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A House Tour with Run For The Hills

28th February 2022
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This week a collection of beautiful rooms that all belong to the same house. The home of the interior design studio Run For The Hills, owned by husband and wife team Chris Trotman and Anna Burles. I have long been a fan of their work and am thrilled to be able to share their newly…

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A house tour with Sophie Ellis Bextor

27th May 2021
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home of sophie ellis bextor image by kate watson-smyth

A treat for you this week as Sophie and I actually got out of our duvet dens to meet and record the podcast in person and we were thrilled to be able to tour round the home of Sophie Ellis Bextor, who lives with her husband, Richard Jones, also a musician, and their five sons.…

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A house tour with Fashion Designer Matthew Williamson

19th November 2020
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Matthew Williamson London home; turquoise bay windows

In this week’s episode of The Great Indoors podcast we get to nose around the London apartment of Matthew Williamson. The award-winning designer started out in fashion, creating dresses for the likes of Sienna Miller and Jade Jagger before turning his hand to interior design. As The Guardian put it: “From Fashion Star to Interior…

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Monday Inspiration: Beautiful Rooms

28th September 2020
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marianne cotterill location house blue panelling

A bumper post for you today as it’s a mix of househunter and inspirational rooms and that’s because the house of top interiors stylist Marianne Cotterill is on the market and I thought, since it’s a top location house as well that you might fancy a look. Located in north west London, this six bedroom…

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House Tour with cookery writer Skye McAlpine

24th September 2020
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vintage dresser at the home of skye mcalpine by madaboutthehouse.com

Regular visitors may remember that I visited Skye McAlpine’s London flat a couple of years ago just as she put it on the market – remember those gorgeous plaster pink walls and open shelving? Last week I was thrilled to visit her again, this time in her new house that she gutted and completely redecorated…

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A House Tour with Orla Kiely

19th March 2020
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orla kiely vintage stem print sofa at her home

The textile designer who is responsible for one of the most recognisable designs in recent years invited us into her south London home for the podcast last week. You can listen here if you want to have audio as well as visual. Waiting on the pavement outside her tall Victorian terrace house, I was intrigued…

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A House Tour with Sustainable Architect and Designer Oliver Heath

6th February 2020
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Oliver Heath sustainable home

Oliver Heath will be familiar to many from his stint on the first mainstream interiors show Changing Rooms in the 1990s, but while the other designers have continued to makeover rooms and design various products for the high street, he has gone in a different direction turning towards eco design, sustainability and biophilia and has…

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House Tour with Rachel Khoo

12th December 2019
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rachel khoo devol kitchen

Some of you will remember that last year I visited the home of the tv cook Rachel Khoo whose tiny flat in north west London is a master piece of clever design and I’m thrilled that I was able to return to the other week to interview Rachel for the podcast and, this time, talk…

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An Interview with Michelle Ogundehin (podcast notes)

17th October 2019
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Kate Watson-Smyth and Sophie Robinson take a house tour with Michelle Ogundehin for the Great Indoors podcast. The dining room features floor length dusky lilac velvet curtains, a antique mirror effect wallpaper and anaglypta. #thegreatindoors #madaboutthehouse

Michelle Ogundehin needs little introduction; the editor of Elle Decoration for 13 years (from 2004) she is now a regular television presenter, creative consultant and is just finishing off her first book. Notoriously private about her home, Michelle posts only corners of her rooms and has said she will never, ever, invite a magazine into…

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