Profile

JUDITH WILSON has been a specialist interiors and design writer and stylist for over 20 years, including a six-year stint on Homes and Gardens, where she was Decorating Editor.  Since the arrival of her children, Cicely and Felix, she has pursued a successful freelance writing career.  She is a Contributing Editor for House & Garden, and has been a freelance contributor to many publications, including House & Garden, Telegraph Magazine, The Independent, Homes & Gardens, Living etc, Red, She, Junior, and BBC Homes & Antiques.

Her first book, Transforming the Interior (Conran Octopus), was published in 1998.  Judith is now the author of numerous books, including the best-selling Children’s Spaces (Ryland, Peters and Small), which has sold over 100,000 copies, Harmonious Home (RPS), 70,000 copies, Family Living (RPS), 68,000 copies, and Essential Home (RPS), 64,000 copies.

Her two latest books, both published in 2008, are The Natural Home and The Vintage Home (Jacqui Small).  Judith also lectures on Styling at the KLC School of Design.

Judith is a specialist in children’s rooms, family living, and how to achieve approachable, stylish decorative looks at home.  She has contributed to a number of radio and TV programmes, both as a style commentator and as the creator of live TV makeovers.  She lives in London with her husband, Anthony, and her children, age 13 and 11.  She is currently renovating her 1930s family house in Barnes.

Biography

Judith was born in Liverpool and early on realized that her twin passions were writing and design.  Whilst pursuing her nascent decorating ambitions in her bedroom in the 1970s (think orange, brown and big flowers), she also started to write from an early age.  She went on to study English Literature at Leicester University, then took a Masters Degree in 20^th Century English Literature at Warwick University in 1983.  She originally pursued a career in book publishing, before joining IPC Magazines as an interiors journalist.
After a six-year stint on Homes & Gardens, where she was Decorating Editor, in 1997 Judith went freelance to concentrate on a dual writing and styling career. Judith has written for many UK publications including House & Garden, Telegraph Magazine, The Independent, Homes & Gardens, Living etc, Red, Junior, and BBC Homes & Antiques.  She is a Contributing Editor to House & Garden, and writes a monthly designer profile for them.  Judith’s journalism, which ranges from profiles to shopping pages, house features to design articles, has also appeared in European and US magazines.

Conran Octopus published Judith’s first book, Transforming the Interior, in 1998.  Since then, she has written and numerous successful decorating titles.  Children’s Spaces (2001) has sold over 103,000 copies and editions are available in 11 countries.  For Ryland, Peters and Small, she has also written Essential Home (2002), Family Living (2003), Harmonious Home (2004), The Well-Organized Home (2005), Babies Rooms (2006), and Teen Zone (2007).  Jacqui Small has published Private Places (2005), and Judith’s two latest titles, The Natural Home and The Vintage Home (both 2008).  Judith was also the co-author with Sally Griffiths for The English House by Scriptum Editions (2004).
Judith lectures on Styling for the KLC School of Design and has been a guest speaker at a number of events, including the Daily Telegraph/House & Garden Fair, the Autumn Gift Fair and the Autumn Ideal Home show.  She has done a variety of television and radio work, including an interior design strand for This Morning with Richard and Judy - with a live makeover of a teenager’s bedroom - as well as slots on the UK Living Channel.

Judith is married with two children and lives in South West London.

Updated 28/02/2009