{"id":4739,"date":"2015-12-15T12:06:45","date_gmt":"2015-12-15T12:06:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/janetmcmeekin.co.uk\/?p=4739"},"modified":"2015-12-15T13:19:39","modified_gmt":"2015-12-15T13:19:39","slug":"check-festive-georgian-townhouse-ideal-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/janetmcmeekin.co.uk\/index.php\/check-festive-georgian-townhouse-ideal-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Check out this festive Georgian townhouse in Ideal Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/janetmcmeekin.co.uk\/index.php\/check-festive-georgian-townhouse-ideal-home\/201508sep_0907\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4743\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4743\" src=\"http:\/\/janetmcmeekin.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/201508Sep_0907.jpg\" alt=\"201508Sep_0907\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/janetmcmeekin.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/201508Sep_0907.jpg 500w, https:\/\/janetmcmeekin.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/201508Sep_0907-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/janetmcmeekin.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/201508Sep_0907-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Having met Rachel Holland and Ruben Stephenson, I can totally understand why, one year, their characterful Georgian home became an open house with 80 revellers turning up to party with this fun-loving couple into the wee small hours.<\/p>\n<p>We had a really memorable Christmas shoot at this lovely couple\u2019s four-storey townhouse, located in the heart of Old Portsmouth.<\/p>\n<p>When the subject of a festive feature in Ideal Home&#8217;s January 2016 issue, first cropped up, Rachel announced: \u201cOh great, Ruben loves Christmas,\u201d and, I have to say, the energetic pair, who run commercial diving company <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rsdivers.co.uk\">RS Divers<\/a>, pulled out all the stops to welcome us into their home and ensure the shoot was a runaway success.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m really impressed with architect <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlarchitect.co.uk\">Carl Leroy-Smith\u2019s<\/a> creative transformation of this period home. The brand new storey, built by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.westcott.uk.com\">Jeremy Westcott<\/a> and his team, is a wonderful airy space that now boasts fabulous views over Portsmouth Harbour and out to the Isle of Wight. <a href=\"http:\/\/loaf.com\">Loaf\u2019s<\/a> Ruffle king-size bed in Turmeric Clever Velvet takes centre stage in the master bedroom.<\/p>\n<p>If, like Ruben, you love the festive season, and would like to see your home, complete with Christmas tree and decorations, featured in a national magazine, drop a line to <a href=\"mailto:mail@janetmcmeekin.co.uk\">mail@janetmcmeekin.co.uk<\/a> or call 01243 792379.<\/p>\n<p>Photographs, courtesy of Bruce Hemming<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/janetmcmeekin.co.uk\/index.php\/check-festive-georgian-townhouse-ideal-home\/201508sep_0870\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4741\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4741\" src=\"http:\/\/janetmcmeekin.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/201508Sep_0870.jpg\" alt=\"201508Sep_0870\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/janetmcmeekin.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/201508Sep_0870.jpg 500w, https:\/\/janetmcmeekin.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/201508Sep_0870-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/janetmcmeekin.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/201508Sep_0870-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Having met Rachel Holland and Ruben Stephenson, I can totally understand why, one year, their characterful Georgian home became an open house with 80 revellers turning up to party&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/janetmcmeekin.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/janetmcmeekin.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/janetmcmeekin.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/janetmcmeekin.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/janetmcmeekin.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4739"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/janetmcmeekin.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4757,"href":"https:\/\/janetmcmeekin.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4739\/revisions\/4757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/janetmcmeekin.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/janetmcmeekin.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/janetmcmeekin.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}