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beauty and interiors director, The Sunday Times @theststyle
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Home! Just two for now because some are landscape, some are portrait and all make me feel slightly overwhelmed about sharing my most personal space ont’internet. I bought this flat in the depths of despair, completely underestimating how much work it - and I - required. Thought it was going to be cosmetic and fun but it was deep boned and boring. The budget evaporated alongside my sanity. After nearly three years, it is my sanctuary, my favourite place on the planet. Home has, and always will, mean so much to me and this makes count my slightly damp and drafty, spider ridden stars ♥️
@theststyle 📸: @horwoodphoto by @phoebejmcd

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Kitchen! The cupboards, made by @fallowworkshops are @farrowandball Cola, with a Rosso Levanto marble that’s stained to fuck but we breathe and continue to cut lemons on it anyway. Hardware is a mix of @corstonarchitecturaldetail and @beataheuman. The utensils rail is @devolkitchens, as is the tap which I always wanted but decided I couldn’t afford at the time so bought a crap copy and nearly cried (just kidding) at how bad it looked. Spent twice as much in the end than if I’d just bought the Devol tap in the first place. The three stainless steel wall lights are from a Manchester based company called Nocturne Studio, and the articulated one by my grandad and grandma was about £40 from @vinterior. Speaking of grandparents, the carimite chairs are theirs from 1962. I’ve been sitting on them for 30+ years and resuscitated them by painting them blue. The blind - are you bored yet? - is a really sweet light linen from @eastlondoncloth and the banquette is in an @ian_mankin ticking. It folds open and is crucial storage in a small kitchen, as is the bottom oven which is rarely used as a result. Had the kitchen table made by @konkfurniture because it was an awks space and I couldn’t find anything dimensions wise that I liked. It was loosely based around a Charlotte Perriand design. I think I got everything but watch someone ask where the lamp is from. Oh yeah, actually, it’s @_findere_. Loads more flat stuff to share if you want it. Say you want it! Or maybe just mute me for a week. Either or! 📷: @horwoodphoto for @theststyle by @phoebejmcd

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A snippet from my piece in today’s @theststyle interiors special, which is excellent btw. IMHO! ‘Some words for the wise. Trust your eye over any rule book and let that eye wander. Aesthetic monogamy is dreadfully dull. Being “done” is a liminal state: there is always as much left to do as there is already finished. The wiggle room is precious because it’s where you stitch it all together and implant the soul. Second, and this one is important: no matter how consuming your renovation, do not talk about it. It is transcendentally boring to anyone but you. The housing equivalent of dissecting your dreams or sharing your marathon training plan. Having said that, as someone who just can’t help myself, my DMs are always open.’ 📷: @horwoodphoto by @phoebejmcd

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clothes I wore to work 🤳 taken in The Times and The Sunday Times by @phoebejmcd

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fun but work but fun 🌚 by @phoebejmcd

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7 maybe 8 @theststyle beauty awards and I’m starting to think that eyeliner might be for me after all, another year celebrating the best in beauty - congrats to all our exceedingly worthy winners, until next year 🫡 taken in Six Senses London by @phoebejmcd

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someone’s gotta hold it down at Disney by @phoebejmcd

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M. C. Dowell geddit? by @phoebejmcd

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🌚 by @phoebejmcd

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refamiliarising myself with reading and the shallow frying of courgettes three ways by @phoebejmcd

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too late to post about football so instead some patriotic fits, dinners and dust by @phoebejmcd

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The internet forever says, ‘people are always asking me…’ and often you suspect they’re not. But people really do ask me where to go for dinner. Which is what happens when you eat out more than you eat in, until you’re crying out for Heinz beans on Hovis White. And so… four great new spots. 1) @impala.soho , from the same group as Brat, Mountain and Smokestack, is open fire, North African, Egyptian, Middle Eastern-y. Warm blistered flatbreads and lots of delicious stuff to drag them through - olive oil and harissa, white beans with bottarga. There’s only one pud on the menu and it’s a salty sweet date and pistachio custard tart, its top the colour of moss. 2) @tavernlondon in Shoreditch feels like someone gave a ye olde boozer to a Scandinavian. White paper table clothes, sheepskin throws and pewter tankards. I am a lifelong pork scratching stan so giant shards of crisped up pork fat - dipped in cod’s roe - were totally thrilling. As was a salad strewn with nasturtiums. I went on a day that was hotter than the hinges of hell and wished it was chilly so I could be cosy and starving and more appreciative of the theatre. 3) @vesper.restaurant is Jackson’s Boxer’s latest in Exmouth Market, but you already knew that. Jermaine Ghallacher handled design so there’s plenty of quirk and a studded zinc bar. I had crisps and (more!) cods roe, half a roast chicken and two - maybe three - gooseberry margaritas. 4) @burro_restaurant in Covent Garden comes from one of the guys behind everyone’s fav Islington institution, @trullo_restaurant . It’s a similar deal on food (duck and porcini ragu!) but the whole place is bigger, brighter and more ritzy. Enjoy :)🍴 by @phoebejmcd

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