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berdeenshire is about as far be a far more organic experience. The furniture,
away from Middle East as it for example, was not carefully picked out in
is possible to get – and it’s advance with this house in mind. “I’ve just seen
not just the physical distance it, loved it and bought it,” says Emma, “and
of five thousand miles that then I’ve made it fit!” This method has made the
A separates them. The two are home she shares with her husband and daughter
poles apart in terms of climate, tradition, culture a very personal, eclectic space that tells the story
and style. Somehow, though, in her family home, of her life.
one Scottish interior designer has managed to Her husband’s engineering job took the
harmoniously combine the elements that make couple to the Middle East in the 1990s, where
each destination so unique. In doing so, Emma their daughter was born. Emma was keen to have
Clanfield has made her converted steading a place a base in Scotland to keep up family links, so from
that truly encompasses all the things she loves best. her modern, spacious, air-conditioned Middle
The way she has approached this project has Eastern home, she began searching for property
been quite different from the method she uses around Aber deen shire, where her parents and
when designing interiors for a client. Had the brother, and his family, are based.
latter been the case, the job would have been Nothing much caught her eye, until she
planned down to the smallest detail before any happened upon a U-shaped steading at the top
work began, with timeframe and budget guiding of a hill. It felt like too good an opportunity to
her. Designing for herself, however, has proven to miss. The house was initally intended as a

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