Some of Virginia’s own textiles and wallpaper can be found around her home, which she has been busy putting her stamp on since moving there with her twins eight years ago. “The house was quite shabby with finishes and décor dating from the Eighties. It needed to be brought back to its original bright, clean, modern, Sixties aesthetic.” Having previously lived in a crumbling, Edwardian, semi-detached house, it was the space and light that first attracted Virginia to her current abode. “There is very little in the way of ‘original features’,” she explains. “The rooms are boxy and simple but there is a lot of glass. I also liked the fact that it had an open fireplace in the living room, not often found in houses of this period.