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August Postcards: Ask These Questions before you start Decorating

Some of you will have read this before – I first published it in 2018 and it was then expanded to six questions for my second book 101 Interior Design Answers, which came out as the lockdown started in 2020. As we near the anniversary of that date and we appear to have lurched from two years of lockdowns to possible world war, I hope you will forgive me for reposting. Some of you will have ignored it the first time round as it wasn’t relevant. Some of you will be new to these pages. The questions are still relevant, still vital to getting your decor right and inform everything decision I make both in my own house and when advising clients. I have changed the pictures and updated the words so it’s more up to date. Read on… 

Kate Watson-Smyth

The author Kate Watson-Smyth

I’m a journalist who writes about interiors mainly for The Financial Times but I have also written regularly for The Independent and The Daily Mail. My house has been in Living Etc, HeartHome and featured in The Wall Street Journal & Corriere della Sera. I also run an interior styling consultancy Mad About Your House. Welcome to my Mad House.