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My Forever Home

Join award winning interior designer, author and Forever Home expert, Frances, as she takes you on the journey to create the Forever Home of your dreams. Frances will help you navigate all the big ticket items, and all the little details that get lost along with way when renovating or building a new home. Focusing on sharing key information to ensure you"re planned and prepared for the journey, she"ll share how to ensure your home is functional, sustainable, durable, and aesthetically

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E110 - My Forever Home Live - Getting the Details...

My Forever Home ·

2022/09/08

In this Facebook Forever Home Live Frances discusses some key functionality points to consider in your home design before the build starts. She outlines small details that are often missed that affect the functionality of your home, and lead to disappointment when not picked up in time to rectify.

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E109 - Beautiful Home Design Made Easy Online Course

My Forever Home ·

2022/03/10

Doors Close 8pm TODAY! Be your own interior designer and create a home you truly love with my Beautiful Home Design Made Easy Online Course. The proven step-by-step formula to create your Dream Home, based on my 15 years of experience as an interior designer. In this course, you’ll go from feeling overwhelmed and unsure to feeling confident of making the right decisions while experiencing the satisfaction of creating a home you’ll love. What's Included: ✔️19 lessons of learning to guide you on your

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24:50

E108 - Floorplans – Preventing Under-Utilised Spaces

My Forever Home ·

2022/02/24

In this episode of the My Forever Home podcast, Frances discusses how to prevent having under utilised spaces in your home. She outlines the common areas that often appear on floorplans, which are not well utilised and what you need to think about to ensure all space is maximised in your home. This is to save money now, but for the duration of your time in the home. SHOWNOTES: Sometimes, homeowners can rush with getting their floor plans completed as they are so keen to get their home built or

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15:17

E107 - Creating a Vision for Your Home

My Forever Home ·

2022/02/17

In this episode of the podcast, Frances outlines how important it is to create a vision for your home, and that a vision is not just about the way you want your home to look. She outlines what a vision is for your home, what you should think about when creating it, and how to go about it to make it about aesthetics as well as functionality.

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34:10

E106 - How to Choose the Right Floor

My Forever Home ·

2022/02/10

In this episode of My Forever Home, Frances runs through key considerations when deciding on your flooring type. She outlines 10 buying criteria for choosing the right floor for your home along with key mistakes people can make when deciding on their floor, and how best to avoid those mistakes. The floor in your home makes a big impact and has to work really hard for you, so it’s important to be informed about different flooring available, choose carefully, and buy the best you can afford.

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E105 - Engaging Key Specialists for your renovation...

My Forever Home ·

2022/02/02

In this episode of My Forever Home, Frances outlines what she terms the ‘Key 4’ specialists you’ll need on your team for your renovation or new build. She outlines the benefits of engaging your key team early on, along with how they can each save you money and lots of time, as well as mitigate expensive mistakes. She outlines what each of them brings to the equation for a successful outcome for your home project.

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46:05

E104 - How I Managed the Build - Designing...

My Forever Home ·

2022/01/21

In this episode of the podcast, part 3 of this three-part series on how Frances designed and built her Forever Home, this episode explores how Frances managed the build of her home. She outlines how she did it, what she’d do differently, and the opportunity cost of project managing your own build. Shownotes : Tender process Usually, building designers will manage the tendering process. This means that they are responsible for engaging with the builders, sending out all the tender documentation and

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37:29

E103 - Interiors - Designing and Building my Forever...

My Forever Home ·

2022/01/14

In this episode of this 3 part series on how Frances created her Forever Home, Frances outlines how she specified the interior materials and finishes for her own home. She walks through her vision for the home, her decision making criteria, things she would do differently now, and how she stayed true to herself when selecting items for her home. Shownotes The interiors are often regarded as the exciting part of building a home, but with so many options available, it can also be the

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44:56

E102 - The Vision and Finding an Architect -...

My Forever Home ·

2022/01/06

In this special 3 part series 'Designing and Building my Own Forever Home', Frances will take you on her own Forever Home Journey. In this episode, Part 1 of the series, Frances outlines how she created the vision for her home along with how she researched and found her architect to design the home. This series is a wonderful insight, and personal story, warts and all, of how Frances designed and built her own Forever Home.

