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The TV presenter, Glassette CEO and Hoste founder gives us a private tour of her East London abode.
If you weren’t obsessed with Laura Jackson before, rest assured we’ve found your new home interiors heartthrob.
The broadcaster might be best known in the UK for her TV hosting gigs on the likes of Ready or Not and Take Me Out: The Gossip, but for several years we’ve looked to Jackson for inspiration when it comes to hosting, homeware and interiors.
After all, the entrepreneur is the HOSTEing podcast host and has just co-founded her very own homeware marketplace, Glassette.
Jackson and her husband, photographer Jon Gorrigan, bought their home in Forest Gate, east London in 2015 and ever since they've been curating a unique space dedicated to market finds from trips abroad to the likes of Brussels and Mexico, bespoke designs (wait until you see the curves of their tadelakt shower) and entertaining with loved ones.
‘I don't really have a styling technique,’ Jackson tells ELLE UK during a guided tour of her home. ‘I love stuff. I don't buy a lot, but I just love everything that I have. I have an emotional connection to everything, whether it's this gorgeous paperweight or this ridiculous shell.’
As for where she sources her favourite secondhand finds, including £50 eBay chairs and a vintage Sascal Studio bamboo light, the mother-of-two says it’s important to keep an eye out online for your favourite pieces.
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‘I love eBay,’ she says. ‘I'm always on eBay. And I think a really top tip is to set alerts for things that you really like because once you've missed something, the devastation is real. I mean, as they say, “One man's trash is another man's treasure.”’
A few moments inside Jackson’s home and you can see the renovations haven’t been a means to an end, rather a way to express her and Gorrigan’s superb artistry and imagination.
In the living room you’ll find a bright painting of ships by New Zealand artist Rob Tucker (‘I basically hunted him down on Instagram and sent him a million DMs,’ admits Jackson), blooms from Uncut Stems and Arbala emerald green candlesticks set between walls painted in an archive Farrow & Ball paint colour, Fawn.
‘I love eBay. I'm always on eBay'
The open-plan kitchen, meanwhile, is a celebration of the outdoors and entertaining, from a three-metre-long dining room table and a glassware cupboard filled with tumblers and flutes from holidays abroad and sold on Glassette to travertine tops to reflect the light airy space to contrast with the industrial Gaggenau hob and a pantry cupboard filled with Jackson’s favourite cookery books.
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Jackson’s office – or Glassette’s current HQ, as she calls it – is as much a workspace haven as it is a place for relaxation. On the bookshelves sit copies of ELLE Decoration and photography books atop stacks of LPs from the likes of Tame Impala and Bella and Sebastian.
‘We really wanted to have everything vintage down here or items that were built to last, so there’s a bit of a kind of pillar of sustainability,’ she says when talking us through her newly-installed Fred Rigby curved table, Tolar chairs and Ali Herson mugs.
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Ushering us upstairs we were surprised to find a spacious, brightly-lit bathroom. On stepping into the space you can’t help but be confronted with the gigantic tadelakt-built shower that came about after the owners knocked two rooms to create one huge family bathroom.
‘There are lots of sharp angled walls so I wanted to create a shower that was the opposite to that and had curves,’ Jackson notes, pointing out the window arch for toiletries. From the Volga Linen Bistro curtains and the secondhand sanitary features, to the working fireplace, you can’t help but instantly feel at home and cosy in the space.
Watch Laura Jackson's My Style, My Space with ELLE UK above.