Interiors Home staging — the process by which spaces are prepared, furnished and decorated for sale or rent — is becoming increasingly common in the UK, and can boost home values and speed up property sales. So how does it work? You can tell a lot about a person from their home’s interiors . Olive and Anushka’s apartment at Bloom, Nine Elms, has a colourful open plan living space, with a pale blue ceiling, orange dining chairs, bright cushions on the sofa and an abstract, thick-laid impasto painting by a local artist on the wall.
There’s a Marina Abramović exhibition brochure from the Royal Academy on the coffee table, while the collection of cookbooks in the kitchen includes Ottolenghi’s Simple and Anna Jones’ One: Pot, Pan, Planet . The two friends, both in their 30s, share the apartment together. Anushka, a lifestyle editor, has the earthy-toned bedroom to the right.
I notice her tasteful linen bedspread, her dramatic black and white headboard and her slender red table lamps from local Palefire Studio. There’s a pair of ballet shoes in the corner — a childhood hobby that she’s recently restarted — a leaflet from her weaving class and a tennis racquet near her wardrobe, which contains Louis Vuitton heels, a pair of clean Veja trainers and some TALA activewear. Her ensuite bathroom has a good supply of Who Gives a Crap toilet paper, Aesop hand soap, and a trendy timber toothbrush.
Olive works in creative tech. Her room, opposite, is a world apart. The.
