For Cyndia Harvey, moving into her own place three years ago signalled a welcomed transformation. Sent to the charity shop were her old things and a new chapter began, one in which a sense of ownership and feeling settled has, in Harvey’s words, “changed my life”. At her flat on a quiet mews in Brockley, south east London, Harvey, a hairstylist to the likes of Frank Ocean and FKA Twigs, reflects on the psychology of home, taking time with interiors and why she’s got a thing for silence.
Cyndia: “I’m so not a city girl. I can barely go to Oxford Street for an hour without getting an excruciating migraine from the overload of information, noise and people!
“I grew up in Jamaica until I was 11 and then moved to the UK. I’ve always lived in south east London, and I like it here because it’s much quieter than other parts of the city. I was lucky with this place to find a really quiet flat, on a quiet street, in a quiet area.
“I moved around a lot when from ages 11 to 15, and only spent maybe six months in any one place. Then, when I moved out aged 16, I lived in hostels, temporary accommodation and then a council flat, which I had for 10 years, before moving here. Moving around meant I never felt settled or that comfortable in the places I’d been living in.
“I was going through a kind of stagnant period of my life, and I just knew I had to switch places. I was stuck in a rut of going to work and coming home, and stuck in my mind, my environment. This place changed all that.
“I think moving can really shift your whole mentality, and I’m sure it’s a sort of molecular energy type thing: something moves out of you when you move out of a space.
“This is the first place that’s really felt like home, the first place I’ve felt I could really express myself through the interiors. I didnt take anything with me from my last flat, zero – I literally abandoned that part of my life.
“I moved into this shell with almost nothing and lived super minimally for almost a year. I remember the first few people who came to visit were like, What is this?! I just had a duvet on the floor with pillows, and that was my little sofa. But it was really nice – I was so ready to shed my skin and so it was refreshing not to have any stuff.
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