Vogue Williams reveals the home habits she swears by – and the chores she can’t stand

The dog usually comes running first, then swiftly followed by a child. So I'm hugging and smiling at everybody.

I’m a real morning person – and we're all together every morning. We make breakfast. I make three types of eggs every morning. We all sit together and have breakfast and then we walk to school. Even though it’s very quick, I probably love the mornings the most.

I’m going to say my happiest place is probably our house in Howth (in Dublin) where I grew up. I love being there. And just sitting together really is my favourite thing to do.

Always a book, an eye mask, lots of creams and lip balms and earplugs.

Anything with stripes. I'm also always dressed in stripes, the kids are always dressed in stripes. It's rubbing off on my husband; he's always in a stripe. We're doing up our new house and I'm planning for one room to be a fully striped room. I'm going to try and just stick to one room.

My absolute favourite shop, which is the biggest treat, is my friends’ Boss Studios. They started making furniture and they are just, my god. So I’ll get the odd piece for my birthday or for Spenny (Spencer Matthews, Vogue’s husband), I like buying him something from them for his birthday. So I love that but that’s very high-end furniture. But I also love EZ Living but I don’t know if you have that, I think it’s called something else over here. Dunelm’s also amazing. I’m partial to a little walk around IKEA like everybody. I love OKA. I just spend an awful lot of time looking at furniture.

I can’t bear a mess. And it’s not in a good way either. But I can’t stand people just leaving stuff. I love for things to just have order. But I get annoyed because of that.

I do have a tendency to always want to change stuff. So even when I’m finished - like we finished our house in Howth - I’ll then think, maybe I’ll put glass doors in there. It’s kind of a never-ending project for me because I just enjoy it so much.

I kind of love washing clothes. I like sorting them into their piles and washing them. But I don't like hanging them up, so it’s solely washing.

Ironing is one of my least favorite jobs – or changing my sheets. And I love having fresh sheets, so they’re changed every week, but it’s honestly the worst.

It feels like we spend our entire weekend cleaning because of the kids. But I suppose that's just the way with kids, isn't it? So our routine is just: make a massive mess, clean up, then we'll have lunch and make a massive mess.

I would say I'm a good host. But because we have a very open door policy, we always have people over, so if you're not a new guest, I'm happy for you to help yourself – I can't always be getting stuff for you. I have somebody who would come over three or four times a week, and I'm not like waiting on them. They’re now a member of the household.

I do bits and bobs. This morning, my son was like: ‘Dad, would you put the new trampoline net on?' because the old one was broken, and I had ordered a new one. So I said, ‘No, I think Mummy will do that'. I know how to use the drill. I don't mind certain bits of DIY, but I don't like painting. I painted a room and I thought it would never end.

On the rare occasion I'm at home on my own, which is such an unusual thing for our house, I just have a coffee or read a book. I'm definitely getting better at relaxing and not doing stuff every second of the day.