Cath Kidston talking about the her home on times online:

“Then one day, as he was cycling past, Hugh saw a man with a tape measure,” says Kidston, 49. “He pedalled home and said, ‘That house we’ve looked at for years – it’s going to come up for sale, I know it.’ ” Eight years and a whole lot of planning, money-saving and building later, we are sitting in the finished house – all vintage fabrics, graphic art, bold blocks of colour and fresh garden flowers – and it’s hard to believe that it has been lived in for only 18 months. “I like houses that reflect their owner,” says Kidston in her hushed, cut-glass accent. “I don’t care what taste it is, but it has to have a personality.” Her pad speaks volumes about her, but, though her rose-tinted world may look a picture of perfection, the journey here has not always been easy.

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