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MAD ABOUT THE HOUSE
The Househunter: A former Stables in the City. There’s something so romantic about this former stables which has been converted into a two bedroom house and which looks like it belongs deep in the French countryside. But it’s actually in Canning Cross in the Camberwellconservation area.
THE GREAT INDOORS PODCAST The Great Indoors is a celebration of all things interiors and everything you need to know about making your house a home. In each episode, TV presenter and designer Sophie Robinson and best-selling author and journalist Kate Watson-Smyth will discuss, debate and guide you through the top trends and hottest topics from the home front. THE WORLD'S BEST CONTEMPORARY INTERIOR DESIGNERS: NEW BOOK from Phaidon’s By Design, the world’s best contemporary interior designers: Gristanti & Cussen: Riksbyggen, show apartment, Uppsala, Sweden, 2019. Picture credit: Idha Lindhag. Helen Barrett, who writes for FT Wealth, was looking for ‘an intelligent response to the sustainability challenge” which was similar to Graeme Brooker, thehead
HOUSE TOUR WITH RACHEL KHOO rachel khoo hidden door. There is a small upholstered box in here which is actually a single sofa bed. This means that there are two bedrooms – when needed – and Rachel, her husband, and her two children (the baby is currently in a cot) can all stay here together. Back out into the hall and Rachel added this mirrored telephone boxdoor to
MONDAY INSPIRATION: THE NEW STONE COLLECTION FROM LITTLE The new stone collection from little greene: brunswick green and portland stone in light and pale. A palette of soft neutrals developed in conjunction with the National Trust (a long time collaborator) this collection feels perfect for now. The warm neutrals that have been trailed for several months, punctuated with bursts of soft, yetintense
AN INTERVIEW WITH SALVAGE HUNTER DREW PRITCHARD 11th March 2021. AD / May contain affiliate links. This week on the podcast I interview Drew Pritchard, an architectural antiques dealer, on turning his passion into a career both on and off-screen. As the star of TV’s Salvage Hunters, Drew says it’s all about the thrillof
MAD ABOUT THE HOUSE
The Househunter: A former Stables in the City. There’s something so romantic about this former stables which has been converted into a two bedroom house and which looks like it belongs deep in the French countryside. But it’s actually in Canning Cross in the Camberwellconservation area.
THE GREAT INDOORS PODCAST The Great Indoors is a celebration of all things interiors and everything you need to know about making your house a home. In each episode, TV presenter and designer Sophie Robinson and best-selling author and journalist Kate Watson-Smyth will discuss, debate and guide you through the top trends and hottest topics from the home front. THE WORLD'S BEST CONTEMPORARY INTERIOR DESIGNERS: NEW BOOK from Phaidon’s By Design, the world’s best contemporary interior designers: Gristanti & Cussen: Riksbyggen, show apartment, Uppsala, Sweden, 2019. Picture credit: Idha Lindhag. Helen Barrett, who writes for FT Wealth, was looking for ‘an intelligent response to the sustainability challenge” which was similar to Graeme Brooker, thehead
HOUSE TOUR WITH RACHEL KHOO rachel khoo hidden door. There is a small upholstered box in here which is actually a single sofa bed. This means that there are two bedrooms – when needed – and Rachel, her husband, and her two children (the baby is currently in a cot) can all stay here together. Back out into the hall and Rachel added this mirrored telephone boxdoor to
MONDAY INSPIRATION: THE NEW STONE COLLECTION FROM LITTLE The new stone collection from little greene: brunswick green and portland stone in light and pale. A palette of soft neutrals developed in conjunction with the National Trust (a long time collaborator) this collection feels perfect for now. The warm neutrals that have been trailed for several months, punctuated with bursts of soft, yetintense
AN INTERVIEW WITH SALVAGE HUNTER DREW PRITCHARD 11th March 2021. AD / May contain affiliate links. This week on the podcast I interview Drew Pritchard, an architectural antiques dealer, on turning his passion into a career both on and off-screen. As the star of TV’s Salvage Hunters, Drew says it’s all about the thrillof
THE GREAT INDOORS PODCAST The Great Indoors is a celebration of all things interiors and everything you need to know about making your house a home. In each episode, TV presenter and designer Sophie Robinson and best-selling author and journalist Kate Watson-Smyth will discuss, debate and guide you through the top trends and hottest topics from the home front. TOP TIPS TO GET YOUR HOUSE SALE READY One of the key changes was the apparent rush of city dwellers to sell up and move to the country and, in an effort to keep the housing market fluid, the Government has extended the Stamp Duty Holiday until the end of June after which date, and until the end of September, there is a staggered return to previous rates. THE HOUSEHUNTER GOES TO THE SEASIDE Reply Lesley Keir 11th June 2021 at 8:13 am. Dr Lili-The-Pink Fakenham (played by Amy Adams wearing large hornrimmed glasses) is a renowned virologist and has been contacted by Prof Jean-Pierre de L’Ail Sauvage (known as J-P and played by Louis Garrel). HOW TO BUY AT AUCTION It’s podcast day today and it’s a good’un. Useful too. Sophie and I discuss garden furniture and how the key to getting it right is to take in the indoors out – sofas and lamps rather than deck chairs that collapse on you. Think about creating an outdoor sitting room and you’re on the right DULUX COLOUR OF THE YEAR 2020 The other big trend was the use of horizontal lines – partly because the whole colour palette is based around the lines between the sky and ground (that’d be the horizon then) and partly because decorating, as I have mentioned several times before, has become much more about colour blocking and using different colours on different parts of thewall.
10 BEST SOFAS
District Eight is a Vietnamese company who sell industrial style furniture with a Danish feel to it. Currently it’s only available via Anthropologie in the UK but I love the style of this sofa with its handy shelf at the end and, while the wooden base may mean you don’t want to sit on it for hours on end, it won’t sag either so it will last as long as the cushions do and it would be easy EIGHT OF THE BEST BOUTIQUE STORES Next in this mini directory series, we come to the boutique stores, which is a fancy way of saying those shops that sell a mix of vintage and modern, electic and unusual and can’t really be defined as any one particular thing. Their personality is usually A GUIDE TO BUYING CARPET CHOOSING YOUR CARPET. Stair carpet needs to be hard-wearing so a twist or a cut pile carpet is a good choice as it’s more resistant to crushing than, say a loop carpet. A mix of 80 per cent wool and 20 per cent nylon is also a good choice for stairs which, incidentally, was 10 THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT: MID-CENTURY MODERN This is a term that has been used (and abused) so much over the last ten years that I thought it might be good to have a look at true mid-century modern design to help you work out what’s real and what’s just pinched a few straight lines and called it mid-century when there’s nothing remotely mid-century about it. MONDAY INSPIRATION: CLEVER WAYS WITH LEFTOVER PAINT Frog tape is your friend for this and the key is, to remove it – carefully – before the paint is fully dry as that produces a sharper edge. This might be too many colours for you but, as always, take it as inspiration rather than something to copy. Below is a calmer example and one that makes so much sense of the old feature wall.MAD ABOUT THE HOUSE
The Househunter: A former Stables in the City. There’s something so romantic about this former stables which has been converted into a two bedroom house and which looks like it belongs deep in the French countryside. But it’s actually in Canning Cross in the Camberwellconservation area.
