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The Hoover Building Bathroom

Some of you will remember the apartment I helped work on in The Hoover Building a couple of months ago... well today I wanted to show you the last room that I didn't share before. That's the bathroom. I didn't show you because a) I had nothing to do with it and b) bathrooms -
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The Househunter: six bedrooms on a private road

Now I know that we have discussed sharing affordable places and modern places and smaller places and all of the above but sometimes, just sometimes, those aren't the most interesting. I found a lovely little flat this week but there was just nothing much to say about it. It was, you know, affordable and fine.
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A House Tour with Run For The Hills

This week a collection of beautiful rooms that all belong to the same house. The home of the interior design studio Run For The Hills, owned by husband and wife team Chris Trotman and Anna Burles. I have long been a fan of their work and am thrilled to be able to share their newly
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A COMPLETE GUIDE TO WALLPAPER

wallpaper wraparound by fiona duke interiors
This week on the podcast Sophie interviews Russell Whitehead and Jordan Cluroe of the 2LG studio who are the new designers on that revamped 90s classic  Changing Rooms. Do they take it seriously? Do they think it's about design or entertainment? And what about that hair wall (google it)? Have a listen and see what
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From My Radar to Yours: What’s new in Interiors

broste copenhagen pam table in recycled paper via Amara
So what's new? Well, it turns out, quite a lot. With news on the sustainable front too. But before we get into that, thank you so much for your kind and supportive comments yesterday. A couple of early nights and things always seem much better. Although I fear the lockdown madness may have got to
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Monday Inspiration: Colour Blocking and Clever Ways with Paint

pink and yellow by colourist emilie fournet interiors
From Friday neutrals to Monday's (muted) brights and I hope you like these rooms that I have found to show you today. While I may not enjoy the zingy brights of a clean colour palette I'm all over lots of intense but muted colours; you know the ones that have a dollops of grey in
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Beautiful Rooms: A touch of Gold

Kate Watson-Smyth looks at ways of introducing gold accents to a scheme. Here the brass vanity unity in a black bathroom helps to bounce the light around the room. #blackbathroom #brasscabinet #madaboutthehouse
I moved my office around last week to put the desk facing the window and noticed how the light caught the metallic gold ceiling. I often catch myself stopping on the way past to have a look in this room and take pleasure in the ceiling and so it has sparked today's Beautiful Rooms post
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Monday Inspiration: The Power of Paint

Kate Watson-Smyth discusses the power of paint int interiors and how creating a feature with a difference can help to define and zone an open plan space. #featurewall #openplan #madaboutthehouse
I wanted to talk about the power of paint today, with a few examples of people thinking about how to harness its transformative power in more unusual ways than just sticking it all over four walls. Or, worse, just one.... Come! pink front door by mosey home First up is this gorgeous pink from door
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At Home with Kelly Hoppen (Podcast Notes)

In the home of interior designer Kelly Hoppen, Sophie Robinson and Kate Watson-Smyth take a tour of her home. The renovated house features a quadruple height ceiling, open-plan kitchen dining table large enough to seat 30. #openplan #diningtable #madaboutthehouse #kellyhoppen
Now the first thing you need to know about Kelly Hoppen's home is that yes while big (enormous) with tall (quadruple height) ceilings and it may be in shades of her signature taupe, there are so many things you can take from it as inspiration for our own (probably smaller. Just a tad) places. You
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Biophilila, Colour Blocking Trends and Childhood Home Influences (Podcast Notes)

Kate Watson-Smyth and Sophie Robinson discuss colour blocking colour blocking, example by mosey home shown here, biophilia, childhood homes and design crimes on the Great Indoors podcast. #podcast #colourblocking #katewatsonsmyth #madaboutthehouse
Hello and Welcome to The Great Indoors... as it were. It's time for the second episode of this series and this time we spoke about Biophilia (which I wrote about in some detail recently, whether your childhood home influences your adult house and the new trend of colour blocking. You can, as ever, listen here
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MADE.com launches organic cotton bedding and towels

dyed cloth ready to be cut
Some of you may remember that last year I went to Portugal with made.com to see the two factories where they source their ceramics. Both family-run firms – one of which had employees who had been there for over 30 years. machinist at a cotton factory for made.com in portugal This year we returned –
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How To Decorate, The Rules of Rug and Interview with Trinny Woodall: Podcast Notes

rug on seagrass at sophie robinson
This week on The Great Indoors podcast Sophie and I discuss how to plan the decor, everything you need to know about choosing and laying rugs and, in a first for the show, we spent 10 minutes in the instagram-famous bathroom of tv presenter, fashion stylist and make-up entrepreneur Trinny Woodall. We recorded the first
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Christmas Gift Guide Room by Room: The Kitchen

faux fern from rockett st george at kws madabouthehouse.com
Now we better get one thing clear before we start on this room. Christmas is about buying things for people that they might want or like but wouldn't necessarily buy for themselves. And that doesn't mean hoovers, or mops or, even, oven gloves - and you know who you are and you know you are
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The Househunter: Room by Room

Good Morning and hurray for the approaching weekend. I'm planning to take it easy over the next couple of days after two trips south of the river this week (Londoners will know that's a big thing), one trip to Brighton to record the next episodes of our podcast and a day of the house working
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Design Classic versus Trend: The Original Beverley Hills Hotel Wallpaper

Beverley Hills Hotel wallpaper ©madaboutthehouse.com
Beverley Hills Hotel red carpet ©madaboutthehouse.com Now I know some of you may feel that the tropical trend has gone on long enough and I might agree with you when it comes to pineapples and flamingoes but then there are the classics. And this is one of them. THE one perhaps. I wanted to write
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The Househunter: Room by Room

Anyone who has ever approached London from the west will surely have noticed the remarkable Art Deco Hoover building on the A40. And perhaps felt a little bit sad that it was mostly home to a giant supermarket. But guess what - it has been converted into flats and while the supermarket will remain that
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Five of the Best: Vases

Sennen recycled glass vase from Garden Trading for £24 I have never really paid much attention to vases having been quite happy to use the nearest jam jar or wine carafe but sometimes something a bit special is called for and when I backed the hoover into a large glass vase that had come with
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Christmas Gift Guide III: The Bedroom

As you may have realised this year, we are taking a slightly more lateral approach to gift guides, choosing things based on the recipient's favourite room or just choosing our presents for the spaces they will go in rather than trying to shoehorn people into categories they don't want to be in. clockwise from bottom
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A Modern Chaise Longue

modern chaise longue navy blue from rose and grey
So what have we learnt from last week's London Design Festival? Well, as is so often the case with these things, there is an element - as there is in fashion - of anything goes. It has become so vast that whatever your aesthetic you can find it. But, if we are to rummage about
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The Warmth of a Real Fire

In the never-ending to do list that is my house, having an open fireplace is pretty near the top. It's a terrible cliche but there is something so relaxing about sitting in a comfy chair watching the frames flickering. Somehow it makes everything feel better. Keep the lights down low and the heating as well
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