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How To Decorate, The Rules of Rug and Interview with Trinny Woodall: Podcast Notes

18th April 2019

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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

DO FASHION RULES APPLY TO INTERIORS, DINING IN AND SMALL SPACE LIVING (PODCAST NOTES)

28th November 2019

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Kate Watson-Smyth and Sophie Robinson offer some top wallpapering tips on the Great Indoors podcast. A firm favourite is a large bloom floral print and the one shown here is given a dramatic look with a black background. #wallpaper #thegreatindoors #madaboutthehouse

This week on the podcast we discussed whether the rules of fashion apply to interiors. Regular readers will know that I have often said that where the catwalk leads the cushions will follow and there was a very clear example of that when it came to the biscuit and cream shades which were all over

Create Your Own Rug

14th March 2018

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Some of you might remember that I have been working with Alternative Flooring for a while now. Their wonderful Dotty Damson is draped up my stairs and is the first thing I see when I enter the house. I have had it now for nearly eight years and still love it as much as the

Make Me A Rug

9th March 2017

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Today we're talking rugs as they are one of the easiest ways to change a room and give a mini seasonal makeover. As I type I can hear the dulcet tones of next door's lawn mower and it feels like Spring might finally be in the air. Suddenly I'm looking at the heavy sitting room

10 Best Rugs

3rd November 2016

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The first Thursday of the month (or whatever day you happen to be reading this) means it's time for my round of the ten best... this time we're looking at the 10 best rugs that are around at the moment, new out, classics, just stuff that I like etc. I have chosen them because I

Painted Rugs on Floorboards

27th August 2014

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from improvisedlife.com At a barbecue recently I was asked about painting the floorboards in a hall where the planks continued into the sitting room. We decided that this might be tricky as it would necessitate painting a straight line across the boards to create an artificial ending point. And then I remembered an idea

The Househunter

13th January 2017

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Hello everyone and welcome to Friday's Househunting Room Analysis post. Last week, I tried giving you a little more detail as to why I thought certain rooms worked and others didn't and, judging by the comments, you seemed to like it so let's do it again this week! What you liked, which I must confess

The Househunter back for 2017

6th January 2017

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It's Friday and so we're back with the very first Househunter of the year. Now, I have been reading through your feedback and many of you said you would like more diagnostics and explanations of how and why things work and so this house, which is for sale via The Modern House (for a mere £1.45m)

The Househunter 5/1/16

5th February 2016

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Shall we head to Brighton first? At the time of writing the sun is shining high low in a cloudless almost clear sky and I feel like a bit of seaside is in order. This five bedroom house is on the market with Fine and Country and it is rather splendid isn't it? Or perhaps it's

Feather Light

12th January 2016

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This is one of those "if I had a boudoir moments" because if I did I would surely have this light in it. Isn't it a fabulous thing? It looks like a party skirt - in fact I'm sure I saw one similar on Net a Porter a few weeks ago. With a light like

The Househunter: A Modernist House in Somerset

12th May 2023

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Right get your coats we're going to Somerset. The slight hitch is that we need three million quid, but let's worry about that when we get there. This fabulous modernist house was built in 1935 as a home for the composer Sir Arthur Bliss. It's set in 25 acres of gardens and ancient woodland and

The Househunter: A two bedroom apartment with views of Tower Bridge

24th February 2023

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Years ago, in the middle of the last century, if you wanted to see inside someone's home and understand how they lived you had to be invited, which meant you had to know them personally. Or, if you didn't know them but they were deemed to be sufficiently wealthy, interesting or "society", you might see

Anatomy of a Beautiful Room

6th February 2023

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Well we had a weekend of the sitting room feeling lovely and done and spacious and now it's about to be filled with the kitchen as work starts at the back of the house. This week the upstairs bathroom will be finished so we can decommission the mould-filled shower room downstairs and start to plan

Beautiful Rooms To Inspire Your Own Places And Spaces

16th January 2023

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Hotel Bourg Tibourg

A trawl through my own camera roll this week as there are thousands of pictures on it that I have clearly taken because I loved what I was seeing and yet there they languish, for the most part unseen again until a phone reminder "on this day" pops up and I am reminded once again

Monday Inspiration: Beautiful Rooms

4th July 2022

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pantry in the home of @goodboneslondom image by @madaboutthehouse

Hello everyone and welcome to a new week. Herewith, as ever, a selection rooms that have caught my eye both online and, this week, in real life - with more to follow on Wednesday. No unifying theme this week apart from I loved them all and wanted to share them with you. @meghan.eisenberg remodelled her

Monday Inspiration: Beautiful Rooms

13th June 2022

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As ever a random selection of rooms which have caught my eye in the corridors of the internet this week. Starting off with this pretty table and chairs in what I think might be the image that first sparked my concept of the importance of a disrupter colour. Arts & Crafts Breakfast Table by christopher

The Househunter: A Methodist Church and Sunday School Room

13th May 2022

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Right, this week is one for letting the imagination fly or at the very least thinking about colour palettes. It's a Grade II listed Methodist Church with, and this is the imaginative bit, an attached Sunday School room. It's on with Inigo for £750,000 and it's in Powys, Wales, and it's a while since we've

The Great Outdoors: An interview with Arit Anderson of Gardeners’ World

14th April 2022

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A life in Pattern by Anna Spiro

Today we are in The Great Outdoors for the latest episode of the podcast and not only are we outside but, after a year of trying, we managed to meet up with Arit Anderson, presenter of Gardener’s World, designer at Chelsea and writer and podcaster herself at Growing Greener. We met in Regent’s Park and

How To Deal With That Tricky Middle Room

23rd March 2022

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I promised you this post on what to do with the tricky middle room some time ago and while it won't be relevant to all of you, you should still find some general ideas that apply to any renovation about making the space work for you and how you live rather than just accepting it

The Househunter: A long and narrow Victorian Terrace

18th February 2022

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Back to the UK this week and yes it's a narrow period terrace house (plenty of those about) but it's also full of gorgeous tonal colour and, while regular readers will know that I don't impose (that many) decor rules and firmly believe that everyone should know the tools to be able to find their