THE WORLD'S BEST CONTEMPORARY INTERIOR DESIGNERS: NEW BOOK from Phaidon’s By Design, the world’s best contemporary interior designers: Gristanti & Cussen: Riksbyggen, show apartment, Uppsala, Sweden, 2019. Picture credit: Idha Lindhag. Helen Barrett, who writes for FT Wealth, was looking for ‘an intelligent response to the sustainability challenge” which was similar to Graeme Brooker, thehead
10 THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT: MID-CENTURY MODERN 3 It wasn’t just about wooden furniture though. Mid-Century Modern was also highly innovative, with plastic being used in mass production for the first time as well as metal, glass and plywood. panton chair by vitra. 4 Often materials were juxtaposed in a way that hadn’t been seen before; so glass coffee tables with wooden legs – Noguchi HAS LOCKDOWN MADE INTERIORS TRENDS IRRELEVANT? maximimalism is an ongoing trend – wallpaper by de Gournay. In addition, the lockdown has made us all much more aware not only of what our houses look like, but how they are working for us. For many it was the first real time they spent interacting with their decor choices and I think it’s fair to say that the cracks in some ofthose
MONDAY INSPIRATION: THE NEW STONE COLLECTION FROM LITTLE The new stone collection from little greene: brunswick green and portland stone in light and pale. A palette of soft neutrals developed in conjunction with the National Trust (a long time collaborator) this collection feels perfect for now. The warm neutrals that have been trailed for several months, punctuated with bursts of soft, yetintense
HOUSE TOUR WITH RACHEL KHOO rachel khoo hidden door. There is a small upholstered box in here which is actually a single sofa bed. This means that there are two bedrooms – when needed – and Rachel, her husband, and her two children (the baby is currently in a cot) can all stay here together. Back out into the hall and Rachel added this mirrored telephone boxdoor to
AN INTERVIEW WITH JAY BLADES, PRESENTER OF THE REPAIR SHOP And this is a trailer for the show itself if you haven’t listened before and aren’t, generally speaking, a listener of podcasts. With huge thanks to our sponsor Geberit for supporting the podcast so enthusiastically during this difficult period. Elsewhere on the show Sophie and I discuss our fantasy houses – we’re over lockdown we want to talk design dreams – and some simple ideas HOW TO MIX MODERN WITH PERIOD IN INTERIORS Today’s Wednesday Ad Break is the second (and final) post in collaboration with the Danish Company BoConcept.They offer a free design service and one of the most commonly asked questions is how to mix their contemporary furniture with the period stuff that you might already own and I thought it would be really helpful for us all to get some advice on that. BATHROOM TRENDS: COLOUR IS BACK Yes, it’s true. There is a gradual move towards bringing back the coloured bathroom suite. But hang on. DON’T PANIC at the back there – it’s not going to be about the 1970s which involved a peach corner bath and a shag pile carpet – we actually had a bathroom like that for a while – it’s going to be colour for the 21st century.RICE BAG PLANTERS
Objects Of Design #85: Fair Trade Recycled Rice Bag. 24th May 2012. AD / May contain affiliate links. Perfect for a window sill herb garden, these old rice bags are individually made in Cambodia and no two are the same, although you can specify the colours you would prefer. They are around 13cm high and 15cm wide so eventually you’ll have toMAD ABOUT THE HOUSE
The Househunter: A former Stables in the City. There’s something so romantic about this former stables which has been converted into a two bedroom house and which looks like it belongs deep in the French countryside. But it’s actually in Canning Cross in the Camberwellconservation area.
THE WORLD'S BEST CONTEMPORARY INTERIOR DESIGNERS: NEW BOOK from Phaidon’s By Design, the world’s best contemporary interior designers: Gristanti & Cussen: Riksbyggen, show apartment, Uppsala, Sweden, 2019. Picture credit: Idha Lindhag. Helen Barrett, who writes for FT Wealth, was looking for ‘an intelligent response to the sustainability challenge” which was similar to Graeme Brooker, thehead
10 THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT: MID-CENTURY MODERN 3 It wasn’t just about wooden furniture though. Mid-Century Modern was also highly innovative, with plastic being used in mass production for the first time as well as metal, glass and plywood. panton chair by vitra. 4 Often materials were juxtaposed in a way that hadn’t been seen before; so glass coffee tables with wooden legs – Noguchi HAS LOCKDOWN MADE INTERIORS TRENDS IRRELEVANT? maximimalism is an ongoing trend – wallpaper by de Gournay. In addition, the lockdown has made us all much more aware not only of what our houses look like, but how they are working for us. For many it was the first real time they spent interacting with their decor choices and I think it’s fair to say that the cracks in some ofthose
MONDAY INSPIRATION: THE NEW STONE COLLECTION FROM LITTLE The new stone collection from little greene: brunswick green and portland stone in light and pale. A palette of soft neutrals developed in conjunction with the National Trust (a long time collaborator) this collection feels perfect for now. The warm neutrals that have been trailed for several months, punctuated with bursts of soft, yetintense
HOUSE TOUR WITH RACHEL KHOO rachel khoo hidden door. There is a small upholstered box in here which is actually a single sofa bed. This means that there are two bedrooms – when needed – and Rachel, her husband, and her two children (the baby is currently in a cot) can all stay here together. Back out into the hall and Rachel added this mirrored telephone boxdoor to
AN INTERVIEW WITH JAY BLADES, PRESENTER OF THE REPAIR SHOP And this is a trailer for the show itself if you haven’t listened before and aren’t, generally speaking, a listener of podcasts. With huge thanks to our sponsor Geberit for supporting the podcast so enthusiastically during this difficult period. Elsewhere on the show Sophie and I discuss our fantasy houses – we’re over lockdown we want to talk design dreams – and some simple ideas HOW TO MIX MODERN WITH PERIOD IN INTERIORS Today’s Wednesday Ad Break is the second (and final) post in collaboration with the Danish Company BoConcept.They offer a free design service and one of the most commonly asked questions is how to mix their contemporary furniture with the period stuff that you might already own and I thought it would be really helpful for us all to get some advice on that. BATHROOM TRENDS: COLOUR IS BACK Yes, it’s true. There is a gradual move towards bringing back the coloured bathroom suite. But hang on. DON’T PANIC at the back there – it’s not going to be about the 1970s which involved a peach corner bath and a shag pile carpet – we actually had a bathroom like that for a while – it’s going to be colour for the 21st century.RICE BAG PLANTERS
Objects Of Design #85: Fair Trade Recycled Rice Bag. 24th May 2012. AD / May contain affiliate links. Perfect for a window sill herb garden, these old rice bags are individually made in Cambodia and no two are the same, although you can specify the colours you would prefer. They are around 13cm high and 15cm wide so eventually you’ll have to TOP TIPS TO GET YOUR HOUSE SALE READY One of the key changes was the apparent rush of city dwellers to sell up and move to the country and, in an effort to keep the housing market fluid, the Government has extended the Stamp Duty Holiday until the end of June after which date, and until the end of September, there is a staggered return to previous rates. THE GREAT INDOORS PODCAST The Great Indoors is a celebration of all things interiors and everything you need to know about making your house a home. In each episode, TV presenter and designer Sophie Robinson and best-selling author and journalist Kate Watson-Smyth will discuss, debate and guide you through the top trends and hottest topics from the home front. THE BEST FAUX PLANTS faux fern from cox and cox. There have also been good reports from Cox and Cox whose fern is seen above and which costs £50. Now those would appear to be the top three places but they’re not failsafe. The issue is the type of plant you are trying to fake. The tropical plants which have large and quite plasticky leaves in the first place, are EIGHT OF THE BEST BOUTIQUE STORES Next in this mini directory series, we come to the boutique stores, which is a fancy way of saying those shops that sell a mix of vintage and modern, electic and unusual and can’t really be defined as any one particular thing. Their personality is usually VINTAGE WOOD FURNITURE Well what a week. I spent most of it filming for something that I will tell you all about in September and then my in-laws came for the weekend; the first time they have been here since 2019. MONDAY INSPIRATION: BEAUTIFUL ROOMS Well pull up a chair (or a curved sofa) who’s been watching Halston? It’s a five part drama on Netflix about the fashion designer who started out as a milliner (finding fame after Jackie Kennedy wore one of his pillbox hats for the presidential inauguration) and went on to dominate the fashion of the 70s10 BEAUTIFUL ROOMS
10 Beautiful Rooms. Morning everyone and welcome to this week’s edition of 10 Beautiful Rooms. As usual there’s no overriding theme, just a collection of spaces that have caught my eye and which I thought you might enjoy and which might spark inspiration for your own homes. burgundy and wood image via conran + partners. DULUX COLOUR OF THE YEAR 2020 The other big trend was the use of horizontal lines – partly because the whole colour palette is based around the lines between the sky and ground (that’d be the horizon then) and partly because decorating, as I have mentioned several times before, has become much more about colour blocking and using different colours on different parts of thewall.
