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What your furniture style says about you (and your snob level) Carrie Symonds made a clear statement with her Downing Street makeover, insulting John Lewis in the process – but which camp are you in? Are you a Soane Ranger or Aristocratic Abstainer? In a world where no one really goes out any more, wallpaper is the new fashion statement. If a picture says a thousand words, then the way you decorate your home writes an entire thesis, or is it a coffee table book. Furniture isn’t for putting your bottom on while you watch the telly, it’s for saying look at me and who I am! Carrie Symonds knew what she wanted to say with her Downing Street do-over – and it was that she and Boris are a cut above the Mays and their “John Lewis furniture-nightmare”. ....