When Rebecca Lovatt started her Instagram account @myenglishcountrycottage five years ago, she didn’t even understand the app, she said, let alone expect to so quickly amass a 200K+ following of likeminded, country cottage loving friends who enjoy a cup of tea by the Aga and stories about daily life in a “crumbly old farmhouse” in the countryside.
Her plan was to start “something to do with interiors” so that when her children left the nest she would have a base to start to rule her own life again and create a “wonderful new excellent sparkly career”.
Pre-children, Rebecca described herself as a “fabulously unsuccessful actress” who also wrote comedy sketches, including working as a writer with Stephen Merchant pre-The Office. Gracefully and gratefully she says she bowed out of her “unshiny career” to create a home and family on the Suffolk/ Cambridgeshire border. Her children are now 14 and 12 and thanks to the success of her Instagram page and the subsequent magazine articles and interviews (radio and television), Rebecca has begun helping clients with their interior projects, styles homes and editorial features for interiors magazines as well as finding her writing fingers as a columnist on Preloved magazine.
We think she has found her calling… Let’s take a look inside Rebecca’s world!
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To learn more, please visit My English Country Cottage online and follow @myenglishcountrycottage via Instagram for ongoing inspiration. And thank you, Rebecca, for allowing us to dream within your world!
