AT Home with Sarah Beeny - December 2011 - (Page 253)

| AND FINALLY| LAST WORD Pick me! WORDS: GEORGINA MARIC AND SARAH BEENY | PHOTOGRAPH: JOHN CAERY | STYLING: GEMMA SHANLEY | HAIR AND MAKE UP: KIM KIEFER | SARAH WEARS: SHIRT, £65, BODEN WE FIND OUT WHAT’S GOING ON IN SARAH BEENY’S WORLD Sarah’s dating site MySingleFriend. com has been nominated in the best dating website category of the Website of the Year 2011 awards (www.websiteoftheyear.co.uk). The site currently has just under 1 million users on it and, to date, there have been many thousands of MySingleFriend weddings! You heard it here ﬁrst! 2011 has seen Sarah grace our screens in a couple of shows and saw her ﬁrst ever BBC appearance when she fronted Village SOS (see pg 36). There was a second series of Beeny’s Restoration Nightmare charting the renovation of her East Riding home, Rise Hall. She says what she’d really like is to have her own chat show. SARAH MIGH TV BUT TALL ON THE , SHE IN REAL LIFE A STANDS AT 3ins t DIMINUTIVE 5fE 10! ND IS A SIZ A SUPER STIZE K LOO The Rise Hall renovation has given opportunities to several companies, products and services ● Compare The Carpet – not only a great name but it o ers carpets and ooring at low prices. www.comparethecarpet.com ● Therma eece – for eco-friendly insulation, wool is the natural choice as it’s e cient, sustainable, safe and durable. www.therma eece.com ● Stelrad – from the traditional to the contemporary, Stelrad o ers a range of uber cool radiators. www.stelrad.com ● EcoFlooring UK – specialises in recycling and tting reclaimed parquet ooring and solid wood oors. www.eco ooringuk.com ● Akula Living – this company o ers contemporary furniture including items made from rattan – which lasts a lifetime. Sarah fell in love with the Cocoon chair and bought it for the garden in Rise Hall. www.akulaliving.com MY TOP FIVE BEENY BABIES? ‘My world revolves around my children,’ Sarah says. ‘I get a kick out of work, but my family is the most important thing. I know I’ll wake up one morning and they’ll have left home, so I won’t regret the time I have with them now. I’d like six children, but Graham, my husband, won’t let me – so I’m thinking four is probably su cient!’ So far, there are four Beeny boys, Billy, seven, Charlie, ve, Ra erty, three, and Laurie, the youngest, aged two. NEAT TWEETS Sarah is an avid tweeter, and earlier this month she asked her 61,000 (and counting) followers for the reasoning behind why her two-year-old son picked up his shoe and proceeded to wee in it! She also tweets about dating issues and, of course, how to get on the property ladder, sell your home and much more. Follow Sarah on Twitter at @sarahbeeny also @tepilo. DECEMBER 2011 | 253 http://www.websiteoftheyear.co.uk http://www.comparethecarpet.com http://www.thermafleece.com http://www.stelrad.com http://www.ecoflooringuk.com http://www.akulaliving.com http://www.twitter.com/tepilo http://www.twitter.com/sarahbeeny

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of AT Home with Sarah Beeny - December 2011

EDITOR’S LETTER
HELLO FROM SARAH
NEWS
MAKE IT A DATE
FESTIVE FOCUS
HOME COMFORTS
LIGHT FANTASTIC
PASTE IT UP
SARAH'S WORLD
VILLAGE REVAMP
TO LET OR NOT TO LET?
KEYS TO THE DOOR
QUEEN OF THE CASTLE
HOT PROPERTY
GREAT SCOTS
TRICKS OF THE TRADE
LODGE LIFE
VICTORIAN SPLENDOUR
FINISHING TOUCH
BEST OF THE BRIGHTS
STORE IN STYLE
BOUDOIR BEAUTIFUL
SHAKE IT UP!
FINE DINER
WHAT’S COOKING?
TOPS TOTTY
SPLASHING STUFF
NIGHT ON THE TILES
GADGETS GALORE
OPEN UP
TOTALLY FLOORED
MAT FINISH
COSY CARPETS
HOT STUFF
THE TEMPERATURE’S RISING
RADIATE THIS
FLAMING GREAT
BURN BABY BURN
DREAM HOME
GOING LARGE
SLIDING AWAY
KEEP IT IN
DRAUGHT EXCLUSIVE
DON’T BLAME THE TOOLS
GOING SOFT
ECO EXCELLENCE
WASTE NOT
BRIGHT SPARK
SUN SCREEN
STREET VIEW
BLOOMING BRILLIANT
GARDEN INVADER
GLITTERING BUYS
COMING SOON
SARAH SAYS
MANSION MARVEL
LAST WORD
STOCKISTS
PERFECT PROPERTIES

AT Home with Sarah Beeny - December 2011