MY STYLE INSPIRATIONS TV presenter Laura Jackson
TV presenter, homeware designer and co-founder of the hugely successful supper club Jackson & Levine, Laura, 32, has a collection with Habitat. She lives in London with her photographer husband Jon Gorrigan
MY HOME
Somebody once described home as your personal film set in which you live out your life. It’s an expression of your personality, where you feel most comfortable. I live in a Victorian house but the era is just a backdrop.
MY STYLE
Our house is filled with collections I’ve found from my travels and life, rather than buying everything from one shop. Our house is currently being renovated – we used the home management company Hoppy to help us find reliable tradespeople as we had a disaster with someone before.
HEART-FELT PRESENTS
For our wedding gifts we asked people to buy us their favourite book, whether it was a story they’d loved as a child, a novel they love now or a coffee table book on photography, and write a line on the first page about why they chose it. Our shelves and table in our living room are now filled with those gifts – it feels so personal.
MY HERITAGE
My mum used to make my sister and me matching outfits – we were a budget version of Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, the American fashion twins! She loves clothes, and we were quite crafty children. I grew up in Huddersfield, which had a big fabric market – Mum used to buy paper patterns and we’d go with her to help choose the material. It wasn’t until I was older that I got into home fabrics and began to know what I liked.
EAST END LIVING
Favourite places to eat near my home are Rochelle Canteen in Shoreditch, which blends modern and classic food beautifully, and also Little Duck – The Picklery, a fermenting kitchen and wine bar. For breakfast I like to go to Morito, a great tapas and meze place at Exmouth Market, and then maybe later take a walk along the Columbia Road flower market.
ART AT HOME
I like individual style and the idea of introducing art to my home gradually. It doesn’t have to be expensive – The Affordable Art Fair is a great place to find interesting pieces at reasonable prices, and graduate shows and exhibitions are good for inspired individual art.
LATIN LOVES
I fell in love with Mexico when I went there on holiday – the music, the food, the atmosphere. It’s so energised and full of colour. My perfect meal would be a Mexican feast served with a chilli Margarita.
FAVOURITE MUSIC
Film soundtracks are great.
Call Me By Your Name is one of my favourites, but I also enjoy what’s in the charts as well as music from the 1960s and 70s. My husband loves soul and Northern Soul and is a real record collector. He plays them at the weekend and while he’s listening, he brings me a cup of tea in bed. I like the sound a record makes and the way, when it gets to the end of the music, it just crackles! It feels more authentic.
MY FRIENDS
Relationships are everything.
I would be lost without my group of friends. I’m a really sociable person. I’m able to entertain myself but I feed off other people’s energy – I really don’t like sitting in a room on my own. HB
Find out more about Hoppy and Laura’s home-renovation progress at hoppy.co.uk