A NEW INTERIORS STORE FOR THE UK Vivense is a Turkish company that sells well-designed affordable furniture from a mix of its own designers and others it has cherry-picked from around the world.In one canny marriage of the two great giants of furniture design, it works closely with an Italian designer, Emanuele Patton, who lives in FIVE OF THE BEST BEDSIDE TABLES cox and cox black metal bedside cabinet £275. That said, I know that some of you will always want storage and this is a rather good little number. Made from black metal it has two drawers, you can see the floor which makes the whole thing look lighter and will make the room look less cluttered and it has leather handles for a really niceMAD ABOUT THE HOUSE
The Househunter: A former Stables in the City. There’s something so romantic about this former stables which has been converted into a two bedroom house and which looks like it belongs deep in the French countryside. But it’s actually in Canning Cross in the Camberwellconservation area.
THE GREAT INDOORS PODCAST The Great Indoors is a celebration of all things interiors and everything you need to know about making your house a home. In each episode, TV presenter and designer Sophie Robinson and best-selling author and journalist Kate Watson-Smyth will discuss, debate and guide you through the top trends and hottest topics from the home front. DULUX COLOUR OF THE YEAR 2020 The other big trend was the use of horizontal lines – partly because the whole colour palette is based around the lines between the sky and ground (that’d be the horizon then) and partly because decorating, as I have mentioned several times before, has become much more about colour blocking and using different colours on different parts of thewall.
EIGHT OF THE BEST BOUTIQUE STORES Next in this mini directory series, we come to the boutique stores, which is a fancy way of saying those shops that sell a mix of vintage and modern, electic and unusual and can’t really be defined as any one particular thing. Their personality is usually10 BEAUTIFUL ROOMS
10 Beautiful Rooms. Morning everyone and welcome to this week’s edition of 10 Beautiful Rooms. As usual there’s no overriding theme, just a collection of spaces that have caught my eye and which I thought you might enjoy and which might spark inspiration for your own homes. burgundy and wood image via conran + partners. HOUSE TOUR WITH COOKERY WRITER SKYE MCALPINE Skye and Ben removed all the walls, reinstated the cornicing and details and installed a creamy yellow kitchen at the back and a long dining table at the front. “The table will seat 10 comfortably and I wanted flexible space. It is all about the table – it’s the most important piece of furniture in the house because it is where we live 10 THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT: MID-CENTURY MODERN 3 It wasn’t just about wooden furniture though. Mid-Century Modern was also highly innovative, with plastic being used in mass production for the first time as well as metal, glass and plywood. panton chair by vitra. 4 Often materials were juxtaposed in a way that hadn’t been seen before; so glass coffee tables with wooden legs – Noguchi BATHROOM TRENDS: COLOUR IS BACK Yes, it’s true. There is a gradual move towards bringing back the coloured bathroom suite. But hang on. DON’T PANIC at the back there – it’s not going to be about the 1970s which involved a peach corner bath and a shag pile carpet – we actually had a bathroom like that for a while – it’s going to be colour for the 21st century. MONDAY INSPIRATION: HOW WE REACT EMOTIONALLY TO COLOUR I’ve said before that when decorating a room you need to find the colours you love but also to work out how they make you feel. We react to colour in one, or two, of three ways – culturally (for the Dutch orange can be football, while for the US it might be prison), physically (a gut reaction to a colour that is instinctive – for me it’s primrose yellow that I don’t like) andRICE BAG PLANTERS
Objects Of Design #85: Fair Trade Recycled Rice Bag. 24th May 2012. AD / May contain affiliate links. Perfect for a window sill herb garden, these old rice bags are individually made in Cambodia and no two are the same, although you can specify the colours you would prefer. They are around 13cm high and 15cm wide so eventually you’ll have toMAD ABOUT THE HOUSE
The Househunter: A former Stables in the City. There’s something so romantic about this former stables which has been converted into a two bedroom house and which looks like it belongs deep in the French countryside. But it’s actually in Canning Cross in the Camberwellconservation area.
THE GREAT INDOORS PODCAST The Great Indoors is a celebration of all things interiors and everything you need to know about making your house a home. In each episode, TV presenter and designer Sophie Robinson and best-selling author and journalist Kate Watson-Smyth will discuss, debate and guide you through the top trends and hottest topics from the home front. DULUX COLOUR OF THE YEAR 2020 The other big trend was the use of horizontal lines – partly because the whole colour palette is based around the lines between the sky and ground (that’d be the horizon then) and partly because decorating, as I have mentioned several times before, has become much more about colour blocking and using different colours on different parts of thewall.
