Feeling free is having a choice and something I often forget to be grateful for.

I am masterminding a scheme with my local council to support small creative start ups and promote pop up shop culture within the local community.

I quit living in London to live by the seaside.

You need to have love.

Wise words from Gerard Saunders, the mastermind behind Seans Brothers Designs, a bespoke upcycled furniture venture that makes use of disposable items.  You can purchase his unique designs or request for him to revamp your own.  He has taken items found in the road, restored, painted and fitted them with reclaimed handles to create ‘Drawers Noir’ (pictured top right), the backs of old chairs to create a chair shelf (pictured left middle) and a 1930′s low chair that he restored, painted and upholstered with 1960′s tweed suit trousers to create a tweed and black low-rider chair (pictured lower left).

Christina Jean