Kate Burt, a design journalist who, via her blog Your Home Is Lovely, brings frequent news stories and great affordable decorating ideas (go see her Early Learning Centre find) has given us all a gift today: evidence that her once pristine study…

…has become the stuff of the ultimate Real Reveal! Behold, old food pots, worryingly unsteady stacks of papers and wires aplenty (though I have to salute her Gilda poster).

We gave her a solid 7/10 for her efforts, to which she had this to say:

‘I KNOW I can do better than that. I can be a 10. I can…’

We can only look forward to seeing this in future.