What would be your advice to someone who is wanting to pursue a career as an interior stylist?

Preserve! Keep styling, researching, putting together mood boards or vignettes, take a million photos and use social media as a portfolio of your work.

Styling is a huge part of your job. Talk us through the styling aspect of each project.

This is a hard one – weighing up your own style as compared to the client or item you’re styling. If it’s a client job, I listen to what they like and put colours and products together that I think they will like and work from there. If it’s product styling, it needs to highlight the product but fit into my fairly neutral aesthetic.

What are some of your favourite colours to style with and why?

I am all about the neutrals – white, grey, beige, tan, blush. My life is fairly chaotic so I feel having these colours around me is calming. Keeping this colour palette throughout my home enables me to move stuff around.

What does a typical day in the life of Bettina Brent look like?

Haha, a little crazy! Once I’ve got the kids and husband out the door, its cleaning the house so I can actually style somewhere where the light is right(ish). There’s usually only one area of my home that’s nicely styled. Always emails and boring paperwork but now I have a new passion for essential oils that I’m spending time researching and putting into practice.

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