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Postcard from The Podcast

30th March 2023
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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 own home including how to get a designer kitchen for less and ideas for making your very un-designer kitchen look more bespoke. Listen here for tips including hacking flatpack furniture…

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Postcard from the Podcast: Style surgery

16th March 2023
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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 how to combat the acres of cream and beam in a period house to adding character in a new build. The burning question though, is where should Jordon hang his…

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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…

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Postcard from the Great Indoors Podcast

9th February 2023
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This week on the Great Indoors Podcast it’s our monthly style surgery where we help you with your dilemmas. We tackle the debate between curtains and blinds but this time within a period property, how to creatively re-divide an open plan space and Sophie is in her element when we answer a question about colour!…

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A House Tour with Orla Kiely

19th March 2020
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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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House Tour with Rachel Khoo

12th December 2019
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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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House Tour: Laura Jackson

19th September 2019
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This week on the podcast we visited a house that is, or will be, done up in the style of my dreams. Supper Club host Laura Jackson is midway through the renovations of her East London home and is a firm believer in buying nothing new unless you absolutely have to. To that end she…

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New Book Reviews and Minimalism v Maximalism (podcast notes)

5th September 2019
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Kate Watson-Smyth and Sophie Robinson review three new interior books, shown here on Kate's side table for the Great Indoors podcast. #podcast #thegreatindoors #madaboutthehouse

I spoke earlier in the week about how to revamp your home without spending any money (see previous post) as part of that new year feeling which is always such a big part of September. Another marker of the start of the season is the release of new interiors books. Sophie Robinson and I discussed…