Adwoa Aboah's Maximalist London Bedroom Is Her Cosy Cocoon

WORDS SARAH HARRIS

Photography VIVEK VADOLIYA

My Space: Adwoa Aboah’s Maximalist Bedroom is her Cosy Cocoon

EE72 Editorial Director Sarah Harris steps inside the rooms that ground cultural figures, revealing the spaces that inspire, recharge, and feel most like home.

“I love my bedroom. I worked on my house with interior designer Beata Heuman. She really is amazing and it was very much a collaborative project. There were these David Hicks references that I had — especially for my bedroom — that I’d always envisioned. I’m such a fan of everything he did; that kind of maximalist, repeated pattern idea, and so we matched the curtains with the wallpaper and we designed a weird 1960s-print carpet. Even though decoratively it’s quite loud, it feels so calm and cosy here, it’s like being in a cocoon.

“My boyfriend Daniel is a minimalist and even he loves it. I’m a collector (or a hoarder): My dressing table is antique and it’s covered in crystals and photos in old frames that I’ve had since I was a teenager. There are pictures of my godfather who passed away, friends who are like family, my parents, Polaroids from when we were younger, memories from ‘Top Boy’ and letters that mean something to me. I never want my space to feel stuffy or pretentious and I think I get that from my childhood home, which was always full of people.

“We always ate meals together, we were never shut away in our rooms or hid away from our parents, we all enjoyed being together. But I never had a TV in my room and I always wanted one. I said, ‘When I’m a grown-up, I’m going to have a TV in my room,’ and so now I do. But I hate the way they look, so we built this amazing cupboard that hides it.

“On the weekend Daniel and I will watch ‘Too Much’ before bed. I love just getting into bed, but I will forever be a night owl. I try to go to bed earlier, but it’s usually around midnight. Since having my daughter, Shy, it’s all change these days. My girl sleeps really well though, I probably get up at around 7:30 a.m., sometimes she sleeps until 9 a.m. I remember when she was tiny, we lived in this bedroom; I breastfed, we all slept in the bed together, and her crib was here in our room for a long time. I loved being in that bubble.”

Adwoa Aboah
LONDON

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