To an outsider,my old life was pretty peachy. I owned a ‘bags of potential’ Victorian house in south London,worked on the UK’s biggest interiors magazine and got to look around other people’s gorgeous houses for a living.
When I wasn’t working,my husband Ben and I were renovating our house,turning into something that would eventually grace the pages of an interiors magazine.
Our twins Esme and Alfie were born in September 2009,and so began a completely new life,which saw me somehow survive the first year with twins,give up the job I loved,and in summer 2011 leave London for the home counties,something the old me would have told you would never,ever happen in a million years.
My first blog,Young &Younger,is all about my life as a mum of twins. Now we’ve moved into a new house and it seems the perfect moment to start this blog to chart my journey as I try to turn this 1970s box into a family home and to share the secrets and tips I’ve picked up through my years as a homes junkie.
Things have changed. I don’t have the budget to spend on designer stuff (not that I ever really did,if I’m honest) and whatever we do has to stand the Toddler Test,so this house is going to see if I can compromise my idea of style with the practicalities of living in a busy family home.
This time it’s your turn to nose round my house…
