I'VE lived in this Grade B-listed one-bedroomed flat for five years but my partner Sean has been here for nine.

It's in Glasgow's west end and was built as a church in 1912, but later became a bathroom showroom after it was deconsecrated. Around 15 years ago, the building was converted into flats. Ours is in what was the main body of the church and our lounge windows look out to the front. There is no graveyard, thankfully, but because it was a church, there are lots of windows, so there's plenty of light.

This is our living room and kitchen, and it's also the place where I started my cushion-making business. I used to do a lot of sewing in here, but that became a bit impractical. I'd have to tidy everything away at the end of the working day, and Sean, who's quite tidy, would be constantly asking: "What's this thread on the floor?" Now I have a studio, which means if I haven't finished working on something, I can leave it out to return to the following day. If I lived in a big house I would prefer to have a home workshop. Or perhaps one of those nice wooden workshops in the garden - with heating, of course, and a mini bar.

These days, the room is more about listening to music, reading books and cooking. I get a bit obsessed with the cooking. Sean doesn't have to do anything: his lunch just appears and his dinner appears.

When I was growing up my mum cooked a lot. She used to make cakes on Sunday evenings and I loved them. My dad did quite a physical job so he would always want a big dinner with lots of meat when he came home. I didn't like meat so didn't really enjoy the food. I was vegetarian for 15 years, and as a vegetarian it's better to cook your own food because otherwise it is really boring. I have now started to eat fish, and I enjoy cooking it.

Our home is a sanctuary, although we do have friends over occasionally for dinner and then I do the whole thing: starter, main course and dessert, but usually it is just me and Sean. When he's out it's me in with the cats. They are brothers called Morris and Louis and we got them from a friend who could no longer keep them.

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Linear print

Berlin is one of my favourite cities. The history is fascinating and I like the architecture, some of which is quite brutal. A lot of artists live there now and when I visited the city for my 30th birthday, I bought this print at one of the many flea markets. This guy was selling his own artwork and it was Japanese style but an architectural print. He told me he was inspired by Japanese Manga.

Film poster

Sean's sister Karen Guthrie is an artist and a filmmaker. She and her business partner Nina Pope own a company called Somewhere which makes documentaries and community art projects. They made a documentary about a shut-down shoe factory in East Tilbury called Bata. Bata was headquartered in the Czech Republic and the pair took former employees on a coach trip to visit the main factory in Czech Republic to see what the owner's vision for the company had been. Before they made the film, they set up an art installation which was a fake travel agency and people who had worked at the shoe factory came in to discuss the idea of a coach trip. This poster was part of that art installation.

Larousse Gastronomique

I've got lots of cookery books, but this one is like an encyclopaedia of gastronomy. It's a huge book full of French cooking techniques so if you have some weird ingredient you can look it up. It has the answers to everything foodwise. Sean bought it for one of my birthdays because I'm always cooking. I enjoy sitting flicking through it. With the internet it's so easy to just look things up but it's nice to have an actual physical book. It feels like an extravagance to have an encyclopedia about food.

Cushions

These are some of my own creations. They are my favourites. I started making cushions four years ago. I had a sewing machine before that and did little projects for people, making bags and things for relatives. Then I took some evening classes, just for fun. The course that really started things was a textile design course at Cardonald College. I learned how to do a free-motion embroidery technique, which is what I use now on my cushions. I love animals so it was natural for me to use them on the cushions but then I got the idea of using images of people's pets and that has really taken off.

Footstool

A lot our furniture is a bit unusual because I enjoy buying from antique shops. This footstool is from the 1960s and I love the style of that era; the shapes and colours. Sean oiled the legs and it looks really nice now.

Coffee table

This is another 1960s piece of furniture which I love. It's got a graphic print on the top which is what attracted me to it. When I bought it I didn't know anything about it but I looked it up and the print is in the style of John Piper who was a painter and graphic artist in the 1960s. I did graphics before I began to work in textiles so it's my first love.