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quirky pieces of furniture. Our mix of old and new really fi ts Bianca’s
style,” Simone says.
“I would call her style brave and quite exciti ng, I get a real buzz out
of look at Bianca’s creati ons, 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 fi ve, 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 fi nish my
houses, it started off as an idea to have a showroom but over the last
fi ve 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 fi nd 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 lighti ng candles
during the day to careful placements of lamps to swapping cooler
toned light bulbs to warm-toned bulbs.
Creati ng cosy and inviti ng spaces during the winter does not have to
be an enti re redesign, but is a matt er of starti ng 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.