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Reena Simon

Welsh interiors designer, author and founder of Hygge for Home / The Intentional Home®, known for renovating "The Black House" in Cardiff and co-authoring the bestseller Scandi Rustic.

Oct 27, 2026

The Home I Made

The Home I Made

Reena Simon: "Home is freedom"

Oct 27 · 1h 0m

Lindsay BlairHOST
21:49
Did you think he was going a bit
Reena SimonGUEST
21:50
mad? There is no way because of like my personality and what I love and like I love history.
Reena SimonGUEST
21:56
I nearly did history at university, but I did English.
Reena SimonGUEST
22:01
And I kind of, you know, we lived in the bungalow, sorry, the cottage, the Victorian cottage.
Reena SimonGUEST
22:11
I was fixated on, you know, I'm only living in period properties.
Reena SimonGUEST
22:15
That was my, you know, non-negotiable, which I thought.
Reena SimonGUEST
22:18
And when we were looking for, you know, to move out from where we were living, we were looking at kind of, you know, semi-detached properties.

25 MINS LATER

Lindsay BlairHOST
47:01
How do you maintain the boundaries and how do you not get swayed by what you see online? How do you stay true to your own self when it comes to the design of your home?

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