House Tour: Pearl Lowe

The new episode of the podcast, The Great Indoors, is out today and today, for the first time, we have managed to bring you pictures and words so you can look or listen or, perhaps, do both. Sophie and I were thrilled to be invited to the Somerset home of Pearl Lowe, the singer turned designer, who let us rummage round every room to discover her decorating secrets.

Pearl first visited the house, which is near Frome, several years before she was able to buy it with her husband, Danny Goffey, the Supergrass drummer. Advised by a friend that she had found the perfect house for her, Pearl followed winding lane, which is almost track-like in parts, and suddenly rounded the corner to see a pretty stone house surrounded by fields. The owner was tobogganing down the garden slope.

Inside wasn't much warmer. There was no central heating and "we could see our breath" but it was out of their budget so, sadly, they had to leave. Over the years Pearl kept an eye on the house as it didn't sell and the…