Home Sweet Hoarder
Ruth Paxton invites you in to her fairytale hoarder's house.
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I live in a dilapidated old detatched house with my fiancee and my close friend Kim. There are 6 rooms downstairs and 3 upstairs and we have a lovely back green.
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When I was about 11 and getting into proper films, I started to cover both sides of my bedroom door with millions of pictures from films and of actors cut from magazines, so I had lots of Jack Nicholson and my hero at the time, Robert De Niro mixed with Jayne Mansfield and Monroe.
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I'm reeeeally into taxidermy at the moment, but it's hard to find good quality stuff that isn't extortionate. I love religious iconography, I've got crucifixes all over the joint but I'm not religious - some people find the heavy Catholic decoration a bit much. I like odd Victorian objects too and I like the ornaments your Granny would have in her cabinet, in fact, I'm always tempted to be light-fingered in old peoples' houses!
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I'm anally tidy. I suppose it's organized mess to some people... I can't sleep if there's any mess. I'm frighteningly anal about it, everything at a right angle type of person! I pretty much have my wardrobe in theme and colour order, but I ran out of space a while ago and now things just get hung wherever there's a hook or ledge!... My dream would be to have the wardrobe she has in Clueless and I'd have all my bras and pants on clippy hangers.
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