Design Notes: Matilda Goad

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My husband lived here before me,

so when I moved in I sort of injected a lot of my clutter

and pink and a lot of my style.

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This piece of art is by an artist called Alec O,

who's a Brazilian artist, and I just love the coloring

of the tones mixed with the pink here,

I think it works really well together.

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So this, I was on hunt for for ages

and it came from an antique dealer in Brighton.

This is like my hall here [laughs].

This Peter Blake I found

actually on Portobello Road years ago.

My coffee table I love.

it's sort of, I treat it a bit like a evolving shelf.

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I put this in, I found all of the parts

at a reclamation yard down in Somerset,

and I felt like the room needed to have a, kind of,

quite an original fireplace.

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I added in this back panel here,

which we tongue and grooved.

Above the wall here, I have quite contrasting taste in art

to my husband, so I think quite a good way

of getting round it is to sort of mix it all in together.

The hanging pendant lights here,

it's a collaboration I did with edit58.

The flat is very skinny and tall,

so you sort of spend a lot of time

going up and down the stairs,

and I really wanted to inject the wallpaper in.

I really wanted to have, there's the cupboards either side,

this really strong red gloss,

so you look into a blue room

and you've come from the wallpaper,

so to me it's sort of connected them quite well.

So the cane I found from a company overseas,

which is a little bit treacherous,

because it only comes in certain widths,

and we just managed to make it.

This, I did it about 11 o'clock on a Monday night [laughs].

The blinds, the material is a Guy Goodfellow print.

I love that it's additional old-fashioned print

that you'd probably see more in, like, a country house,

and it's here with the cowhide rug and the cane

and the blue and all these

sort of quite mad, modern elements.

The bobbin chairs were actually from my pop-up shop

I had last autumn, and I think they work quite well

as side tables because it's a spare room.

Another real favorite combination of mine,

which I use quite a lot, is dark green and pale pink,

and I think it works so well

because it doesn't feel too feminine,

but equally it doesn't feel too masculine.

It's a very good balance, and I think in a bathroom,

it works very well.

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The prints here are sourced antique prints

that Izell and I source for clients, which I love,

they're such a lovely thing to have in a room,

they feel so neutral and kind of quite calming in a way.

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The bed is a really old friend.

It was one of the first bits of furniture I bought

and it's sort of really when my cane obsession started.

I must have got it about six years ago.

I was looking everywhere and everywhere,

and I think beds are quite hard to find,

particularly when I always have something

very exact in my head of what I want.

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So I wanted to add in another bathroom in the space

rather than just having another loo and a little sink.

The tiles were already here, so we decided to keep those,

but I love this wallpaper.

I think it's definitely a print

that's gonna follow me around a few different homes.

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So the roof only really came alive about two months ago

when I acquired the help of two young gardeners

called Willz and Tillz, who I highly recommend,

and they, I sourced all these old water troughs

from different reclamation yards around the country,

which I think works so well on a roof terrace,

'cause you don't wanna have too small pots.

I just really wanted to create space

and to sort of obstruct the road downstairs.

The mad orange trees, they came from an antique fair

and I since set them in some concrete,

which I had sort of creating an entrance

at my pop-up shop I had last year.

The table, it used to be

a sort of quite scary industrial door on wheels,

and we actually have drilled it on top of, kind of,

quite a standard Homebase table that was already here,

and it works quite well,

I mean, it's becoming very weathered,

It probably needs a bit of treatment at some point,

but I think aesthetically it all works quite well.

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