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… beginning. With the help of a very good painter and decorator, we found the courage to use very strong Victorian colours and paint effects. We painted the guest sitting-room – The Blue Room – three times before we got to the blue we wanted! 
We wanted the ‘feeling’ of a grand old house or stately home, with family portraits and lovely old furniture everywhere. Our guests are usually the type who enjoy the grand-old-house effect, from well-off young professionals to comfortably-off retired people. Our rates are a little more than a smaller B&B, but cheaper than …

… is endless but the result is the same. No space.  And the busier I am, the calmer I need my surroundings.
So this project is a serious, no nonsense, unsentimental getting rid of things job. We hang on to things for our future, our children, who don’t want brown furniture (“don’t bring more STUFF Mummy”), old times’ sake and just because we don’t actually SEE it any more. It’s a dichotomy, but the more familiar a room is, the less you actually look at it. 
I have a definite style, keeping the spirit of my Georgian …

… enjoy meeting the guests, who come here from all over the world.”
Sheila and Robert have added a number of pieces of furniture themselves since taking over five years ago. “We brought our own leather sofas for the lounge,” she says. “We replaced the conservatory furniture replacing it with antique furniture we bought from Tennant’s Auction House in nearby Leyburn. We also bought antique rugs from Tennants,” she adds.
 
Luxury beauty
 
The owners were introduced to the high-end brand of toiletries they now use by one of the tourist body inspectors. Sheila says: “Noble Isle is the old …