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Utterly instagrammable:2018 interiors trends on show at Houzz's Soho townhouse takeover from houseplant workshops to rental styling tips

If you’re renovating your home, chances are you’ll know houzz.co.uk, a leading website for sharing home design ideas and expertise, and sourcing services and products. For one week, from January 26 to 31, Houzz is taking over a tall slim house in Soho to showcase the latest trends revealed by their research. Expect lots of green, botanicals, 1970s retro, and modern craft spread over a living room, kitchen, bedroom, bathroom, home office and children’s room. Interior design is by the Run for the Hills agency, who promise “an utterly instagrammable home”, imagining the occupants as a stylish urban couple and their “equally fashionista toddler.” Interiors by Run for the Hills: who promise an "utterly instagrammable home" Their scheme is a mix of high end and high street – “grown up and glamorous but also fresh and earthy….luxe upholstery, soft sheers…and layers of mood lighting, accessories, mirrors, art and some quirky personal touches. VIDEO: take a sneak peek inside the Houz

Edition 1 of SOHO : Ikea hacks and no toaster — the central London flat offering a masterclass in stylish micro-living

From : homesandproperty A lateral first-floor conversion in a gracious but then faded Georgian terrace, it had high ceilings and wrought iron balconies, in an area just on the up. After smartening it up on a tiny budget, she let it for 16 years, but has recently moved back in with her second husband, Simon George, 56, and her daughter, Missy. She had two other houses in between. Read more How many of IKEA's most iconic products do you have in your home? ​Bella’s very happy in the sunny, stylishly redone Clerkenwell flat. “Simon and I owned two big houses, everything would need to fit into our new home, this two-bedroom flat. So I gutted it.” When the couple got together in 2014, Bella changed career, and changed her philosophy, too. Both she and Simon had recently got divorced and sold their businesses. Now came the question of where to live. What it cost Clerkenwell lateral conversion flat in 1999: £285,000 (plus £5,000 refurb)  Money spent