How lifestyle guru Louise Roe decorates her London home for Christmas [Video]

03:00 EST 14 Dec 2024, updated 03:00 EST 14 Dec 2024

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.’

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).