AJ Odudu Opens The Door To Her Vibrant, Joyful London Home | ELLE UK

Not only does AJ Odudu have an enviable CV of television presenting gigs, including becoming the new co-host of Big Brother, and proven her physical prowess in boxing in Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins, but she’s also a dab hand when it comes to DIY and interior design.

Above, the TV presenter invites ELLE UK into her London home and inside her walk-in wardrobe, in our latest episode of My Style My Space.

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Flavor I’ve got it for days in abundance if anyone’s ever caught joking in my kitchen follow the step-by-step guide call 911 but don’t call but don’t call 911 call [Laughter] 999 hello I’m ad Doo and welcome to my episode of My Style Myspace with luk

Come on in take your shoes off first so this is my favorite room to host the kitchen and for the longest time actually I had no storage all of my kitchen is on the opposite side it’s all integrated and in every single cup there’s something the boiler the

Electric meter so this is actually very very important and very heavily used with pots and pans and uglier things are in the bottom tued away and this is me bar area I mean it’s fully soft and I’m ready to I’m ready to horse like now I’m

Ready to horse now immediately I’m a bit of a champagne papy there’s always champagne in the fridge and then I’ve got it on the Shelf to restock restock restock constantly um but me happy hour cocktail of choice is a margarita absolutely 10 out of 10 I mean the whole

Thing actually cuz I’ve integrated all of this into the wall but essentially here is my hack s shelf after shelf after shelf yes I had to sit down and meticulously measure and measure again but it made it easier for me to maneuver things I could I could

Move the shelves if they wer in the right space as opposed to if I got a carpenter around they want to be so specific and I’m like I don’t know my dining room chairs are my favorite upcycled piece I was inspired to do these chairs by an incredible artist

Called yinka elori and I followed his work and couldn’t afford his chairs and so I sort of saw some fabric and painted these chairs all by myself re-upholstered them and I think I’ve done a good job this is um from the big breakfast the channel brought me a bottle of big breakfast personalized

Champagne the champagne’s been drank but I kept itting if I was going to Rel it anywhere else in this house I might have knocked this wall down and had it open planned that being said where would I have been able to hang my chalk ins sign

Did you know that in New York all the restaurants that I was entering anyway have to legally have these chalking signs up and I went to this one incredible Mexican restaurant called enada in Brooklyn and I love it and I love the chalking sign got in touch with the

Illustrator kindly did this for me this is a bench you can sit on it and again it was one of those pieces that I actually didn’t really love but it was cheap and cheerful so what better way to upcycle it than to just cover it in a

Nice fabric which is exactly what I did I got this Nigerian print from depford Market in southeast London I’ve had this for over 5 years now and it stayed it it’s had loads of wine spill on it you know I love being really playful with colors and patterns in my home so it

Really spoke to me I like to find the fun in absolutely everything that’s mundane or seems like a step bystep thing that we go through I have a cup of tea every single day I have a slice of sauce every single day and so these two

Items me SAA and Kettle are much used and much loved and especially as they from poodle and blonde and one of the co-founders is my May really Williams so I see this I see her and I see fun four and a half years ago I bought this place

And what attracted me to it was that it’s so light we’re in the living room now it’s got three large sash windows which are absolutely adored and from there I was like it’s a bit of me this growing up and even now me Mom absolutely loves photographs I just

Wanted to um put loads of photos of happy memories up here with a dash of typography and yeah and be reminded of home welcome to my hallway I absolutely love it number one on my feet is me favorite color me pride and joy me bright orange carpet um I love like

Blinds that feel like pieces of Art and I just thought that art should be refle reflected on the wall and these are Pieces by an incredible illustrator called hatti Stewart she kindly sent them to me and she left a note saying AJ these are really delicate pieces so

Please take them straight to the framers and two years later I got them framed thank God uh they are such good quality that they stood the test of time all rolled up but now they do take pride and joy on me wall they’re really fun playful and reflect all of the colors

That I’ve got around my home I feel like so many rooms provide a bit of dopamine as soon as you walk into the hallway it’s got bright orange carpet it’s like boom you’re in my house and then you come upstairs you’ve got a lot of textures

