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Postcard from the podcast – Style Surgery



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Should you put off your dream renovation plans while you save up and have to make do with something you don’t love in the meantime and why colour blocking isn’t just for babies. In our monthly style surgery, we help listeners with their personal design dilemmas. From procrastinating over plans to build a dream kitchen
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Visiting A Cork Forest in Portugal



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I promised you a (virtual) visit to a cork forest so come with me to this one south of Lisbon, in Portugal, which produces 60 per cent of all the wine stoppers in the world. the cork forest south of lisbon But let's pause while you digest that because did you know - I didn't
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Monday Inspiration: Beautiful Rooms



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The newly renovated @plainenglishdesign showroom in New York shot by @garruppo
Well come on then own up? Who's spent the weekend cheating on instagram, twitter and blogs with the new app Threads? Me first? Yes, yes I have. And I have to say I rather like it. Having given up on the toxic cesspool that is Twitter some years ago (even this blog has somehow disconnected
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The Househunter: Anne of Cleves House



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As a history nut who loves the Tudors I had to post this house this week. I saw it on Twitter a couple of weeks ago but by the time I tracked it down it was no longer available but now it has popped up on Inigo so I assume the vendors changed agents. I
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A Summer Table with The White Company



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summer tableware from the white company
I’m very excited to be teaming up with The White Company today for a post sharing their high summer collection. I promise the sun was shining as I wrote this. Now I don’t know about you, but I feel The White Company has been around for so long bringing its classic style to homes and
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Beautiful Rooms for Monday Inspiration



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the cocorico hotel in porto
Last week I was in Portugal where I was taken as a guest of Colour Flooring Company to see the cork harvest. I will tell you more about that next week, but first a moment for the stunning hotel we stayed in in Porto. The Cocorico is a converted townhouse with 10 bedrooms and it's
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The Househunter: Jewel Tones in Central London



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A two bedroom apartment for you in Marylebone, W1, this week and it's a riot of deep saturated colour and a lesson in how to use it. Bear in mind you might not like these particular colours but it's about how they have been used which provides the lesson. It's also a call to action
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Postcard from the Podcast (118)



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This week we are excited to be chatting with the king of colour himself, ceramist and designer Jonathan Adler who was in town to open his new store at 91 Pelham Street, London, SW7. Sadly, time and tech being what they are, we were only able to interview him over Zoom rather than in person
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Monday Inspiration: Beautiful Rooms



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Monday again and we seem to be having a bit of a summer moment. And while I have been inclined to complain* (*mention in passing) that the kitchen is dark compared with the last one as it has no skylight, I have to say that at the back of the house with a stone floor
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Plans for the house in Italy



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A few weeks ago I shared with you the news that we have recently fulfilled a 30 year dream of buying a house in Italy - just outside Turin. Those of you that follow me on instagram will have seen the odd story that my architect has shared as the building is fully rewired and
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The Househunter: French Baroque In Gloucestershire



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I was going to show you a pretty flat in central London and then I realised that at £1.1m it was the same price as this five bedroom semi-detached villa with its own garden folly in Stroud, Gloucestershire and it felt like no contest. It's on with Inigo and is a Grade II listed building
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Postcard from the Podcast (116)



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This week on the podcast it’s our monthly style surgery where we answer your interior design dilemmas. If you have a question you want answered, by the way, then do drop us a voice note or an email to [email protected] and we will endeavour to answer your question. A broken plan - adding an internal
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THREE DESIGN STORIES FROM NORWAY



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stacking chairs by eikund
I was recently invited to Oslo for a 24 hour press trip to learn more about three Norwegian businesses. It was my first time in Norway but the last of the Nordic countries I had yet to visit. We didn’t get to see the fjords as they are all on the western side of the
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Monday Inspiration: Beautiful Rooms



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langdon court manor by donna ida image by nico wills
Welcome to a new week and a new set of rooms that have caught my eye and which I thought might inspire you for your own places and spaces. Now perhaps I was drawn to this as I have just made a curtain for my own kitchen to divide it from the hall - and
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The Househunter: A pretty maisonette in east London



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I had thought of trying to find a white modern palette cleanser for you today after the reaction to the Wow!house on Wednesday but instead I found this and I liked it more. To address that - yes it is full on but it is also a showcase for the designers' ideas and as such
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Postcard from the podcast (115)



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Victorian terrace house black extension, outdoor sofa, armchairs, coffee table and floor lamp, garden at madaboutthehouse.com
  My garden at the old Mad House! Summer finally seems to have landed and on this week’s podcast Sophie and I discuss outdoor living. I am firmly of the opinion that you should take the indoors outdoors for true comfort. I want armchairs, sofas, and real crockery, while Sophie likes throwing a few rugs
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WOW!house for the second time



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wow!house 2023 entrance by mark d sikes using iksel fabrics
It is, as someone wrote on social media, the time of year when the interior designers get to tell their own stories. Eighteen room sets at Chelsea Harbour loosely following the idea of a (large) house from the entrance hall, via a dining room, morning room, library, office, bedroom and bathroom out to a garden
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Monday Inspiration: Beautiful Rooms



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Oxshott Kitchen by Devol
Welcome to Monday and I hope you all had a restful half term if that was what you were doing. Suddenly after a month of bank holidays it feels like a long time until the next one although I imagine working parents are quite pleased they're over for now. I took the week off as,
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Postcard from the Podcast (114)



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Another week another postcard from The Great Indoors Podcast. This week we have interviewed Micaela Sharp, upholsterer, designer, businesswoman, and tv presenter who first came to our attention on Interior Design Masters, where she came third proving, yet again, that you don’t have to win the show to win at developing your career. Micaela talks
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