A MUM has been told her home is "disgusting" after redecorating it with a 1940s style for just £3,000.
Josephina Finch even took inspiration from her nan's home to bring her interior dreams to life.
The 36-year-old has loved that era of décor since watching the TV show Royle Family as a child.
She has spent the last two years transforming her two-bed home with her partner, Chrissy Harrison, 35, a carpenter and builder.
Chrissy also loves velvet sofas, floral and doily curtains, and mahogany furniture.
Jospehina was able to overhaul her home for cheap by buying everything second hand.
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She loves trawling charity shops, car boot sales, Facebook marketplace and eBay for floral wallpaper, trinkets and old furniture.
The mum-of-three estimates she has spent a maximum of £3,000 on the house and says it is her "happy place"... despite strangers telling her it looks "disgusting".
"My nan started it off - it's quite old fashioned," the Canterbury-based make-up artist said. "It's nostalgia for me; my happy place.
"I started watching the Royle Family on TV and I was obsessed with that style.
"It's homely and old fashioned... I love 1940s style."
She believes she has "created magic in every room" with her old-fashioned decor.
Josephina loved her nan's house growing up and took comfort in its interior style.
She moved next door in February 2022 and has spent the last two years creating a vintage paradise for her forever home.
"I never liked anything from Ikea or Next, and I never buy anything new," she explained.
"Everything has a bit of a story."
Josephina found her 1955 three-piece sofa for £500 in North London and a wardrobe for her son's room for just £30 on Facebook Marketplace.
With Chrissy, the couple made their own kitchen from sanded down scaffold boards which they carved hearts into.
But it's Jospehina's 17-year-old twin daughters and 11-year-old son that aren't sure on her style.
"The twins hate it," she revealed. "They say it's 'old lady stuff'.
"But they wouldn't want me to change it - it's home."
Josephina has a floral staircase and curtains - taken from her nan's old home.
She loves finding little trinkets to fill up the house, such as 50p old photos of Victorian families, cigarette tins and foot powder from the war.
The make-up artist works from a cabin in her garden and says her clients always have a nice response when they see the inside of her house.
Some even compare it to Narnia.
But it's the internet trolls that have the largest and loudest opinions on her unqiue home.
"I get a lot of hate," Josephina shared. "They say it's disgusting.
"People say 'why have you decorated your house like a 90-year-old?'
"I don't care because I love it.
"I wouldn't want it to look like an Ikea catalogue."