EIGHT OF THE BEST BOUTIQUE STORES Next in this mini directory series, we come to the boutique stores, which is a fancy way of saying those shops that sell a mix of vintage and modern, electic and unusual and can’t really be defined as any one particular thing. Their personality is usually10 BEAUTIFUL ROOMS
10 Beautiful Rooms. Morning everyone and welcome to this week’s edition of 10 Beautiful Rooms. As usual there’s no overriding theme, just a collection of spaces that have caught my eye and which I thought you might enjoy and which might spark inspiration for your own homes. burgundy and wood image via conran + partners. HOUSE TOUR WITH COOKERY WRITER SKYE MCALPINE Skye and Ben removed all the walls, reinstated the cornicing and details and installed a creamy yellow kitchen at the back and a long dining table at the front. “The table will seat 10 comfortably and I wanted flexible space. It is all about the table – it’s the most important piece of furniture in the house because it is where we live 10 THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT: MID-CENTURY MODERN 3 It wasn’t just about wooden furniture though. Mid-Century Modern was also highly innovative, with plastic being used in mass production for the first time as well as metal, glass and plywood. panton chair by vitra. 4 Often materials were juxtaposed in a way that hadn’t been seen before; so glass coffee tables with wooden legs – Noguchi BATHROOM TRENDS: COLOUR IS BACK Yes, it’s true. There is a gradual move towards bringing back the coloured bathroom suite. But hang on. DON’T PANIC at the back there – it’s not going to be about the 1970s which involved a peach corner bath and a shag pile carpet – we actually had a bathroom like that for a while – it’s going to be colour for the 21st century. MONDAY INSPIRATION: HOW WE REACT EMOTIONALLY TO COLOUR I’ve said before that when decorating a room you need to find the colours you love but also to work out how they make you feel. We react to colour in one, or two, of three ways – culturally (for the Dutch orange can be football, while for the US it might be prison), physically (a gut reaction to a colour that is instinctive – for me it’s primrose yellow that I don’t like) andRICE BAG PLANTERS
Objects Of Design #85: Fair Trade Recycled Rice Bag. 24th May 2012. AD / May contain affiliate links. Perfect for a window sill herb garden, these old rice bags are individually made in Cambodia and no two are the same, although you can specify the colours you would prefer. They are around 13cm high and 15cm wide so eventually you’ll have to ABOUT ME AND CONTACT Welcome to The Mad House. I’m Kate Watson-Smyth, a journalist who’s been writing about property, interiors and design in national newspapers for the last 20 years. I spent about 15 of them at The Independent but have also worked regularly for The Financial Times (where I won Lifestyle/Interiors writer of the year at the 2013Property Press
MY HOUSE - MAD ABOUT THE HOUSE The Househunter: The House of My Dreams (No 1) It seems fitting and, perhaps weirdly coincidental, that today, five years since I last went to New York and on the first full day of BlogTourNYC, that I have found this house to show you. For this is my dream house. This iswhere I
FIVE INTERIORS TRENDS TO LOOK OUT FOR IN 2021 FIVE INTERIORS TRENDS TO LOOK OUT FOR IN 2021. Normally at this time of year I would be heading off to Paris to visit the Maison e Objet trade show to see what looks the designers are predicting for the months and year ahead. Obviously in the current circumstances I’m barely allowed to the end of the road, never mind abroad so I havebeen
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Well what a week. I spent most of it filming for something that I will tell you all about in September and then my in-laws came for the weekend; the first time they have been here since 2019. MONDAY INSPIRATION: BEAUTIFUL ROOMS Well pull up a chair (or a curved sofa) who’s been watching Halston? It’s a five part drama on Netflix about the fashion designer who started out as a milliner (finding fame after Jackie Kennedy wore one of his pillbox hats for the presidential inauguration) and went on to dominate the fashion of the 70s A GUIDE TO BUYING CARPET CHOOSING YOUR CARPET. Stair carpet needs to be hard-wearing so a twist or a cut pile carpet is a good choice as it’s more resistant to crushing than, say a loop carpet. A mix of 80 per cent wool and 20 per cent nylon is also a good choice for stairs which, incidentally, was HOUSE TOUR WITH RACHEL KHOO rachel khoo hidden door. There is a small upholstered box in here which is actually a single sofa bed. This means that there are two bedrooms – when needed – and Rachel, her husband, and her two children (the baby is currently in a cot) can all stay here together. Back out into the hall and Rachel added this mirrored telephone boxdoor to
A NEW INTERIORS STORE FOR THE UK After a year of lockdowns when so many stores and businesses have pivoted to online only, it was exciting to hear about a new brand that has just opened up a showroom in London with plans to open more in each corner of the city over the next year so for today’s Ad break I’m going to tell you about this new company making great affordable designs that pay attention to the details. AN INTERVIEW WITH JAY BLADES, PRESENTER OF THE REPAIR SHOP And this is a trailer for the show itself if you haven’t listened before and aren’t, generally speaking, a listener of podcasts. With huge thanks to our sponsor Geberit for supporting the podcast so enthusiastically during this difficult period. Elsewhere on the show Sophie and I discuss our fantasy houses – we’re over lockdown we want to talk design dreams – and some simple ideas FIVE OF THE BEST BEDSIDE TABLES cox and cox black metal bedside cabinet £275. That said, I know that some of you will always want storage and this is a rather good little number. Made from black metal it has two drawers, you can see the floor which makes the whole thing look lighter and will make the room look less cluttered and it has leather handles for a really niceMAD ABOUT THE HOUSE
The Househunter: A former Stables in the City. There’s something so romantic about this former stables which has been converted into a two bedroom house and which looks like it belongs deep in the French countryside. But it’s actually in Canning Cross in the Camberwellconservation area.
THE GREAT INDOORS PODCAST The Great Indoors is a celebration of all things interiors and everything you need to know about making your house a home. In each episode, TV presenter and designer Sophie Robinson and best-selling author and journalist Kate Watson-Smyth will discuss, debate and guide you through the top trends and hottest topics from the home front. DULUX COLOUR OF THE YEAR 2020 The other big trend was the use of horizontal lines – partly because the whole colour palette is based around the lines between the sky and ground (that’d be the horizon then) and partly because decorating, as I have mentioned several times before, has become much more about colour blocking and using different colours on different parts of thewall.
EIGHT OF THE BEST BOUTIQUE STORES Next in this mini directory series, we come to the boutique stores, which is a fancy way of saying those shops that sell a mix of vintage and modern, electic and unusual and can’t really be defined as any one particular thing. Their personality is usually10 BEAUTIFUL ROOMS
10 Beautiful Rooms. Morning everyone and welcome to this week’s edition of 10 Beautiful Rooms. As usual there’s no overriding theme, just a collection of spaces that have caught my eye and which I thought you might enjoy and which might spark inspiration for your own homes. burgundy and wood image via conran + partners. HOUSE TOUR WITH COOKERY WRITER SKYE MCALPINE Skye and Ben removed all the walls, reinstated the cornicing and details and installed a creamy yellow kitchen at the back and a long dining table at the front. “The table will seat 10 comfortably and I wanted flexible space. It is all about the table – it’s the most important piece of furniture in the house because it is where we live 10 THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT: MID-CENTURY MODERN 3 It wasn’t just about wooden furniture though. Mid-Century Modern was also highly innovative, with plastic being used in mass production for the first time as well as metal, glass and plywood. panton chair by vitra. 4 Often materials were juxtaposed in a way that hadn’t been seen before; so glass coffee tables with wooden legs – Noguchi BATHROOM TRENDS: COLOUR IS BACK Yes, it’s true. There is a gradual move towards bringing back the coloured bathroom suite. But hang on. DON’T PANIC at the back there – it’s not going to be about the 1970s which involved a peach corner bath and a shag pile carpet – we actually had a bathroom like that for a while – it’s going to be colour for the 21st century. MONDAY INSPIRATION: HOW WE REACT EMOTIONALLY TO COLOUR I’ve said before that when decorating a room you need to find the colours you love but also to work out how they make you feel. We react to colour in one, or two, of three ways – culturally (for the Dutch orange can be football, while for the US it might be prison), physically (a gut reaction to a colour that is instinctive – for me it’s primrose yellow that I don’t like) andRICE BAG PLANTERS
Objects Of Design #85: Fair Trade Recycled Rice Bag. 24th May 2012. AD / May contain affiliate links. Perfect for a window sill herb garden, these old rice bags are individually made in Cambodia and no two are the same, although you can specify the colours you would prefer. They are around 13cm high and 15cm wide so eventually you’ll have toMAD ABOUT THE HOUSE
The Househunter: A former Stables in the City. There’s something so romantic about this former stables which has been converted into a two bedroom house and which looks like it belongs deep in the French countryside. But it’s actually in Canning Cross in the Camberwellconservation area.
