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PRAISE FOR MAD ABOUT THE HOUSE

A House Tour of the Private Home of Piero Fornasetti

Come With Me To My New online House

The Househunter: Colour Drenching

Bloom! My Floral Carpet launches at Decorex

Beautiful Rooms For Monday

The Househunter: Codebreaking Interior Design

Beautiful Rooms To Start The Week

The Househunter: Small Flat Big Storage

The Househunter: Room by Room

7th June 2019

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To the country as the sun is shining (at the time of writing) and there is an alarm going off outside my city garden and I wish I was lying on my back under a tree looking up at the clouds scudding by. In silence. Instead I'm on the sofa typing and occasionally shouting/pleading/cajoling with

5 Easy Pieces: The Bedroom

brisa peacock linen bedding from made.com

A return to this occasional series where we look at five key elements that you can change in a room to give it a new

Clerkenwell Design Week: Redesigning The Work Space and Sustainability (podcast notes)

lilac and yellow kitchen by Pluck London

Last week Sophie and I took the podcast on the road to record at Clerkenwell Design Week. You can, as ever, listen to the full

The Househunter: Room by Room

A classic Cotswold stone house from the outside this honey-coloured grade II listed old forge is all white washed contemporary living on the inside which

Five of the Best: Monstera Designs

monstera brass lamp from graham and green

This is just for fun but it probably also makes a wider point about how trends spread. I was looking for something completely different when

Discovering La Redoute

22nd May 2019

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dining room for la redoute styled by kate watson-smyth of madaboutthehouse.com

Over the last seven years of writing this blog I have been privileged to work with several companies writing about their products and styling their furniture. One that I have collaborated with on several occasions and we now have something of an ongoing partnership is La Redoute. While I have known about this French company

Phaidon: Interiors The Greatest Rooms of the Century

roger de cabrol, east village loft 2014 image by David S Allee from Phaidon Interiors

When I was first trying to find a publisher for my book, my agent was told that interiors books weren't really popular. That they didn't

The Househunter: Room by Room

Well I'm not going to say that summer's here (that would clearly be foolish) but I am going to say that since the sun has

Downstairs Loo Makeover (II)

wall mural by wall and deco

Welcome to the third, and final ( I hope but never say never) makeover of the Downstairs Loo. This room has never been quite right

Monday Inspiration: For the Love of the Metro Tile

star tiles by ca pietra

Morning morning to you all. It's a five day week which feels like a bit of a shocker after the run of bank holidays doesn't

The Househunter: Room by Room

10th May 2019

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This is so different from the house I live in that I wonder if I am attracted to it purely for that reason. Or perhaps that during the location shoot I went up and down to the loft so many times during the week that I quite fancy the idea of a house with no

Femme Fist Vase

Around the time of the first Women's March (not the first ever but the first after Trump was elected) an image of three women's clenched

Bringing the Outside In with Velux

kws loft with velux window

A couple of weeks ago I spent the day filming with Velux whose team flew over from Denmark to interview me for their new campaign

Meet The Designer: Lindsey Lang

Last week I travelled to south London (a journey involving a bus, a tube, a train and Shank's pony) to meet the award-winning textile and

The Househunter: Room by Room

Happy Friday. Fancy a coming for a quick tour of this rather lovely four bedroom terrace house in north London which is so typical of

How to Make Your House Earn Money, New interiors TV Shows Reviewed: Podcast Notes

2nd May 2019

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Kate Watson-Smyth looks at the variety of reclaimed floors and loves the hexagonal reclaimed terracotta tiles in the kitchen of Sophie Robinson for their faded varying pink tones. #terracottafloor #katewatsonsmyth #kitchenfloor

Welcome to the 3rd episode in the third series of The Great Indoors Podcast and a big thank you to DFS for their continued support and to our producer Kate Taylor. You can listen to the full podcast here. This week's episode comes from Sophie's house as I had that big location shoot here last week. pink

Five of the Best: Throws

waffled navy throw from hmhome

Well I know the odds of a sunny long bank holiday weekend are slim and I know that we had one over Easter - four

The Househunter: Room by Room

Right then after last week's million pound extravaganza we are going to the other end of the scale this week. Well, relatively speaking anyway. This

H&M open new homewares store

small glass pendant light from h&M

There was much excitement a few years ago when H&M first launched its homewares with affordable pared back designs that brought a slightly more rustic

Monday Inspiration: Beautiful Rooms

farrow & ball setting plaster and red earth styled by @drummonds_bathrooms @oliviagregorystylist @damianrussell_

Anyone there? I'm fully expecting that the UK sun will have gone to everyone's heads on this bank holiday Monday and that I will be