House Tour | Faye Toogood

Hello. Welcome to our home. Can’t wait to show you around. Hello again. This is our front door with a skull knocker that we’ve had on every house we’ve ever owned. This is our entrance hall that we wanted to feel like an English woodland. This is a Toogood coat made entirely of marble. We wanted this home to reflect our British heritage, while mixing it with modern interventions. I’m an obsessive collector. So there’s always lots of things around the house. Lots of English Delft. This is our dining room. It looks particularly good at night because we just light the candles and the open fire. This coat was the genesis of my fashion brand. We painted 49 of them and hung them in the streets of Covent Garden. This is where I arrange flowers that have been grown in the garden. The room also holds my collection of creamware. This is a desk I’ve designed, and I share it with Matt. We met 25 years ago, and some of these postcards date back to that time. This is the kitchen. It’s a traditional English kitchen with an Aga, Plain English units and quarry tiles on the floor. We’re on the landing, and this is my shelf of maquettes. Some make it into production, and some don’t. This one made it. In the kids’ bathroom, there’s an hand-painted wallpaper. In the children’s bedrooms, it’s important that they’re the artists, and they get to paint their own canvases. The handcrafted oak four-poster bed is made by my friend Max Rollitt. We wanted our bathroom to feel very elemental. So we used a really deep-veined marble, a beautiful bath and a collection of shells. Here we are in our secret dressing room. I like the refinement of this 18th-century Chinoiserie cabinet with the rawness of this brick sculpture. Thanks for coming. It’s been a pleasure to have you. Bye for now!