I've put Something Kinda Ooooh into Girls Aloud homes

Nicola Roberts wanted a trendy, hotel feel while Sarah Harding opted for a funky, club look. Step forward Susan White, the interiors guru to the stars...Spending most of the year touring in the UK's most successful girl band ever, staying in hotels night after night, you want to create a lovely home to come back to - if only you had the time.Girls Aloud's Nicola Roberts and Sarah Harding had that problem so called in architectural designer Susan White of Phoenix Interior Design to give their new homes Something Kinda Ooooh, as one of their hits says.In the past 18 months, Nicola, 23, bought a £500,000, four-bedroom new-build detached house on a development in Stone near Dartford, Kent, and Sarah, 27, a one-bedroom maisonette in Kentish Town, North London.Nicola's house is classical with some quirky contemporary features, whereas Sarah's flat is an extension of her party-loving lifestyle, and includes ideas from bars, restaurants and clubs. Susan, 40, met Nicola while working for the developer on the site she bought from.She has also revamped the former house of EastEnders star Patsy Palmer in Chigwell, chef Aldo Zilli's place in London and Des Lynam's house in Chiswick.Next up is the home of Tom Felton, who plays Draco Malfoy in the Harry Potter films. He lives close to Susan's office in Ockley, near Dorking, Surrey.Susan trained as an interior architect at Leicester University, and has run her company for the past five years with husband James MacCallum, 36.She looks at the function of each room and will move walls, plumbing and electrics to get the right look and feel.Because Nicola's house was a new build, Susan had a blank canvas and after three meetings they'd agreed on the look, the budget - around the £50,000 mark - and a work schedule of just three weeks.'As Nicola was so precise and knew what she wanted the work was very quick and straightforward,' says Susan, who lives in an old hunting lodge and works with her core staff of nine out of a glamorous conversion of a former milking parlour.Chandeliers, funky sofas, Perspex egg chairs dangling from the ceiling and oak beams create a fantastic selling space for her talent.Nicola's house has 12ft high ceilings and Susan added drama in the master bedroom and dressing room upstairs with chandeliers from MP Electricals and lots of abstract, colourful artwork by the photographer Richard Thorne.The four bedrooms were reduced to two, with a large dressing room and - for someone who spends much of her time working out dance routines - a gym. 'Nicola is young and vibrant, but likes her home comforts, too.' The stairs have a colourful, stripy Crucial Trading carpet (www.crucial-trading. com) and upstairs the floors are a mix of cream carpets and wood. In the master bedroom - about 20ft by 20ft - a huge picture of a rose hangs above the bed 'for the wow factor'.The walls are white, and with windows 10ft high there's a lot of light. The deep padded white leather headboard and white pillowcases and sheets are complemented by some ebony woodwork by Gerald Lewis, one of the craftsmen Susan often uses, and a dark throw.In the guest room there is a deep velvet headboard studded with diamante and more huge windows. In the wood-floored gym Susan has put a floor-to-ceiling mirror and a picture of Kate Moss.The dressing room has the same dimensions as the master bedroom with its focal point a huge mirrored, double-sided dressing table the size of most people's dining tables.Fitted wardrobes are crammed with clothes and a very large shoe/handbag collection. There is a plasma-screen TV, a big toffee-coloured shaggy rug and an armchair for Nicola's stylist.'Lighting was paramount as Nicola often has to do her make-up at home before heading off for a video shoot or TV show. We put in two crystal droplet chandeliers and some free-standing lamps,' says Susan, who is opening a new office in King's Road, London, next month.The fact that Nicola, who lives in the house with her pug dog Elvis, has spent so much time in hotels in the past seven years is evident in the colour scheme of rusts,'Nicola has a good eye and knew what she wanted. We've created a cosy feel which is classic with a contemporary twist,' says Susan.Through Nicola, Susan met Sarah, who had already started work on the maisonette in the top two floors of a converted school she shares with the DJ Tom Crane and two Persian cats.Susan had to 'pick up the pieces' and based the look around a huge artwork by Lucy MacLauchlan.'There was only one place that it could go, so we put it up in the living area and worked off and around it,' says Susan of the artwork depicting dreamlike women's faces.
Whereas Nicola knew just what she was after, Sarah has a more magpie, eclectic taste and would often come to Susan with an idea after a night out.
'Sarah would say she'd seen this and that at various places and we had to work out where - like the back-lit light in the bathroom which she'd seen in Nobu restaurant. You can't buy those so we had to make our own,' says Susan.As you enter the flat there's a double-height living room with bay windows, a kitchen, utility and wet room. The smart, high-tech kitchen - with doors that open when you wave at them - and granite surfaces was ordered from RWK (rwkkuechen.de), Germany.'It's incredible, beautiful German craftsmanship,' says Susan. In the lounge, large kidney-shaped sofas from Berkshire-based Indigo Designs (indigodesigns.co.uk) are covered in moleskin with multicoloured scatter cushions and Abbott & Boyd throws (abbottandboyd.co.uk).The floor is dark walnut and there's a coffee table from Ecco Trading (eccotrading.com). Fake cowhide wallpaper covers one wall and there's a circular dining table and chairs. Two pumpkin stools, one cerise the other plum, provide extra seating.Because space is quite tight, glass sliding doors lead to the utility room. In the wet room are slate tiles and a Crosswater shower tap (crosswater.co.uk) which lights up blue for cold and red for hot.There is also a light that comes on when you wave at it. Sarah likes her gadgets.Upstairs is the mezzanine area overlooking the lounge, with a snug and sofabed for Tom to crash on when he gets home late from work.He's taken down the hanging ceiling chair and put up a punch bag in its place. In the master bedroom is a seating area and 6ft bed reached via four, individually lit steps.There's a zebra-print chaise longue, a vast cupboard for Sarah's shoes, lots of mirrors and a TV above the walnut frame. White Company bedding and throws (thewhitecompany.com) complete a funky room.The dressing room, with wardrobes lining both sides of the narrow space, and en suite bathroom are off the bedroom.The bathroom has stainless-steel seats, dark porcelain tiles, glass sinks, an aqua plasma TV and some clever lighting. 'It has a very clubby feel,' says Susan.
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