THE GREAT INDOORS PODCAST The Great Indoors is a celebration of all things interiors and everything you need to know about making your house a home. In each episode, TV presenter and designer Sophie Robinson and best-selling author and journalist Kate Watson-Smyth will discuss, debate and guide you through the top trends and hottest topics from the home front. DULUX COLOUR OF THE YEAR 2020 The other big trend was the use of horizontal lines – partly because the whole colour palette is based around the lines between the sky and ground (that’d be the horizon then) and partly because decorating, as I have mentioned several times before, has become much more about colour blocking and using different colours on different parts of thewall.
EIGHT OF THE BEST BOUTIQUE STORES Next in this mini directory series, we come to the boutique stores, which is a fancy way of saying those shops that sell a mix of vintage and modern, electic and unusual and can’t really be defined as any one particular thing. Their personality is usually10 BEAUTIFUL ROOMS
10 Beautiful Rooms. Morning everyone and welcome to this week’s edition of 10 Beautiful Rooms. As usual there’s no overriding theme, just a collection of spaces that have caught my eye and which I thought you might enjoy and which might spark inspiration for your own homes. burgundy and wood image via conran + partners. HOUSE TOUR WITH COOKERY WRITER SKYE MCALPINE Skye and Ben removed all the walls, reinstated the cornicing and details and installed a creamy yellow kitchen at the back and a long dining table at the front. “The table will seat 10 comfortably and I wanted flexible space. It is all about the table – it’s the most important piece of furniture in the house because it is where we live 10 THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT: MID-CENTURY MODERN 3 It wasn’t just about wooden furniture though. Mid-Century Modern was also highly innovative, with plastic being used in mass production for the first time as well as metal, glass and plywood. panton chair by vitra. 4 Often materials were juxtaposed in a way that hadn’t been seen before; so glass coffee tables with wooden legs – Noguchi BATHROOM TRENDS: COLOUR IS BACK Yes, it’s true. There is a gradual move towards bringing back the coloured bathroom suite. But hang on. DON’T PANIC at the back there – it’s not going to be about the 1970s which involved a peach corner bath and a shag pile carpet – we actually had a bathroom like that for a while – it’s going to be colour for the 21st century. MONDAY INSPIRATION: HOW WE REACT EMOTIONALLY TO COLOUR I’ve said before that when decorating a room you need to find the colours you love but also to work out how they make you feel. We react to colour in one, or two, of three ways – culturally (for the Dutch orange can be football, while for the US it might be prison), physically (a gut reaction to a colour that is instinctive – for me it’s primrose yellow that I don’t like) andRICE BAG PLANTERS
Objects Of Design #85: Fair Trade Recycled Rice Bag. 24th May 2012. AD / May contain affiliate links. Perfect for a window sill herb garden, these old rice bags are individually made in Cambodia and no two are the same, although you can specify the colours you would prefer. They are around 13cm high and 15cm wide so eventually you’ll have to ABOUT ME AND CONTACT Welcome to The Mad House. I’m Kate Watson-Smyth, a journalist who’s been writing about property, interiors and design in national newspapers for the last 20 years. I spent about 15 of them at The Independent but have also worked regularly for The Financial Times (where I won Lifestyle/Interiors writer of the year at the 2013Property Press
MY HOUSE - MAD ABOUT THE HOUSE The Househunter: The House of My Dreams (No 1) It seems fitting and, perhaps weirdly coincidental, that today, five years since I last went to New York and on the first full day of BlogTourNYC, that I have found this house to show you. For this is my dream house. This iswhere I
FIVE INTERIORS TRENDS TO LOOK OUT FOR IN 2021 FIVE INTERIORS TRENDS TO LOOK OUT FOR IN 2021. Normally at this time of year I would be heading off to Paris to visit the Maison e Objet trade show to see what looks the designers are predicting for the months and year ahead. Obviously in the current circumstances I’m barely allowed to the end of the road, never mind abroad so I havebeen
VINTAGE WOOD
Well what a week. I spent most of it filming for something that I will tell you all about in September and then my in-laws came for the weekend; the first time they have been here since 2019. MONDAY INSPIRATION: BEAUTIFUL ROOMS Well pull up a chair (or a curved sofa) who’s been watching Halston? It’s a five part drama on Netflix about the fashion designer who started out as a milliner (finding fame after Jackie Kennedy wore one of his pillbox hats for the presidential inauguration) and went on to dominate the fashion of the 70s A GUIDE TO BUYING CARPET CHOOSING YOUR CARPET. Stair carpet needs to be hard-wearing so a twist or a cut pile carpet is a good choice as it’s more resistant to crushing than, say a loop carpet. A mix of 80 per cent wool and 20 per cent nylon is also a good choice for stairs which, incidentally, was HOUSE TOUR WITH RACHEL KHOO rachel khoo hidden door. There is a small upholstered box in here which is actually a single sofa bed. This means that there are two bedrooms – when needed – and Rachel, her husband, and her two children (the baby is currently in a cot) can all stay here together. Back out into the hall and Rachel added this mirrored telephone boxdoor to
A NEW INTERIORS STORE FOR THE UK After a year of lockdowns when so many stores and businesses have pivoted to online only, it was exciting to hear about a new brand that has just opened up a showroom in London with plans to open more in each corner of the city over the next year so for today’s Ad break I’m going to tell you about this new company making great affordable designs that pay attention to the details. AN INTERVIEW WITH JAY BLADES, PRESENTER OF THE REPAIR SHOP And this is a trailer for the show itself if you haven’t listened before and aren’t, generally speaking, a listener of podcasts. With huge thanks to our sponsor Geberit for supporting the podcast so enthusiastically during this difficult period. Elsewhere on the show Sophie and I discuss our fantasy houses – we’re over lockdown we want to talk design dreams – and some simple ideas FIVE OF THE BEST BEDSIDE TABLES cox and cox black metal bedside cabinet £275. That said, I know that some of you will always want storage and this is a rather good little number. Made from black metal it has two drawers, you can see the floor which makes the whole thing look lighter and will make the room look less cluttered and it has leather handles for a really niceMAD ABOUT THE HOUSE
The Househunter: A former Stables in the City. There’s something so romantic about this former stables which has been converted into a two bedroom house and which looks like it belongs deep in the French countryside. But it’s actually in Canning Cross in the Camberwellconservation area.
THE GREAT INDOORS PODCAST The Great Indoors is a celebration of all things interiors and everything you need to know about making your house a home. In each episode, TV presenter and designer Sophie Robinson and best-selling author and journalist Kate Watson-Smyth will discuss, debate and guide you through the top trends and hottest topics from the home front. DULUX COLOUR OF THE YEAR 2020 The other big trend was the use of horizontal lines – partly because the whole colour palette is based around the lines between the sky and ground (that’d be the horizon then) and partly because decorating, as I have mentioned several times before, has become much more about colour blocking and using different colours on different parts of thewall.
