Blimey, where to even begin? It\u2019s like walking into a spice market in Marrakech at midday\u2014your eyes don\u2019t know where to land first. That\u2019s maximalism for you. It\u2019s not just \u201cmore is more,\u201d darling, it\u2019s more is *everything*.<\/p>\n
Right, textures. Think of that one friend who can\u2019t resist touching everything in a shop. Maximalist decor is made for them. It\u2019s the *crunch* of a vintage Kilim rug underfoot, layered right over a sleek, worn-in Persian one. It\u2019s the cool, smooth slide of a velvet emerald-green sofa piled with about six cushions\u2014and not matching ones, oh no. You\u2019ve got rough, nubby linen next to silky tasselled trim next to something faux fur that you swear came from a 1970s disco.<\/p>\n
I remember helping a client in Notting Hill last autumn, poor chap was terrified of colour. We ended up in a warehouse in Bermondsey, and I made him run his hands over a wall hanging made of wool roving. It was cloud-soft. \u201cThis,\u201d I told him, \u201cgoes next to the lacquered Chinoiserie cabinet.\u201d The look on his face! But it worked. The clash of that dry, polished wood against the fluffy, almost messy textile\u2026 it\u2019s the friction that gives a room its buzz.<\/p>\n
And colour? Don\u2019t get me started. It\u2019s not about picking a palette from a chart. It\u2019s about mood, memory, pure joy. I once saw a loo in Brighton\u2014a *loo*\u2014papered in this wild, peacock-blue tropical print, and the towels were fuchsia. Felt like a party. That\u2019s the spirit.<\/p>\n
You know what really defines it, though? The personal clutter. The shelves heaving with travel trinkets, the walls a proper gallery of mismatched frames. It\u2019s the polaroid from a Lisbon tram next to a gilded mirror from a Paris flea market. It\u2019s alive. It tells a story, a bit rambling, with tangents, but a brilliant story nonetheless.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s not for the faint-hearted. My first flat? I went mad in the fabric shop on Goldhawk Road. Ended up with curtains that could\u2019ve stunned a bull. Took me two years to realise I had to *balance* the riot, not just add to it. A dark, moody wall can make all those trinkets sing instead of shout.<\/p>\n
So yeah, it\u2019s a glorious, unapologetic mash-up. It\u2019s the feeling you get when you finally wear that patterned jacket you were saving for a \u201cspecial occasion.\u201d Life\u2019s the occasion, innit? Just dive in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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