MARK and I have been married 18 years.

I met him when I was living with my best friend. She said: "Let's go and see this band. There is a guy in it that you'll really like." I told her I wasn't interested; went along ... Love at first sight. That was it. Mark and I never spent a night apart for two years and then we got married. We moved to this house in Langside, on Glasgow's south side, 14 years ago. It's a Greek Thomson town house that was built circa 1877, and we live here with our teenage children, Mia and Jude.

We nearly moved to an old shooting lodge up by the Holy Loch instead. It was a beautiful house but I was pregnant with Jude at the time and when I went to view the lodge I thought: "What am I thinking of?" At that point I needed to be close to my mum to help me out with the kids as there was only two years between them.

So we started looking at properties closer to our old flat, which was two minutes from here. This was the first place that we saw and we went after it and got it.

It's an ongoing project because it needed so much work. Every feature had been ripped out; in the kitchen the ceilings had been lowered and it was the same upstairs in the bedrooms. We put in cast iron radiators which we picked up from salvage yards.

The kitchen is a lovely room because beautiful light comes in and then you close the shutters and get the fire on it makes for a lovely atmosphere.

If I didn't work as a make-up artist I would love doing up houses and furniture. I do like contemporary stuff, but our house is more shabby chic. The children have grown up here, they've had their friends round ... we are very sociable and have a lot of visitors, so the house is very much our home, with a nice, lived-in feel.

I've always had an interest in fashion, but I just kind of stumbled upon make-up artistry as a career.

I had gone down to London and completed a make-up course and when I came back to Glasgow I was very lucky. I knew a few people and got a lucky break.

I've done Paris Fashion week assisting Pat McGrath, who's a world leader in make-up artistry, and I've done Galliano and Dior shows. On the music side, I tour with Amy McDonald, whom I've worked with for years. I'm also doing make-up design on the Channel 4 quiz show, 15 To 1 one, and I'm going to be working on Outlander, the big HBO series being filmed in Scotland.

Music is a big part of our lives. My husband used to sell records. He is a vinyl fanatic so we have loads of vinyl that we've brought with us from each house move. Our collection has kind of covered our journey as a couple; pre-children and with the children. At one end of the room we have the record deck and the open fire and the armchair and people naturally gravitate towards that end and the old table and benches. The other half of the room is where I cook. Mark does a great spag bol and a fry-up, but I'm the cook.

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Records

The main part of our vinyl collection is in the kitchen. Some kids who were round at the weekend for my daughter's birthday party commented that we had so many books. My daughter burst out laughing and said: "That's vinyl!" My son has just bought a record deck so the family tradition of vinyl is carrying on. It's something that has a lot of value to us and has made for many a good night. People end up dancing in the kitchen, the table gets pushed back, Mark puts the vinyl on and it always turns into a great night.

Painting

This is by my brother Paul Bell, who is currently a contestant in the BBC's Big Painting Challenge, and I absolutely adore it. We took some pictures on our phones, of the kids in the garden at their cousin's house in London. It was a really hot day. The painting, from one of those photos, is called Lolly Envy because shows Mia in profile sooking on a lolly and her brother Jude with a slight scowl, in the background, saying: "Where's mine?" Some people think it's me because of the likeness between Mia and I.

Table

We've had the table since before the children were born. We all sit round it every night as a family for dinner which is really nice. It's had meals served on it and people dancing on it. Thank God it can't talk.

We are always cooking for people. When I was growing up my mum, Senga, was always throwing dinner parties - she was the life and soul - so my brothers and I were very fortunate, we were definitely educated in fine wine and food from a young age. My mum is in a care home now and I am always thinking about her, but particularly when I am cooking.

Antlers

I got these when I was on a fashion shoot on a beautiful estate near Inverness, where they used to film Monarch Of The Glen. I was there for a few days working on a cashmere shoot. I asked the gamekeeper if he could he find me antlers, and needless to say he came down off the hill with antlers for me. They are always a talking point.

Log fire

I love having an open fire. We've always had one but never in the kitchen and I love it in here. Everyone is drawn to it; people tend to congregate around it. Mark plays guitar so there on many a night he sits by the fire, playing along with friends. This spot is definitely the heart of the house.