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47:22

E101: A week in a life of an Interior Designer

My Forever Home ·

2021/12/08

In this podcast episode, Frances lets you into a week of her life of being an interior designer and running her own business. She outlines each day, what typically goes on and what curve balls she has to tackle when it doesn’t all go according to plan. It’s a great insight into the world of an open and upfront interior designer, who tells it like it is, and is raw and real in this episode. You’ll get to see, it’s not all as glamourous as you may think! Welcome to a week in the life of Frances

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E100: Coordinating Bathroom Floors and Colour Tone

My Forever Home ·

2021/11/18

In this short and sharp episode, Frances discusses the coordination of bathroom floor tiles with the main flooring throughout the home, and how tiles cannot be looked at in isolation from other materials in the home. She chats about the overall colour tone being used in the home, either warm or cool, and how that also needs to be reflected in bathroom material choices. SHOWNOTES A key bathroom mistake Frances often sees is NOT looking at the entire flow of material selections from one part of the

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E99: B1G1 Partnership Announcement

My Forever Home ·

2021/11/04

In this episode, Frances makes an exciting announcement about the partnership with B1G1 and White Pebble Interiors. She outlines her goal to use her business as a vehicle to help others around the globe (not just through creating amazing homes for her clients). She explains how working with B1G1 aligns with the values of the business, the team and her own personal values, by contributing to the livelihood of others and providing an impact around the world. The particular focus where she wants

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26:11

E98 - How to Brief your Architect (and other...

My Forever Home ·

2021/10/22

In this episode of the podcast, Frances outlines the many reasons why you should write a brief for your architect (and your landscaper and interior designer), and why it’s so important. She also provides an outline of what to think about when creating your brief, how to start creating one, and what to include, and who should be involved. As a starting point for the vision of your home, the brief is a reference document that is referred back to many times throughout the process of creating your

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E97 - My Forever Home LIVE – Floorplans and Getting...

My Forever Home ·

2021/10/07

In this Facebook Live, Frances discusses the steps to take if your floorplans are not quite what you want. She outlines the steps you should take to have them meet your objectives, and who you could turn to, to help out in getting them right. Floorplan is king, so you must be happy with your plans before starting any build works for your renovation or new build. SHOWNOTES It's an easy trap to fall into when you have your floorplans and they are not really what you want, so you start to find

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E96 - My Forever Home- My Forever Home

My Forever Home ·

2021/09/16

In this episode of the podcast, Frances outlines a key change to Your Forever Home with a re-name to reflect how she feels about the brand. In the episode, she runs through her thinking behind the change, what it means to you and what it means to all the resources available to you.

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E95 - My Forever Home LIVE: Tile layout – Snapshot

My Forever Home ·

2021/09/09

In this Forever Home Live, Frances answers a question from the Renovating and Building your Forever Home Facebook Community about tile layout. Specifically around laying 300x600mm tiles for floor and walls. She also outlines how to finish splashbacks in power rooms and what to consider to determine the height to finish your tile, the impact of mirrors on tile layout, the height of 300-400mm for functionality purposes, and pattern in a tile affecting cuts and overall aesthetic. A great snapshot of

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E94 - My Forever Home LIVE: Timber Vs Timber Tile -...

My Forever Home ·

2021/08/05

In this Facebook Live, Frances outlines the key differences between using engineered timber flooring and timber tile flooring. She walks through the advantages and disadvantages of each and discusses criteria for when you may use one over the other.

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32:35

E93 - My Forever Home LIVE: Creating Wellbeing In...

My Forever Home ·

2021/07/26

Health and wellbeing are important now more than ever, as we all navigate through the Covid 19 pandemic. In this episode of the Your Forever Home podcast, Frances outlines different ways that we can incorporate wellness into our homes – through connection to the outdoors, bringing the outside in, use of colour and materials on our homes, and more permanently – designing for wellbeing. Sit back, relax, and delve into all the options to make you feel better in your home. SHOWNOTES In light

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E92 - My Forever Home LIVE: Ceiling Fans - what you...

My Forever Home ·

2021/07/07

In this Facebook Live, Frances discusses the buying criteria for a ceiling fan as not all fans are the same! She outlines why they are worth installing (so many reasons), and the controversial question of fan Vs pendant light in a bedroom. She also runs through why spending a little more on your ceiling fan provides so much more than a standard fan and is worth the investment.

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23:35

E91 - Season Summary - Bathroom Design Essentials

My Forever Home ·

2021/06/10

In this final episode of the Bathroom Design Essentials Season, Frances outlines some of the key take-aways from each episode as an easy reference tool for you to know where you need to listen next.

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