she sold things without saying a word. Making connections and communications from visual, verbal and written formats is a passion of hers. She still helps make those all-important connections, focussing on written content.

There's something super special when she gets to work with brands with the following industries:

- fashion & lifestyle brands

- interiors, homeware & craft

- beauty and wellness

-luxury goods

- retail & e-commerce

- brand identity & tone of voice development work.

She'll write about (almost) anything but she loves her creative heartbeat.

Connect with your host, Heather Moore:

Website: www.heathermoorefineart.co.uk

Instagram: @heather_moore_fine_art

Pinterest Heather Moore Fine Art

YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@heathermoorefineart

Plus get more inspiration for your interiors in my FREE downloadable quarterly magazine - The Curated Nest. Get it here: https://heather-moore-fine-art.kit.com 

Connect with Kerry: 

Linkedin:https://www.linkedin.com/in/kerry-dick/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/writejunctionwrite?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet&stkn=ZDNlZDc0MzIxNw==

In this episode:

• Your heart being your home

• The importance of sensory cues to feel safe, cosy and at home with yourself.

• Reawakening instinct in midlife - diving for light

• Should-ing

• Rest being foundational and how your home supports that

01:23 Tell us a little more about yourself

11:16 What is your favourite thing about your home? What turned it from a house into a home?

22:35 What's your favourite room?

31:32 Do you have a favourite piece of art/fav accessory in your home?

40:22 Where is your happy place?

45:07 What would your dream home be like?

49:09 Quick Fire

Meet Christina Lord, founder of Authentic Action Coaching. At her core, Christina is deeply passionate about helping women reconnect with who they truly are.

Her favourite question to ask is: “Who were you before the world told you who to be?”

After years spent navigating fast-paced corporate environments, recovering from her own burnout, Christina realised she needed something entirely different. She retrained in Energy Leadership Coaching while living in Arkansas, USA, before returning home to Sunderland to care for her Dad - a chapter of her life that deeply grounded her and redefined what truly matters.

Today, through her F.U.E.L Yourself 1st model, Christina helps women move away from chasing goals that aren't theirs and discover their own formula for pure personal fulfillment. She blends growth mindset principles with embodied resilience practices like breathwork to help people regulate their nervous systems and master stress - so they can create a true sense of peace and feel genuinely at home within themselves.

Connect with your host, Heather Moore

Website: www.heathermoorefineart.co.uk

Instagram: @heather_moore_fine_art

Pinterest Heather Moore Fine Art

YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@heathermoorefineart

Plus get more inspiration for your interiors in my FREE downloadable quarterly magazine - The Curated Nest. Get it here: https://heather-moore-fine-art.kit.com 

Connect with Christina: 

Website: ⁠https://www.authenticactioncoaching.com/⁠Linkedin: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/christina-lord-cpc-authentic-action/⁠

Instagram: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/authentic_action_coach/⁠YouTube: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpErMO-BNB-sXlIr9YLE32g⁠

Free resources for listeners: Free breathing practices to shift stress in minutes: ⁠https://www.authenticactioncoaching.com/breath-work-3⁠

Free Stress-Score Quiz: ⁠https://christina-j9ubbamm.scoreapp.com/⁠

Free Sample Session: ⁠https://lnkd.in/eZkx8bkT⁠

In this episode:

• The variety of ways that hotels make us feel at home

• Celebrating experiences through decor

• How homes and people adapt to life’s changes

• The contentedness of loving where you live

04:42 Tell us a little more about yourself

13:59 What is your favourite thing about your home? What turned it from a house into a home?

20:46 What's your favourite room?

24:48 Do you have a favourite piece of art/fav accessory in your home?

38:33 Where is your happy place?

49:09 What would your dream home be like? Setting, rooms, garden…

51:35 Quick Fire

Ashleigh Donald is Co-Founder of Halo Business Consulting, the award-winning hospitality marketing and customer experience consultancy that helps hotel owners, operators and teams bring their brand promise to life, strengthen loyalty, and drive sustained growth. She is also co-host of The Halo Effect: Hospitality Stories with Ashleigh & Michael Donald, a weekly podcast sharing real stories and practical insight from hospitality and travel leaders.

