“Let me tell you all about my storage ”

HADLEY FREEMAN ON WHY HAVING EVERYTHING IN ITS PLACE PLEASES HER SO

When friends come over to check out my new home, they walk past the faux antique mirror I bought to jazz up my first flat when I was in my twenties and the pink sofa I bought to jazz up my first home in my thirties. The purple velvet chairs with gold legs, the treasured portrait of my dog: these are all things I bought over the years for various homes, and my friends have been made to admire them all. But now that I’m in the first (and hopefully the last) home I’ve moved into in my forties, I make them admire something else: I make them admire my storage. “Is this boring? A bit tragic? W ho cares? For the first time since having kids, I have a tidy…

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Ideal Home (Digital) - 1 Issue, September 2022

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