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Monday Inspiration: Beautiful Rooms

Kate Watson-Smyth takes a look at beautiful rooms with inspirational colour schemes. Here a Stockholm apartment is painted in a forest green on the walls and ceiling with crisp white double doors and paintwork. #doubledoors #madaboutthehouse
A visual tour of images that have caught my eye this week that might ease your start into Monday. First up this gorgeous green room in an apartment in Stockholm. green walls image by @kronfoto via @kitchensbypaul Now there are many things about this scene that you think might not translate to your own home
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Monday Inspiration: The Green Room

Kate Watson-Smyth looks at how green, in all its, shades has become a popular choice for interior schemes. It is known to be calming and inspire creativity it works especially well in the bedroom like this geen velvet wall which acts an oversized headboard. #gubi #madaboutthehouse #greenvelvet
Feeling all the greens at the moment and there is so much of it about - in shades not just the trend-led mint - that I thought we would have a little wander through five beautiful rooms that have made it a highlight. Green is also great for a Monday. It's calming and inspires creativity.
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The Househunter: Room by Room

I'm sucker for a black clad building and while I sense this one might divide opinion it's so different from what, I assume, most of us live in that I wanted to take a tour to see what we all think. It's in Broadstairs, Kent, and is on the market with The Modern House for
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The Househunter: Room by Room

A lovely little two bedroom Art Deco flat for you this week which is on the market with The Modern House for £450,000 and is located in south east London. The vendors have renovated throughout but remained sensitive to the original 1930s features. The flat is on the ground floor on the corner of the
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The Househunter: Room by Room

Right I'm moving to East Sussex this week. That's it. I'm not even entirely sure where I'm going but I fancy this tranquil location by the banks of the river in Rye, by the Romney Marshes. This black timber clad house is on the market with The Modern House for £1,845,000 (it's Fantasy Friday folks
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Monday Inspiration: That unexpected colour burst

Kate Watson-Smyth looks at ways of introducing pops of colours to a scheme. A favourite piece of artwork is made a focal point with a wide painted border in this dining room. #popofcolour #diningroom #madaboutthehouse
Now I'm well aware that most of the internet has gone Christmas-mad already. Well, there'll be none of that in this corner. Firstly, there's clearly enough of it everywhere else and, secondly, not everyone likes or celebrates this time of year and I feel there should be respite. Also, and this is maybe not everyone,
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Monday Inspiration: Adding that Unexpected Pop of Colour

Kate Watson-Smyth shows how an unexpected pop of colour can transform a neutral scheme. The corner of this classic kitchen has a surprise addition of a bright blue table and chair, creating a modern yet elegant look. #kitchen #popofcolour #madaboutthehouse
Morning everyone and welcome to Monday. I trust everyone is back in the swing of things now? We have one week till we take the 18yo to university so it's going to be a slightly strange week for us, but there's nothing like a stroll though some gorgeous rooms to calm the senses and help
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Monday Inspiration: A Roksanda Ilincic Designed Apartment

Another house tour for you this Monday, but this time it's a penthouse apartment decorated by the fashion designer Roksanda Ilinčić in her first foray into interior design. It's pink and it's curvy and most of the furniture and artwork was created by women. Coming in...? gasholders apartments First the building. The cast iron frame,
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The Househunter: Room by Room

Happy Friday. Fancy a coming for a quick tour of this rather lovely four bedroom terrace house in north London which is so typical of the Victorian terraces in this city and is on the market for £800,000 via Brickworks. It has such a clear, and lovely, red thread that I thought it would be
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How To Decorate, The Rules of Rug and Interview with Trinny Woodall: Podcast Notes

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
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Monday Inspiration: Beautiful Rooms

Ingredients London kitchen by devol
Monday morning and a little ode to the transformative powers of pink. It's the new grey. I say that because, just like grey, there is a version of it that will go with every other colour on the spectrum. It's not a girly colour (and does it matter if it is?) but a warm shade
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Monday Inspiration: Best of Instagram

zebra wall hanging by @three boyandapink bath
Last week for the Beautiful Rooms post we spoke about the Red Thread and how you can use it to create a cohesive theme in your house. This week, the houses are all very different and while I'm certain they will all have their own red thread, I am choosing to look at little more
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The Househunter: Room by Room

We're heading over to west London this week to have a look at an apartment by one of my favourite designers, Suzy Hoodless, and while we're there I thought we'd poke a virtual nose into a couple of the others which might inspire you in terms of colour and design for your own places. This
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Come With Me To My New online House

Well today’s the day. From today you will be able to join me over on Substack where I have been busy behind the scenes hanging the curtains, unpacking the archive and arranging the furniture ready to welcome you in. Some of you will have already seen the email I sent on Monday in which I
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Using Colour To Punctuate A Room

deep blue paint via atelier ellis
We begin the week, as usual with a stroll through some of the beautiful rooms that have caught my eye this week. And first up, the picture of the vintage jelly cabinet that I mentioned on Friday. Firstly - how pretty! But the point I made the other day is that it is narrow so
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The Househunter

Dashing past and leaving you this lovely sunshine doorway this week. It's been a week of choosing paint colours and tiles for the house in Italy, arranging plumbing positions and, as you read this I may very well be hurtling along a zip wire over one of the largest quarries in Wales as part of
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Monday Inspiration: Beautiful Rooms

The newly renovated @plainenglishdesign showroom in New York shot by @garruppo
Well come on then own up? Who's spent the weekend cheating on instagram, twitter and blogs with the new app Threads? Me first? Yes, yes I have. And I have to say I rather like it. Having given up on the toxic cesspool that is Twitter some years ago (even this blog has somehow disconnected
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WOW!house for the second time

wow!house 2023 entrance by mark d sikes using iksel fabrics
It is, as someone wrote on social media, the time of year when the interior designers get to tell their own stories. Eighteen room sets at Chelsea Harbour loosely following the idea of a (large) house from the entrance hall, via a dining room, morning room, library, office, bedroom and bathroom out to a garden
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Wednesday Thoughts and The Anniversary of My Eco Sofa Design

Vita designed by Mad about The House and Love Your Home
Today's post started out as rather more of a note to subscribers rather than something the casual passer-by might find useful. You found me defeated for a post, which I think we can all agree does not happen often. Ever. At all. The decorator/joiner starts next week on the bedrooms. My next book - due
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Latest drop at Design Storey

Good Morning and Happy Tuesday to you all. If you're stuck at home with no way of getting to work thanks to train and tube strikes then perhaps you can distract yourself with the latest products to drop at Design Storey: Woven teak bench, Zara Home There are some pieces of furniture that once bought
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