The easy design hacks for a stress-free home – room by room

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Sims Hilditch; he, the kitchen and furniture company Neptune (with which Emma is also creatively involved).The two successful businesses prove that the Sims-Hilditches have an innate sense of how people want to live. “We do a lot of family homes,” says Emma, “where there’s naturally going to be a certain amount of chaos – all that paraphernalia that goes with family life.

Having had three kids myself, I understand that organisation in the home helps with that feeling of peace, so you don’t have a home that makes you feel stressed.”Emma’s skill is in translating that vision of relaxed yet functional modern living into stylish homes, through careful space-planning, thoughtful interior architecture and her own ­creative eye.

It’s an enviable talent; and in her first book, The Evolution of Home, she shares some of her secrets.“I like the word ‘evolution’,” she says. “A lot of the properties we work in are old, and have evolved over time to become homes we want to live in today.

In the modern world, we don’t have so much time to go and sit in the drawing room or the morning room – we mainly want to be in one big space.”Of course, since the start of the pandemic, many of us have thought about separate spaces too – for home offices and utility rooms to separate off the less aesthetically pleasing elements of home life.