Patterns and a little bit of the outdoor coming in with all of me Fage I mean I feel like this is the home of happiness joy and it’s an instant do mean hit room to room when I first moved in I just knew that I had to

Have a dressing room it was literally me dream so this is where I do my fittings with my sales this exactly is where my mom sits down has a cup of tea there and just judges me me outfits no I don’t like that one don’t like this one this

Is the one this is the one um so I love it I might not be Kim Kardashian but I can you know we can we can have a walking wardrobe I think organization can be really stylish first of all I wanted to have an open wardrobe so that

I could see exactly how many things I had um and actually it’s so interesting as soon as you see everything you realize oh my gosh I don’t need another vest I don’t need another handbag I don’t need another set of shoes or whatever I mean it does stop you but at

Least you can visualize what needs to say I want these to go storage boxes are the way forward for me that’s how I maximize my space I’ve got a box literally filled with rigs just keep on shoving them down having doors that slide open and closed is actually an

Amazing way to maximize storage space because you can hide all sins and then keep just a pretty on display I would save this in a fire and it was a present from my agent at the end of 2022 I’ve just had the best year ever I don’t know why I just wouldn’t

Spend that much money on a bag so when um someone else did I happily accepted thank you this will be coming with me look come on this is my live laugh love picture of this room it’s true though I do love it everything that’s wrong with you I had

This cupboard when I first moved in which was just groy he had nothing in it and then I put a sensored light in I put loads of shelves in and I’ve made my own walk-in shoe cup heels are the shoes that best represent me I mean come on

And nor than last we go out we will totter all the cobbles in order to have our heels on and have a good night out and it’s no different now that I’m a TV presenter these are the shoes that I wore to the fashion Awards last year which were stunning and actually very

Comfortable these St lant shoes are the shoes that I wore to Horse comic belief earlier this year and these shoes are the most painful shoes I’ve ever wore can you C up with these these luiton shoes are wraparound bright red stunning and I actually wore these to me

Christing luon himself guess where I met him Liverpool and here’s where I have been cooking up all of my big brother looks my s’s comes in here and we try try and try again and have them all hung up so this is as tidy as you’ll ever see this

Wardrobe there’s not a single look in this wardrobe that I’m actually going to wear for Big Brother you’ll have to watch and see welcome to my bedroom I wanted this to feel really relaxing Zen and actually my digital free zone however I have just put an office space

In the corner because it’s a liest point in me home really it’s all self facing so I get up sometimes go and feel like a real boss and I actually had this headboard reupholstered the Fabrics from Harley quinnn and I got a matching Fabric in the pillow cases and the

Curtains as well it’s a bit of a move from what I’m usually into it’s really kit and I got the wallpaper from Harley Quinn as well it just reminded me of staying in um a hotel a country Hotel nighttime routines I’ve got a few I’ve got this pillow my which I absolutely

Love it’s called The Deep Sleep peo generally I’m a terrible sleeper my mind is constantly racing so I uh try and make this a digital free as on as possible have low lighting by just switching on my orange lamp and then I do all of that smells of lavender it’s

Gorgeous I set my Lumi alarm clock because the days are getting so much darker I hate waking up in the dark I’ll light a candle spray my pillow get into bed read a book I tend to read two pages and then I’m asleep and then I wake up again cuz the lamp’s

On it’s a cycle one of my favorite books at the moment too much by Tom Allen he’s a really good mate of mine but I remember reading this on Miami Beach how luxurious there’s a lot of uh poignant hilarious moments in it it’s a story about all of the funny things that he’s

Learned from his dad who passed away but it’s so joyous and so uplifting at the same time um and there’s talks of grief and the highs and lws of life and that’s what I love about this book but I’ve also got other books that um talk about

Love bit more self-help little book of confidence and stories um it’s a real range on this bookshelf and uh for whatever mood I’m in at night is whatever mood I’m taking to bed with me oh it’s been lovely having you around thanks for popping in come back anytime

But for now see you peace out bye