Mad about the house

Kate Watson-Smyth and Sophie Robinson interview interior designer Nicola Harding and discuss making do for the Great Indoors podcast

If I had to choose one plant to add to your potting list this year, hands down it’s the Geranium. While other cultures (from Scandinavian to Italian) have embraced this deliciously scented classic for decades or longer, here in the States, it’s always been seen as a bit of a ‘common’ flower. But thanks to […]

I have always been so intrigued to take a peek into others pantry spaces. They can be as grand or as minimal, and everyone has their own definition of what a pantry is and what it is used for. So today I am sharing 5 pantry scroll stoppers! I have a feeling some of these photos may shock you but that's what is so fun about these scroll stoppers blog posts! if this is your first time viewing this series, you may be wondering what a scroll stopper is. In this weekly blog post series, I share 5…

Kate Watson-Smyth explores beautiful kitchen and bathroom design, the hardest to get right, the most expensive and yet the most important rooms in the house

Kate Watson-Smyth aka madaboutthehouse.com looks at 5 Small Businesses to help during the lockdown and how you can help in other ways

The new episode of the podcast, The Great Indoors, is out today and today, for the first time, we have managed to bring you pictures and words so you can look or listen or, perhaps, do both. Sophie and I were thrilled to be invited to the Somerset home of…

Monday Inspiration: Ormiston House dark blue walls wooden floorboards

Today an edited extract from my latest book The Planner because, between now and 23 December, if you buy my online course you will receive a free copy which means, should you have cause to be buying presents for any reason over the next few weeks (ahem) you can give…

This week on the podcast, Sophie and I have done a fairly deep dive into eco paints. She was mostly enraged that there is no industry standard and everyone does what they want so we have looked into the subject in more depth to try and understand what's what and…

Ok stop all the clocks and cut off the telephones and all that - this is the one. It's a two bedroom house in east London and while it's more expensive than last week - and sadly the lack of space means we won't be sharing it - it's so…