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A House Tour of the Private Home of Piero Fornasetti

Come With Me To My New online House

The Househunter: Colour Drenching

Bloom! My Floral Carpet launches at Decorex

Beautiful Rooms For Monday

The Househunter: Codebreaking Interior Design

Beautiful Rooms To Start The Week

The Househunter: Small Flat Big Storage

Is AI the Future of Interior Design?

Postcard from the Podcast (107)

13th April 2023

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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

Postcard from the Podcast (106)

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

Monday Inspiration: Beautiful Rooms

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

Postcard from The Podcast

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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

Dreamy New Lighting Collaboration

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

Monday Inspiration: Beautiful Rooms

27th March 2023

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bathroom at Paris hotel les deux gares

Good morning to you from the dust hole. We are now, hopefully, in the final stages but, as The Mad Husband pointed out, it's the bit where we have nothing and then suddenly we have everything. The base units are in but unpainted and with no handles. The appliances are in the right places but

The Househunter: A colourful two bedroom apartment

This two bedroom apartment in the heart of the City of London is, says Historic England, an "unusual example in Britain of the German Expressionist

Postcard from the podcast: An Interview with Jules Haines

blind made from fabric from The Haines Collection, which sells leftover material and prevents it ending up in landfill

This week we chat with Jules Haines, a woman on a mission to reduce waste in the interior design industry one cushion at a time.

New arrivals at Design Storey

It's been some time since I did a round-up of the latest additions at Design Storey. mainly due to my house drowning in dust, and

Monday Inspiration: Before and After

Reporting from the dust front lines again and I am happy to report that with the demolition finally done we were pretty much dust-free for

The Househunter: A Former Watch Shop

17th March 2023

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Off to south east London to this former watch repair shop which has been restored with a focus on sustainable and non-toxic materials to create three bedrooms, a large kitchen diner, sitting room and private garden. Now it can be tricky taking on a former shop with those big street-facing windows but this has been

Postcard from the Podcast: Style surgery

It's time for our monthly style surgery on The Great Indoors podcast; the episode where you get the chance to have your burning design dilemmas answered. From

Come Shopping With Me

It's been a while since we had a shopping post and given that my house is full of dust and I don't really need any

Monday Inspiration: Light, Bright and Dusty

beautiful old terracotta floor in the home of @the_textured_room

We have reached peak dust. By which I mean that point in the renovation where the dust keeps coming and the will to remove it

The Househunter: A Four Bedroom Victorian Terrace

This week's property is perhaps nothing special on the outside- it's attractive - but there are some clever ideas inside and it's a classic four

Postcard from the Podcast: Embracing small rooms

9th March 2023

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Don’t they say the best things come in little packages? Well, that’s the topic of today’s episode of The Great Indoors podcast as we explore the smallest rooms in our homes and make the case that they are to be cherished and indeed celebrated. That's the second smallest room by the way - we're looking

Buying a Used Kitchen

Pre-loved kitchen re-installed from Used Kitchen Exchange 2

Today I am going to tell you about my discovery of a brilliant site that allows you to buy and sell used kitchens which not

Monday Inspiration: Beautiful Rooms

It's a while since we looked at location houses for inspiration and as the dust mounts here at Mad House II and the kitchen will

The Househunter: Four Bedroom Townhouse on Four Floors

One thing I have noticed, not least while trying to decide on the colour for my own kitchen, is how we do all get used

Postcard from The Podcast: Michelle Ogundehin

This week we welcome back to the show our old friend, TV presenter, and design writer Michelle Ogundehin who has news of the return of