EIGHT OF THE BEST BOUTIQUE STORES Next in this mini directory series, we come to the boutique stores, which is a fancy way of saying those shops that sell a mix of vintage and modern, electic and unusual and can’t really be defined as any one particular thing. Their personality is usually10 BEAUTIFUL ROOMS
10 Beautiful Rooms. Morning everyone and welcome to this week’s edition of 10 Beautiful Rooms. As usual there’s no overriding theme, just a collection of spaces that have caught my eye and which I thought you might enjoy and which might spark inspiration for your own homes. burgundy and wood image via conran + partners. HOUSE TOUR WITH COOKERY WRITER SKYE MCALPINE Skye and Ben removed all the walls, reinstated the cornicing and details and installed a creamy yellow kitchen at the back and a long dining table at the front. “The table will seat 10 comfortably and I wanted flexible space. It is all about the table – it’s the most important piece of furniture in the house because it is where we live 10 THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT: MID-CENTURY MODERN 3 It wasn’t just about wooden furniture though. Mid-Century Modern was also highly innovative, with plastic being used in mass production for the first time as well as metal, glass and plywood. panton chair by vitra. 4 Often materials were juxtaposed in a way that hadn’t been seen before; so glass coffee tables with wooden legs – Noguchi BATHROOM TRENDS: COLOUR IS BACK Yes, it’s true. There is a gradual move towards bringing back the coloured bathroom suite. But hang on. DON’T PANIC at the back there – it’s not going to be about the 1970s which involved a peach corner bath and a shag pile carpet – we actually had a bathroom like that for a while – it’s going to be colour for the 21st century. MONDAY INSPIRATION: HOW WE REACT EMOTIONALLY TO COLOUR I’ve said before that when decorating a room you need to find the colours you love but also to work out how they make you feel. We react to colour in one, or two, of three ways – culturally (for the Dutch orange can be football, while for the US it might be prison), physically (a gut reaction to a colour that is instinctive – for me it’s primrose yellow that I don’t like) andRICE BAG PLANTERS
Objects Of Design #85: Fair Trade Recycled Rice Bag. 24th May 2012. AD / May contain affiliate links. Perfect for a window sill herb garden, these old rice bags are individually made in Cambodia and no two are the same, although you can specify the colours you would prefer. They are around 13cm high and 15cm wide so eventually you’ll have toMAD ABOUT THE HOUSE
The Househunter: A former Stables in the City. There’s something so romantic about this former stables which has been converted into a two bedroom house and which looks like it belongs deep in the French countryside. But it’s actually in Canning Cross in the Camberwellconservation area.
THE GREAT INDOORS PODCAST The Great Indoors is a celebration of all things interiors and everything you need to know about making your house a home. In each episode, TV presenter and designer Sophie Robinson and best-selling author and journalist Kate Watson-Smyth will discuss, debate and guide you through the top trends and hottest topics from the home front. DULUX COLOUR OF THE YEAR 2020 The other big trend was the use of horizontal lines – partly because the whole colour palette is based around the lines between the sky and ground (that’d be the horizon then) and partly because decorating, as I have mentioned several times before, has become much more about colour blocking and using different colours on different parts of thewall.
EIGHT OF THE BEST BOUTIQUE STORES Next in this mini directory series, we come to the boutique stores, which is a fancy way of saying those shops that sell a mix of vintage and modern, electic and unusual and can’t really be defined as any one particular thing. Their personality is usually10 BEAUTIFUL ROOMS
10 Beautiful Rooms. Morning everyone and welcome to this week’s edition of 10 Beautiful Rooms. As usual there’s no overriding theme, just a collection of spaces that have caught my eye and which I thought you might enjoy and which might spark inspiration for your own homes. burgundy and wood image via conran + partners. HOUSE TOUR WITH COOKERY WRITER SKYE MCALPINE Skye and Ben removed all the walls, reinstated the cornicing and details and installed a creamy yellow kitchen at the back and a long dining table at the front. “The table will seat 10 comfortably and I wanted flexible space. It is all about the table – it’s the most important piece of furniture in the house because it is where we live 10 THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT: MID-CENTURY MODERN 3 It wasn’t just about wooden furniture though. Mid-Century Modern was also highly innovative, with plastic being used in mass production for the first time as well as metal, glass and plywood. panton chair by vitra. 4 Often materials were juxtaposed in a way that hadn’t been seen before; so glass coffee tables with wooden legs – Noguchi BATHROOM TRENDS: COLOUR IS BACK Yes, it’s true. There is a gradual move towards bringing back the coloured bathroom suite. But hang on. DON’T PANIC at the back there – it’s not going to be about the 1970s which involved a peach corner bath and a shag pile carpet – we actually had a bathroom like that for a while – it’s going to be colour for the 21st century. MONDAY INSPIRATION: HOW WE REACT EMOTIONALLY TO COLOUR I’ve said before that when decorating a room you need to find the colours you love but also to work out how they make you feel. We react to colour in one, or two, of three ways – culturally (for the Dutch orange can be football, while for the US it might be prison), physically (a gut reaction to a colour that is instinctive – for me it’s primrose yellow that I don’t like) andRICE BAG PLANTERS
Objects Of Design #85: Fair Trade Recycled Rice Bag. 24th May 2012. AD / May contain affiliate links. Perfect for a window sill herb garden, these old rice bags are individually made in Cambodia and no two are the same, although you can specify the colours you would prefer. They are around 13cm high and 15cm wide so eventually you’ll have to ABOUT ME AND CONTACT Welcome to The Mad House. I’m Kate Watson-Smyth, a journalist who’s been writing about property, interiors and design in national newspapers for the last 20 years. I spent about 15 of them at The Independent but have also worked regularly for The Financial Times (where I won Lifestyle/Interiors writer of the year at the 2013Property Press
MY HOUSE - MAD ABOUT THE HOUSE The Househunter: The House of My Dreams (No 1) It seems fitting and, perhaps weirdly coincidental, that today, five years since I last went to New York and on the first full day of BlogTourNYC, that I have found this house to show you. For this is my dream house. This iswhere I
VINTAGE WOOD
Well what a week. I spent most of it filming for something that I will tell you all about in September and then my in-laws came for the weekend; the first time they have been here since 2019. FIVE INTERIORS TRENDS TO LOOK OUT FOR IN 2021 FIVE INTERIORS TRENDS TO LOOK OUT FOR IN 2021. Normally at this time of year I would be heading off to Paris to visit the Maison e Objet trade show to see what looks the designers are predicting for the months and year ahead. Obviously in the current circumstances I’m barely allowed to the end of the road, never mind abroad so I havebeen
A GUIDE TO BUYING CARPET CHOOSING YOUR CARPET. Stair carpet needs to be hard-wearing so a twist or a cut pile carpet is a good choice as it’s more resistant to crushing than, say a loop carpet. A mix of 80 per cent wool and 20 per cent nylon is also a good choice for stairs which, incidentally, was MONDAY INSPIRATION: BEAUTIFUL ROOMS Well pull up a chair (or a curved sofa) who’s been watching Halston? It’s a five part drama on Netflix about the fashion designer who started out as a milliner (finding fame after Jackie Kennedy wore one of his pillbox hats for the presidential inauguration) and went on to dominate the fashion of the 70s HOUSE TOUR WITH RACHEL KHOO rachel khoo hidden door. There is a small upholstered box in here which is actually a single sofa bed. This means that there are two bedrooms – when needed – and Rachel, her husband, and her two children (the baby is currently in a cot) can all stay here together. Back out into the hall and Rachel added this mirrored telephone boxdoor to
A NEW INTERIORS STORE FOR THE UK Vivense is a Turkish company that sells well-designed affordable furniture from a mix of its own designers and others it has cherry-picked from around the world.In one canny marriage of the two great giants of furniture design, it works closely with an Italian designer, Emanuele Patton, who lives in AN INTERVIEW WITH JAY BLADES, PRESENTER OF THE REPAIR SHOP And this is a trailer for the show itself if you haven’t listened before and aren’t, generally speaking, a listener of podcasts. With huge thanks to our sponsor Geberit for supporting the podcast so enthusiastically during this difficult period. Elsewhere on the show Sophie and I discuss our fantasy houses – we’re over lockdown we want to talk design dreams – and some simple ideas FIVE OF THE BEST BEDSIDE TABLES cox and cox black metal bedside cabinet £275. That said, I know that some of you will always want storage and this is a rather good little number. Made from black metal it has two drawers, you can see the floor which makes the whole thing look lighter and will make the room look less cluttered and it has leather handles for a really niceMAD ABOUT THE HOUSE
The Househunter: A former Stables in the City. There’s something so romantic about this former stables which has been converted into a two bedroom house and which looks like it belongs deep in the French countryside. But it’s actually in Canning Cross in the Camberwellconservation area.