With more than two decades in senior Marketing and Communications leadership, Ashleigh has supported international hotel and real estate businesses across strategy, digital marketing, launches, repositioning and rebrands, working with brands including Shangri-La, The Luxury Collection, Hilton, Four Seasons, Montcalm Collection, Resident Hotels, Kew Green Hotels and Hudson Yards. Ashleigh was recognised as a winner at the 2025 Great British Businesswoman Awards. She also contributes to the sector as a Entrepreneur in Residence with Sheffield Hallam University Business School and mentoring through The Girls’ Network

Connect with your host, Heather Moore

Website: www.heathermoorefineart.co.uk Instagram: @heather_moore_fine_art Pinterest Heather Moore Fine Art

YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@heathermoorefineart

Plus get more inspiration for your interiors in my FREE downloadable quarterly magazine - The Curated Nest. Get it here: https://heather-moore-fine-art.kit.com 

Connect with Ashleigh

Instagram https://www.instagram.com/haloitsashleigh/

Linkedin https://uk.linkedin.com/in/ashleighdonald

Website GoHalo.co.uk

In this episode:

• The importance of pieces that are durable

• Screen free dining room time

• Zoning for personal space for each family member

• Some of the mistakes people make with Pinterest

• How mock ups and mood boards help clients understand the vision

• Why Leann doesn’t follow trends

01:00 Tell us a little more about yourself

07:26 What is your favourite thing about your home?

10:00 What turned it from a house into a home?

25:36 Do you have a favourite piece of art/fav accessory in your home?

27:32 What's your favourite room?

30:41 Where is your happy place?

34:49 What would your dream home be like? Setting, rooms, garden…

38:19 Quick Fire

Leann is an interior designer who believes that great design isn’t just about how a space looks, it’s about how it supports the way you live every day. She works with clients to create homes that feel intentional, functional, and deeply personal, whether that means rethinking a layout, refining finishes, or bringing clarity to a renovation that feels overwhelming.

Her approach is collaborative, thoughtful, and grounded in the idea that our environments shape our habits, our energy, and ultimately our quality of life.

Connect with your host, Heather Moore

Website: www.heathermoorefineart.co.uk Instagram: @heather_moore_fine_art Pinterest Heather Moore Fine Art

YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@heathermoorefineart

Plus get more inspiration for your interiors in my FREE downloadable quarterly magazine - The Curated Nest. Get it here: https://heather-moore-fine-art.kit.com 

Connect with Leann

Website: www.Brooklyninteriors.co.uk

Email: [email protected]
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/people/Brooklyn-Interiors/100063532178267/?locale=en_GB

In this episode:

How illness and recovery change you

Treatment Update: The nephrostomy drain and leg bag are gone, Richard only has only 2 more chemo sessions to go and most of all he has a van! (This makes sense when you’ve listened 😊)

02:04 Tell us a little more about yourself

06:24 What is your favourite thing about your home?

09:35 What turned it from a house into a home?

17:30 Do you have a favourite piece of art/fav accessory in your home?

20:04 What's your favourite room?

23:25 Where is your happy place?

47:40 What would your dream home be like?

48:20 Quick Fire

The Curated Nest is very happy to participate in this 4th edition of Podcasthon! For one week, thousands of podcasts will highlight a charity of their choice. And today, I have the pleasure of supporting Prostate Cancer UK.

This episode is a personal one as I welcome along a man who has played a big role in my life. He’s been in my life for around 25 years and has inspired and motivated me and occasionally told me off. He’s picked daffodils for a class project at 10pm, run a farm for his whole adult life and created a YouTube channel for his passion project, Military Mad - sharing his extensive collection of militaria with the online world.

This week I welcome my step dad Richard as we talk about home in the context of the challenges of battling prostate cancer and the highs and lows that come with that.

And that wraps up this special episode, as part of Podcasthon. If you enjoyed it, feel free to visit www.podcasthon.org to discover many other charities through the voices and talents of amazing podcasters!

Connect with your host, Heather Moore

Website: www.heathermoorefineart.co.uk Instagram: @heather_moore_fine_art Pinterest Heather Moore Fine Art

YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@heathermoorefineart

Plus get more inspiration for your interiors in my FREE downloadable quarterly magazine - The Curated Nest. Get it here: https://heather-moore-fine-art.kit.com 

Connect with Richard

Richard on YouTube: www.youtube.com/@militarymad2840

Song, Wonderful Grace: https://youtu.be/kdugliaCXUk?si=VgE8nMxfVA1ptPJY 

Signs Unlimited: https://www.signsunlimitedwarrington.co.uk/

Connect with Prostate Cancer UK 

Prostate Cancer UK: https://prostatecanceruk.org

01:50 Tell us a little more about yourself

04:26 What is your favourite thing about your home?

11:19 What turned it from a house into a home?

19:35 Do you have a favourite piece of art/fav accessory in your home?

24:53 What's your favourite room?

27:44 Where is your happy place?

35:59 What would your dream home be like? Setting, rooms, garden…

38:31 Quick Fire

In this episode:

• How making mistakes helps you finetune your instincts

• Mixing bought, found and heirloom pieces

• Being bold with wallpaper

• The importance of shared spaces to bring family together

Dee is a stay-at-home mum to three boys and lives in North Wales in a 1950s art deco-inspired home with stunning coastal views.  She has a degree in Business Management and spent 22 years working in administration, office management and finance in the private sector and in social services and education and latterly in an online battery business owned by herself and her husband.

