I’ve had a bit of a eureka moment with my house. After a year of dithering and not quite feeling confident about what I wanted to do with it, I feel as though I’ve finally found my furnishing and decorating groove. I’ve embraced the Georgian architecture with its ornate cornicing and big fireplaces and all of the stuff that was a bit out of my comfort zone, and I’ve started to make it work with my vintage furniture and my penchant for outré ceiling lights. In fact, it’s almost as though the elegant Georgian features are starting to form a sort of backdrop for my collection of modernist bits and bobs. A kind of gallery. And I really really like it.
But – as I say – I’ve had a year of painful dithering and I’ve made a few mistakes, so I thought I’d tell you about the five things I’ve realised about interiors. The most important being (and this should be my finale but I’m going to put helpfulness over suspense-building here):
1 – It’s only bloody interiors, none of it really matters that much on the scale of things, unless your job is actually styling interiors or renting your house out as a shoot location. If you do either of those things then you’ll probably spend quite a lot of time squinting at various rooms in your house and wondering what’s “not quite right”, but for the rest of us, those who are into interior styling and decorating because we just love houses...