THE GREAT INDOORS PODCAST The Great Indoors is a celebration of all things interiors and everything you need to know about making your house a home. In each episode, TV presenter and designer Sophie Robinson and best-selling author and journalist Kate Watson-Smyth will discuss, debate and guide you through the top trends and hottest topics from the home front. DULUX COLOUR OF THE YEAR 2020 The other big trend was the use of horizontal lines – partly because the whole colour palette is based around the lines between the sky and ground (that’d be the horizon then) and partly because decorating, as I have mentioned several times before, has become much more about colour blocking and using different colours on different parts of thewall.
EIGHT OF THE BEST BOUTIQUE STORES Next in this mini directory series, we come to the boutique stores, which is a fancy way of saying those shops that sell a mix of vintage and modern, electic and unusual and can’t really be defined as any one particular thing. Their personality is usually10 BEAUTIFUL ROOMS
10 Beautiful Rooms. Morning everyone and welcome to this week’s edition of 10 Beautiful Rooms. As usual there’s no overriding theme, just a collection of spaces that have caught my eye and which I thought you might enjoy and which might spark inspiration for your own homes. burgundy and wood image via conran + partners. HOUSE TOUR WITH COOKERY WRITER SKYE MCALPINE Skye and Ben removed all the walls, reinstated the cornicing and details and installed a creamy yellow kitchen at the back and a long dining table at the front. “The table will seat 10 comfortably and I wanted flexible space. It is all about the table – it’s the most important piece of furniture in the house because it is where we live BATHROOM TRENDS: COLOUR IS BACK Yes, it’s true. There is a gradual move towards bringing back the coloured bathroom suite. But hang on. DON’T PANIC at the back there – it’s not going to be about the 1970s which involved a peach corner bath and a shag pile carpet – we actually had a bathroom like that for a while – it’s going to be colour for the 21st century. 10 THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT: MID-CENTURY MODERN 3 It wasn’t just about wooden furniture though. Mid-Century Modern was also highly innovative, with plastic being used in mass production for the first time as well as metal, glass and plywood. panton chair by vitra. 4 Often materials were juxtaposed in a way that hadn’t been seen before; so glass coffee tables with wooden legs – Noguchi MONDAY INSPIRATION: HOW WE REACT EMOTIONALLY TO COLOUR I’ve said before that when decorating a room you need to find the colours you love but also to work out how they make you feel. We react to colour in one, or two, of three ways – culturally (for the Dutch orange can be football, while for the US it might be prison), physically (a gut reaction to a colour that is instinctive – for me it’s primrose yellow that I don’t like) andRICE BAG PLANTERS
Objects Of Design #85: Fair Trade Recycled Rice Bag. 24th May 2012. AD / May contain affiliate links. Perfect for a window sill herb garden, these old rice bags are individually made in Cambodia and no two are the same, although you can specify the colours you would prefer. They are around 13cm high and 15cm wide so eventually you’ll have toMAD ABOUT THE HOUSE
The Househunter: A former Stables in the City. There’s something so romantic about this former stables which has been converted into a two bedroom house and which looks like it belongs deep in the French countryside. But it’s actually in Canning Cross in the Camberwellconservation area.
THE GREAT INDOORS PODCAST The Great Indoors is a celebration of all things interiors and everything you need to know about making your house a home. In each episode, TV presenter and designer Sophie Robinson and best-selling author and journalist Kate Watson-Smyth will discuss, debate and guide you through the top trends and hottest topics from the home front. DULUX COLOUR OF THE YEAR 2020 The other big trend was the use of horizontal lines – partly because the whole colour palette is based around the lines between the sky and ground (that’d be the horizon then) and partly because decorating, as I have mentioned several times before, has become much more about colour blocking and using different colours on different parts of thewall.