Interior design and decorating have always been her passion. She’s spent many enjoyable years personalising every home she’s lived in.  Her current home, which they moved into in 2016, has been a work in progress ever since.  The previous owner remodelled and extended it in 2009, leaving a quirky mix of old and new.  It was the perfect blank canvas for her to create my own style.

After selling her business in 2025, she completely gave up her office job and now has more time for her hobbies and passions.  Interior design remains a favourite, and she’s recently taken up gardening, particularly growing my own vegetables.  Walking is another joy, especially in the beautiful North Wales.

Connect with your host, Heather Moore

Website: www.heathermoorefineart.co.uk Instagram: @heather_moore_fine_art Pinterest Heather Moore Fine Art

YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@heathermoorefineart

Plus get more inspiration for your interiors in my FREE downloadable quarterly magazine - The Curated Nest. Get it here: https://heather-moore-fine-art.kit.com 

Connect with Dee

Instagram: www.instagram.com/maric_living

00:51 Tell us a little more about yourself (Please keep this to around 2 minutes)

05:24 What is your favourite thing about your home?

12:00 What turned it from a house into a home?

15:26 Do you have a favourite piece of art/fav accessory in your home?

18:02 What's your favourite room?

25:21 Where is your happy place?

30:02 What would your dream home be like? Setting, rooms, garden…

38:26 Quick Fire

In this episode:

• Wanting to see the problems with a home before working with you

• The difference between creating a home and staging to sell.

• Feeling called back to where you grew up.

• Starting from the features and collected items that you have - bringing out the story and fitting the function around that.

• The importance of switching off from tech and the noise of the world.

• How music and memories connect.

Kim is the founder of Nest and Flourish Interiors, a Yorkshire-based design studio specialising in inclusive, accessible environments that enhance wellbeing, dignity, and independence. After a 20-year career in nursing, 15 of those as a community nurse, she saw first-hand how thoughtfully designed spaces can transform physical and mental health. This insight led her to retrain at the National Design Academy and bring a clinically informed perspective to interior design.

Today, Kim works with clients across Yorkshire and Greater Manchester to create homes, workplaces, and community settings that support people of all ages, abilities, and neurodiverse needs. Blending healthcare expertise with creative design, she crafts spaces that are not only beautiful but deeply functional, personalised, and empowering. Through Nest and Flourish Interiors, Kim is redefining what inclusive design can look and feel like - proving that purposeful spaces can be stylish, supportive, and truly for everyone.

You can also check out Kim’s article in issue 5 of The Curated Nest Magazine. Scroll down for the link.

Connect with your host, Heather Moore

Website: www.heathermoorefineart.co.uk Instagram: @heather_moore_fine_art Pinterest Heather Moore Fine Art

YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@heathermoorefineart

Plus get more inspiration for your interiors in my FREE downloadable quarterly magazine - The Curated Nest. Get it here: https://heather-moore-fine-art.kit.com 

Connect with Kim Heslip

Website: www.nestandflourish.co.uk 

Instagram: www.instagram.com/nest_and_flourish 

Sarah Burghard is an interior and textile designer with over ten years experience creating story-led interiors for hospitality brands before launching her latest venture, SIGNATURE- STYLING™ a bespoke textile and soft furnishings service for interior designers.

Based between the UK and Indonesia, Sarah combines her 7th generation textile heritage with modern digital printing and small-run production to help interior designers and creatives create custom fabrics that perfectly express their individuality.

Her mission is to make bespoke textiles easy, inspiring, and accessible so every designer and creative can deliver distinctive fabrics and interiors with a wow factor.

In this episode:

• The process of moving things around and making them look great

• Den building as a child

• Building memories into spaces through collected items and events that happen in a home

• Heirlooms that connect us to special people from our past

• Why a cohesive plan is important when designing a space

01:25 Tell us a little more about yourself

07:12 What is your favourite thing about your home?

12:26 What turned it from a house into a home?

16:04 Do you have a favourite piece of art/fav accessory in your home?

18:12 What's your favourite room?

21:03 Where is your happy place?

23:18 What would your dream home be like? Setting, rooms, garden…

27:27 Quick fire

28:30 Bonus interiors tips

Connect with your host, Heather Moore

Website: www.heathermoorefineart.co.uk Instagram: @heather_moore_fine_art Pinterest Heather Moore Fine Art

YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@heathermoorefineart

Plus get more inspiration for your interiors in my FREE downloadable quarterly magazine - The Curated Nest. Get it here: https://heather-moore-fine-art.kit.com 

Connect with Sarah

Website:www.burgharddesigns.com

Take the Fabric Quiz on the pop up of the home page.

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sarah_burghard_designs/?hl=en-gb

Linkedin:https://uk.linkedin.com/in/sarahburghard