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WORK/LIFE
Ltd nearly 6 years ago. Then I was contacted
by a production company to be a judge on
Scotland’s Home of the Year!
MY 9-TO-5 THE BEST PART OF MY JOB IS…
I love all aspects of my job but I’m never
Interior designer and judge on hit BBC happier than when drawing up designs for
show Scotland’s Home of the Year, Anna construction, that moment when much
Campbell-Jones, talks us through a day discussed concepts start to become realised is
in her life. always exciting.

MY MOST MEMORABLE CAREER MOMENT
IS…
Anna Every job feels like an achievement. I suppose
Campbell-Jones my most memorable career moment would
be having reached a point after 30 years in the
business where I could be an interior design
Interior designer and judge on a TV show.
TV judge
AFTER WORK I…
Image by Andrew Jackson Unsurprisingly I am quite a homebody, I love
@cursetheseeyes
nothing better than cooking for my partner,
friends and family and all of us sitting at the
WHERE DO YOU CALL HOME? table talking ’til the wee small hours. After
I live in a main door tenement flat with an a long day at work I love to snuggle up with
epic 10m long hall in the heart of Glasgow’s my cat and my tapestry work. My designs are
West End, it’s been my home for 22 years and based on photos I have taken of accidentally
Image by Steven McLaren
I absolutely would not live anywhere else, in beautiful urban decay.
any case my sons have forbidden me from
ever moving! The wonderful thing about a IF I WASN’T AN INTERIOR DESIGNER, I’D
Glasgow tenement is that they have such MY MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES ARE… SHOTY Christmas special which is ridiculously HAVE BEEN…
great bones, you can really do anything with I work on my own so I do everything from exciting. When I was a child I really wanted to be an
the interiors. Mine has gradually morphed design consultation, detailed design drawings actor, I did get the lead role in a David Puttnam
from minimalist monochrome to maximalist and specification and where applicable I GOT MY JOB… film that was broadcast on Channel 4 but I soon
colour explosion. I love being so close to the project management, although I have been I left school in 1987 and did a foundation found out it wasn’t as glam as I thought it would
River Kelvin as well as to the bars, shops and doing less of that recently due to filming course in London that helped me to confirm be and decided aged 13 that I wanted to go to
restaurants on my doorstep. commitments. my passion for interior design, I then went art school and become a designer instead.
to Glasgow School of Art to do a degree
MY DAY STARTS WITH… A TYPICAL WORKING DAY INVOLVES… in the subject. After I graduated I moved WHAT’S THE BEST PIECE OF CAREER
My alarm goes off just before 7, I make a One day I might be designing a bespoke back down to London to work for various ADVICE YOU’VE BEEN GIVEN?
cup of tea and start contacting the brilliant kitchen, the next I might be on site checking commercial interior design practices for 10 The best piece of advice I was given was by
tradespeople I work with. I’m not a stalker! progress on an extension or talking to a years, designing everything from chains of my tutor at Hounslow College who suggested
This is the best time to speak to them before newly launched textile designer about their shops to underground trains. When my first I apply to Glasgow School of Art, everything
they are up ladders or under floors, so we can products. I now conduct design consultations boy was born we moved back to Glasgow and wonderful that has happened in my life since
see what they need and plan the day. Then via Zoom which has worked incredibly well. In I started teaching part time at the old alma then started with that decision.
breakfast and it’s time to start communicating amongst this I have regular communication mater as well as starting my residential interior
with clients and suppliers or working on the with TV folk, it’s certainly never boring. We are design business. This has taken various forms
latest design scheme. currently planning and casting homes for a over the years, I set up as Habitus Design For more from Anna, visit habitus.design.

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