How lifestyle guru Louise Roe decorates her London home for Christmas By VICTORIA GRAY FOR YOU MAGAZINE Published: 03:00 EST, 14 December 2024 | Updated: 03:00 EST, 14 December 2024 e-mail View comments Louise Roe, former fashion journalist and founder of lifestyle brand Sharland England, is seeing red; as in wall-paint red. ‘Sang de Boeuf by Edward Bulmer Natural Paint is my all-time favourite,’ she says of the reddish-brown shade covering the walls of her five-bedroom London townhouse. ‘[It] works beautifully in any light.
’ The tablecloth, tableware and rattan pieces on Louise’s antique refectory table are from her brand sharland-england.com. She bought the Windsor chairs on gumtree.
com Time was when red flooring was more the 43-year-old’s thing. Covering the red carpet for US broadcaster NBC’s Access Hollywood, Roe once gave Gwyneth Paltrow a quiz on cockney rhyming slang (which Gwynnie aced, incidentally). On another occasion she received an excited hug from Julia Roberts outside the Emmys (Roe later discovered that the actress was a fan of her show).
The walls are painted in Sang de Boeuf by edwardbulmerpaint.co.uk.
Louise says, ‘Lit with lamps and candlelight it becomes a rich, cosy, enveloping hue’ While still working in television stateside, Roe met TV director Mackenzie Hunkin (also British) and the two were married in 2016. Their first daughter, Honor, was born in 2018, but becoming a mum made Roe homesick. ‘We’d had such a great time in Los An.
