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The Househunter: The Berdoulat Building in Bath



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If you ever read blog post titles this one may not mean that much to you but if I show you the pantry that possibly broke the internet it may seem more familiar. This narrow pantry was pinned and admired by everyone. My mother-in-law got contractors' quotes to recreate it, I revised my whole philosophy
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Beautiful Rooms To Inspire



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Well here we are again on a Monday and I thought it would be appropriate to start with an inspiring little home office as some of us will be heading deskwards shortly. Now many people talk about creating a working space under the stairs and it's definitely cheaper and takes up less space than a
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The Househunter: A Palace In Somerset



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Yes it's a palace. Well part of a palace and it was named for King Ina of Wessex, who reigned from 688 to 726. His lands stretched from Kent to Devon although this house wasn't built until the 14th century, and it's not certain if the King even had a palace on this spot although
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Postcard from the Podcast (112)



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the open shelving in my old kitchen This week on the podcast Sophie and I take a deep dive into kitchen design. Sophie is in the process of moving her small kitchen across the house to what was her huge sitting room.  She has changed a window into a door to take advantage of the
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Sustainable Bedding at Sustainable Prices



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Today I want to return to a company I first wrote about in 2018 when they launched a range of sustainable white cotton bedding at accessible prices. Rise & Fall was set up to try and cut out all the noise around bedlinen and strip it back to its core components – stuff to sleep
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Beautiful Rooms for Inspiration



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designed by Hannah Pemberton of Wandalust
Hello to you all and hoping the sun is shining with warmth wherever you are. Welcome another week in The Mad House mad about the house in italy We paid a lightning visit to the house in Italy last week to make a lighting plan. The house needs completely rewiring as it that hasn't been
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The Househunter: A Modernist House in Somerset



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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
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Come With Us To Italy



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fondazione prada in milan
SOLD OUT   Have we got news for you (as the saying goes)! Do you fancy coming on holiday with me and Sophie? A Great Indoors Road trip? Five days with us and 20 other like-minded design lovers? Where to you say? Well, how about a couple of days in one of the most famous
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Tips For Small Space Living



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the ember locke in Kensington opens in July
A bumper post for you today as there have been so many bank holidays recently I thought I owed you a big read. Now that many of us live in smaller homes while house prices are still, generally speaking, going up, space has become a luxury that many can’t afford. Today I thought I would
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The Househunter: A Beautifully Restored Historic House



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Good Day (can't say morning as it might not be when you are reading this) to you all. Firstly thank you so those who have signed up to join The Great Indoors Insiders Group, you should, by now, have seen all the details of a very exciting trip to Italy that we are hoping you
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Join The Insiders Club



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Something slightly different today which I meant to tell you about last week but in all the excitement for my book publication (link here if you want to know more about that) it fell off the edge. I know that many of you listen to the podcast The Great Indoors and I wanted to tell
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The Househunter



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How is it Friday already? This week totally ran away with me and I wanted to tell you first that my book is now OUT. I made a video telling you all about it which you can watch below if you fancy to find out where the inspiration came from and who it's for (spoiler:
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Monday Inspiration: We’ve all gone dotty for checks



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image by sara margareta hellman
A week since I showed you the house we have bought in Italy, less than a week to the publication of my new book and the start of the first week without the builders - don't worry they'll be back next Monday - but, for now, we have a few days of calm. Well I
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The Househunter: A Five Bedroom Victorian Terrace



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An interesting property for you this week as, on the one hand, it's a classic Victorian terrace house where the owners have used the space they have rather than spending on an extension - which often just means making existing rooms bigger rather than adding new ones - but one where there is also scope
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We Bought A House in Italy



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My apologies for the radio silence over the last couple of weeks. It coincided with the Easter Holidays, the last mad rush of the builders finishing and, well, a short trip to Italy where, as some of you may already know, we signed the papers for a house in a lovely village near Turin. We
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Postcard from the Podcast (107)



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Are you also feeling the shortage of cucumbers and lettuces at the supermarket?  We have the perfect gardening inspiration in the form of Rekha Mistry, the amazing food and garden writer, and presenter on Gardeners World. We caught up with Rekha on the Great Indoors where she shared her wisdom and insights. Be it a
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Postcard from the Podcast (106)



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This week we are discussing how to manage your build budget. In the last show (105) we looked at how to get the designer look for less when it comes to your interiors – have a listen for our insider secrets – and this time we are taking the chat to the build. Tom, The
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Monday Inspiration: Beautiful Rooms



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bathroom design by @studioduggan, image by by @kensingtonleverne and work by @queensparkdesignandbuild
Welcome to a new week. At the time of writing the sun is out, the sky is blue and while the house is still full of dust we have reached the decorating stage of the kitchen renovation. So, after a super stressful day when the worktop was due (hence the lack of post last Friday)
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Postcard from The Podcast



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madaboutthehouse.com shot by mark anthony fox
This week we are sharing our trade secrets and the contents of our address books to help you save money when it comes to designing your own home including how to get a designer kitchen for less and ideas for making your very un-designer kitchen look more bespoke. madaboutthehouse.com shot by mark anthony fox Listen here
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Dreamy New Lighting Collaboration



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I have spent the last three months scouring the corridors of the internet in searching of great lighting. With deadlines looming I have bought some but how I wish I had known about this collaboration between Houseof and the interior designer Em Gurner, of Folds Inside, because it would have been worth waiting for. It
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