Total bile
This just in via Vogue’s March issue… Ladies must have Total Style. You too, can have Total Style. How?
Step 1. Have fabulous house. Have fancy job and/or life titles. Examples – chatelaine and festival director, fashion-shoot producer and tv presenter…
Step 2: Abandon all ideas of wearing your slouchies around the house. Get your best threads on. Extra points if your dogs are in avantegarde pet-wear…
Step 3: So you still love boho? Don’t worry about it. You’re still winning, just make sure your face says so.
Hope you’re now feeling as fabulous as I am.
Sssssssh don’t interrupt me, I am building a huge Papier Mache elephant to hang in my lounge, sorry Orangerie, beside my antique watering cans/whatever they are [middle spread]. I only hope I don’t get any on my old red trackies, sorry, I meant my medieval frock.
Oh dear, do you have to build you own papier mache elephants? All the ones in the My Friend’s House hunting lodge were made for us by an amusing artisan in the village. x
LOL – so true – even the Guardian mags weekender was uber rich with 3 houses including french ski chalet etc last weekend. http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2011/feb/05/weekender-jan-scott-interior-designer. *slits wrists at own inadequacy*
haha…you guys are becoming such a bad influence on me haha…if they came to take photos of me and my house right now they will run away as far as they could, I could not be less stylist than this and my studio looks like a trolls cave. Anyway I totally get you, I keep seeing more and more of this articles popping up everywhere, I guess blogs are to blame for. Love your writing!! Lets do a magazine where people look normal and their houses are just as they are!!
Well Troll’s-cave-chic is very 2012. I think you may be talking about the radical and liberating world of the Real Reveal (TM).
https://myfriendshouse.wordpress.com/2010/10/18/do-you-dare/
Hello, just found your blog and this post made me chuckle! I was recently contacted by an interiors writer via etsy asking if I would be up for my home to be featured in a mag… I was quite excited until I realised they would actually come to my teeny one bedroom flat, see the mouldy bathroom, overgrown garden and general chaos as I attempt to decorate on a few pounds, and likely run a mile!
As much as I like them for inspiration, these articles can sometimes make you real really quite s**t!
Great blog!
Excellent stuff! Perhaps they should re-name this feature Totally Unachievable Style.