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August Postcards: How to Make a Budget Kitchen Look Expensive

I don’t know if m/any of you know but I have been writing a column in Red Magazine for nearly two years now. I began in the depths of lockdown in May 2020 and am delighted to still be there. It’s one of my favourite magazines and one I have bought since it first launched in 1998 with its appeal to what it called The Middle Youth. That was women who may or may not have chosen to have children, who had careers alongside families (if they wanted to) and were interested in furniture as well as fashion, going out and staying in. It felt revolutionary at the time and, as well as being a magazine I have grown up with, it’s one I have continued to buy over the years and still love to read. Read on…

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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.