Lederer refreshingly admits to having tidied up the pants before opening her home to the Independent. How many of these pieces do you read, and then come away wondering... do rich, arty people really live like this? Even though they have kids? Perhaps that's why I'm not as rich and arty as they are? Perhaps if I turned my home into a casual interpretation of the British museum - flotsam from my many trips across the subcontinent scattered with zero thought at all for my own image - and added whatever contemporary design trends will turn my place into a stomach-churning middle-class cliche within five years - then I could be richer and artier too. But Lederer's a refreshing change:

There's a lot of fake stuff - even a "Dufy" painted by my friend Brenda! We laid fake York stone on the terrace, and even the facade is fake.

Read it here.