Designing The Hebrides presents unusual makeovers that capture Banjo’s unquenchable energy, inventiveness, and design flair. The lives and uncertain futures of some of the island’s most celebrated natural residents will be explored by Natalie Sanders, who recounts her experiences of seeking the West Coast Community of Orca, and Kevin Morgans who has followed and photographed puffins around the British Isles.

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Also on the agenda for the interiors pro is his book, Wild Isle Style: Resourceful, Original and Inventive Design Ideas, which is due out in October. I was around five years old and I would move it all around, and then at the end of the day, I’d have to change it back.

He’s not: he’s actually quite gentle and mild and flustered, with a great line in amusing self-denigration, and bustles about on his little jobs as if the cameras aren’t really there. Banjo combines unique finds with clever design to create sustainable, characterful and collected spaces for his interior design clients and TV projects. Beale, also the star of the recent six-part BBC show “Designing the Hebrides” , as well as a judge on “Scotland’s Home of the Year”, said: “ Wild Isle Style is my roadmap for embarking on a design adventure, where we throw out the rule book and meet the colourful characters behind spaces that don’t cost the earth. They usually use the shelters for trackers or fishermen, but this bothy was getting made over in two days, ready for guests to check into.

TV interior design guru Banjo Beale launches new book

Originally from Australia, he now resides on the Isle of Mull in Scotland, where he lives with his partner and dog. We at The Oban Times endeavour to ensure that all our reports are fair and accurate and comply with the Editors’ Code of Practice set by the Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO). The outland ish tale of how an Aussie boy ended up on a Scottish island and onto Interior Design Masters on BBC. IPSO is an independent body which deals with complaints from the public about the editorial content of newspapers and magazines.I can’t wait for everyone to meet the collectors, thinkers and tinkerers, from the Hebrides to Antipodes, who have opened up their world to share how we can all create cool, calm and collected interiors. He gives you permission to have fun with your design space and encourages a resourceful mindset to combine natural elements and collected pieces to make your interiors sing. Talks were sold-out while other sessions from authors, including Mull interior designer and TV presenter Banjo Beale, entertained to full capacity and had standing room only.

Banjo Beale fronts new six-part series Interior designer Banjo Beale fronts new six-part series

But when that camera rolls and then you see someone’s house, you have a visceral reaction, good or bad and there’s no hiding that!Interior design guru, Banjo Beale, sets his sights on the Scottish isles in Designing The Hebrides, a new six-part series (6x30), co-commission for BBC Scotland and BBC Two produced by DSP production (a Banijay UK company). So a mud room is really the most important room when I get home, just to kind of wash away all of that, and then I love just putting the fire on and kind of cosying in and looking outside. It’s an accessible roadmap to creating authentic and sustainable design that doesn’t cost the earth. No matter your style, from budget bougi to boho nouveau, this book will uncover universal ideas that you can easily implement into your next design.