EIGHT OF THE BEST BOUTIQUE STORES Next in this mini directory series, we come to the boutique stores, which is a fancy way of saying those shops that sell a mix of vintage and modern, electic and unusual and can’t really be defined as any one particular thing. Their personality is usually10 BEAUTIFUL ROOMS
10 Beautiful Rooms. Morning everyone and welcome to this week’s edition of 10 Beautiful Rooms. As usual there’s no overriding theme, just a collection of spaces that have caught my eye and which I thought you might enjoy and which might spark inspiration for your own homes. burgundy and wood image via conran + partners. HOUSE TOUR WITH COOKERY WRITER SKYE MCALPINE Skye and Ben removed all the walls, reinstated the cornicing and details and installed a creamy yellow kitchen at the back and a long dining table at the front. “The table will seat 10 comfortably and I wanted flexible space. It is all about the table – it’s the most important piece of furniture in the house because it is where we live BATHROOM TRENDS: COLOUR IS BACK Yes, it’s true. There is a gradual move towards bringing back the coloured bathroom suite. But hang on. DON’T PANIC at the back there – it’s not going to be about the 1970s which involved a peach corner bath and a shag pile carpet – we actually had a bathroom like that for a while – it’s going to be colour for the 21st century. 10 THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT: MID-CENTURY MODERN 3 It wasn’t just about wooden furniture though. Mid-Century Modern was also highly innovative, with plastic being used in mass production for the first time as well as metal, glass and plywood. panton chair by vitra. 4 Often materials were juxtaposed in a way that hadn’t been seen before; so glass coffee tables with wooden legs – Noguchi MONDAY INSPIRATION: HOW WE REACT EMOTIONALLY TO COLOUR I’ve said before that when decorating a room you need to find the colours you love but also to work out how they make you feel. We react to colour in one, or two, of three ways – culturally (for the Dutch orange can be football, while for the US it might be prison), physically (a gut reaction to a colour that is instinctive – for me it’s primrose yellow that I don’t like) andRICE BAG PLANTERS
Objects Of Design #85: Fair Trade Recycled Rice Bag. 24th May 2012. AD / May contain affiliate links. Perfect for a window sill herb garden, these old rice bags are individually made in Cambodia and no two are the same, although you can specify the colours you would prefer. They are around 13cm high and 15cm wide so eventually you’ll have to ABOUT ME AND CONTACT Welcome to The Mad House. I’m Kate Watson-Smyth, a journalist who’s been writing about property, interiors and design in national newspapers for the last 20 years. I spent about 15 of them at The Independent but have also worked regularly for The Financial Times (where I won Lifestyle/Interiors writer of the year at the 2013Property Press
MY HOUSE - MAD ABOUT THE HOUSE The Househunter: The House of My Dreams (No 1) It seems fitting and, perhaps weirdly coincidental, that today, five years since I last went to New York and on the first full day of BlogTourNYC, that I have found this house to show you. For this is my dream house. This iswhere I
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After a year of lockdowns when so many stores and businesses have pivoted to online only, it was exciting to hear about a new brand that has just opened up a showroom in London with plans to open more in each corner of the city over the next year so for today’s Ad breakI’m
A GUIDE TO BUYING CARPET CHOOSING YOUR CARPET. Stair carpet needs to be hard-wearing so a twist or a cut pile carpet is a good choice as it’s more resistant to crushing than, say a loop carpet. A mix of 80 per cent wool and 20 per cent nylon is also a good choice for stairs which, incidentally, was MONDAY INSPIRATION: BEAUTIFUL ROOMS Well pull up a chair (or a curved sofa) who’s been watching Halston? It’s a five part drama on Netflix about the fashion designer who started out as a milliner (finding fame after Jackie Kennedy wore one of his pillbox hats for the presidential inauguration) and went on to dominate the fashion of the 70s FIVE INTERIORS TRENDS TO LOOK OUT FOR IN 2021 FIVE INTERIORS TRENDS TO LOOK OUT FOR IN 2021. Normally at this time of year I would be heading off to Paris to visit the Maison e Objet trade show to see what looks the designers are predicting for the months and year ahead. Obviously in the current circumstances I’m barely allowed to the end of the road, never mind abroad so I havebeen
HOUSE TOUR WITH RACHEL KHOO rachel khoo hidden door. There is a small upholstered box in here which is actually a single sofa bed. This means that there are two bedrooms – when needed – and Rachel, her husband, and her two children (the baby is currently in a cot) can all stay here together. Back out into the hall and Rachel added this mirrored telephone boxdoor to
A NEW INTERIORS STORE FOR THE UK Vivense is a Turkish company that sells well-designed affordable furniture from a mix of its own designers and others it has cherry-picked from around the world.In one canny marriage of the two great giants of furniture design, it works closely with an Italian designer, Emanuele Patton, who lives in THE HOUSEHUNTER: FRANK SINATRA OR WES ANDERSON? Bit of a treat for you this week with a tour of Frank Sinatra’s Palm Desert home, which is for sale, versus the house that starred in Wes Anderson’s film The Royal Tenenbaums which is available to rent. So this week instead of imagining our film scripts for the houses we havethem ready made
FIVE OF THE BEST BEDSIDE TABLES cox and cox black metal bedside cabinet £275. That said, I know that some of you will always want storage and this is a rather good little number. Made from black metal it has two drawers, you can see the floor which makes the whole thing look lighter and will make the room look less cluttered and it has leather handles for a really nice This website needs cookies to work correctly. Click the ACCEPT button to use cookies or click Read More for additional info.ACCEPT Read More
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THE HOUSEHUNTER: ROOM BY ROOM15th May 2020
I’ve had to hunt about a bit this week to find you something you might think it was worth getting your virtual coat on for (not to mention shoes – what even are they and how do they feel?) but this is a very pretty house in north west London that is on the market…Read More...
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For all the fact that the days are blurring into one they seem to be going really fast don’t they? Just me? I can’t believe the podcast has come around again so fast. This week we were supposed to travel to Shropshire to meet furniture restorer, upcycler, sustainable designer and, more recently, television presenter Jay…Read More...
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365 Objects Of Design HOW TO CHOOSE THE PERFECT DESK12th May 2020
As we slog on through this lockdown amid what is clearly some of the most unclear advice I have ever come across I shall try to keep this blog a haven of clarity and sensible information when it comes to your homes. Over the last couple of months I have written about how towork…
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MONDAY INSPIRATION: POST PANDEMIC DESIGN – ALL WHITE NOW?11th May 2020
Do you remember when grey really took off as a colour? One minute we were all happily sloshing on the magnolia and then, suddenly, we had all, as it were, faded to grey. I wrote a feature for The Independent in 2009 after interviewing a Dulux spokesperson whole told me thatgrey was the new…
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THE HOUSEHUNTER: ROOM BY ROOM – THE PERFECT ONE BEDROOM FLAT8th May 2020
I adore this little flat. From the way it has been decorated to the pretty pink walls outside. It’s a one bedroom flat in Bristol and it’s on the market for £350,000 with The Modern House. If the 19yo were studying in Bristol instead of Manchester…. But he isn’t – not that anyone is studying…Read More...
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365 Objects Of Design 5 SMALL BUSINESSES YOU MIGHT LIKE AND HOW YOU CAN HELP IN OTHER WAYS7th May 2020
Now I don’t know about you but as we wade through the seventh week of lockdown, I have started to look at the shops again. It’s been a dilemma – should we shop anything other than essentials? Is it wrong to shop when so many people are struggling to buy food? Is it wrongto…
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10 THINGS I HATE ABOUT YOU (MY HOUSE): THE UGLY TILES5th May 2020
One of the things I am often asked about is ugly tiles – particularly in rental homes where it isn’t always possible to replace them. It can also be hard to change tiles on fireplaces without ripping the whole thing out and even if you own a property it’s an upheaval to rip them off…Read More...
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MONDAY INSPIRATION: A CHAIR OF MY OWN4th May 2020
Many of you will be familiar with Virginia Woolf’s 1929 essay, A Room of One’s Own, which talks about the need for women to have money and a room of their own if they are to write fiction. As we in the UK enter our seventh week of lockdown, I suggest that the 21stcentury…
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THE HOUSEHUNTER: ROOM BY ROOM – CONCRETE AND ANTIQUES1st May 2020
On the face of it not a property I would normally consider, but actually I love this. It must be lockdown mania – in the same way I suddenly want to paint my kitchen ochre yellow, it now seems I want to live in a concrete bunker. Well, a very posh concrete outhouse, asit…
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LOCKDOWN LIGHTING TIPS AND DECORATING IDEAS30th April 2020
The remote recording of the podcast continues and this week Sophie and I repaired to our respective duvet tents for this episode of The Great Indoors in which we discuss ideas for lockdown decorating and I interview Sally Storey, the design director of John Cullen Lighting, on “decorating with light” as well as rounding up…Read More...
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