Unforgettable Absolutely Fabulous moments that interiors fans will love

"It takes more than a carefully placed bottle of olive oil and some balsamic vinegar to make a kitchen, darling." - Edina Monsoon

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Praise be! Our favourite fabulous fashionistas are back in our lives with their incredible outfits and cutting putdowns.

In celebration of Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie we've been reminiscing about some of the funniest moments from the TV series - and of course, Edina's amazing Holland Park house!

Ever the fashion victim, Eddy's home changes as often as her outfits and is almost as much a part of the show as the cast or the cigarette dangling from Patsy's lips. With that in mind, here are a few of our favourite Absolutely Fabulous interiors moments, sweetie.

Door handle

Edina

: I want modern. But not what modern was, post-modern. But what it is. Just new. I just want what it will be. You know, when you're at the dentist and there's like that chair and cling-clang, the big light comes down and you just spit and spit. The thing you spit in, that bowl, that's the sort of look I want.

Patsy

: A sort of ultra-modern spittoon.

Everything about this episode is perfect and not that far fetched to a serious interior obsessive. Edina gets a chance to remodel her kitchen after Patsy falls asleep with a cigarette and wrecks the joint.

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Edina's notoriously high fashion sensibilities and raging self esteem issues make it impossible for her to decide on a style but she remembers a door handle in New York that she quite liked. Patsy and Edina take a day trip on Concorde to the Big Apple and find the door handle in The Four Seasons Hotel.

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She snaps a Polaroid for the mood board before heading out to explore the sights and Edina gets her naval pierced by a not at all unsanitary establishment. They return to find Saffy has redecorated the kitchen in a rustic style with cheery yellow and blue accents, and that Eddy has missed her daughter's birthday #motheroftheyear.

Minimalism

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Just as Ab Fab manages to skewer the fashion industry, the world of interior design does not get off lightly either.
Eddy is constantly renovating her house in Holland Park - NOT Shepherd's Bush as she'll correct anyone who queries it. She calls in Bettina, an interior decorator with a militant attitude to minimalism played to perfection by Miranda Richardson, who promptly removes every object in the kitchen leaving a pure white box. Unfortunately, she also takes out the stairs.

Edina's ever-changing bedroom

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The beauty of Eddy's amazing house is that it's SO of it's time and changes as often as La Croix brings out a new collection. From the monastic white muslin-draped retreat of the late 90s that perfectly fitted her Buddhist phase - to the Designer's Guild florals in her dark and dramatic bedroom of the last series, Eddy manages to nail interiors trends far more effectively than she can her outfits.

Champagne fridge

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Décor comes and décor goes, there are only two unchanging things in the Monsoon's basement kitchen and that's Patsy smoking at the table and a fully stocked champagne chiller. Quite the essential, darling.

Natalie Davies
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