Kate and Sophie are back with listeners' monthly round up of interior design dilemmas. One listener in Texas needs ideas for how to brighten a dark kitchen. Another asks, how do you design a cosy and magical children’s bedroom for someone with asthma and dust sensitivity? And how can you help young people to find colour confidence when it comes to choosing a bedroom design? Send us your style surgery questions to help@thegreatindoorspodcast.com Become a friend of the podcast by subscribing to become a Great Indoors Insider www.thegreatindoorspodcast.com. Enjoy supporting the podcast, ad-free listening, bonus material and first dibs on any live event tickets. Become an annual subscriber and get 50% off!   You can follow Sophie on https://www.instagram.com/sophierobinsoninteriors/ You can follow Kate on https://www.instagram.com/mad_about_the_house Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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113: Style Surgery

Including the kitchen sink! Having recently undergone kitchen remodels, both Kate and Sophie are primed to share all that they know to creating that dream kitchen. From floors to walls, worktops to appliances they share what works and what you might need to consider to get the hardest working room in the house, working for you. Send us your style surgery questions to help@thegreatindoorspodcast.com Become a friend of the podcast by subscribing to become a Great Indoors Insider. www.thegreatindoorspodcast.com. Enjoy supporting the podcast, ad-free listening, bonus material and first dibs on any live event tickets. Become an annual subscriber and get 50% off! You can follow Sophie on https://www.instagram.com/sophierobinsoninteriors/ You can follow Kate on https://www.instagram.com/mad_about_the_house Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

112: Everything you need to know about kitchens

An insightful interview with head of home at Pinterest Matt Siberry has Kate and Sophie musing on who really sets the trends. Do the brands influence us or are we dictating how we want to decorate to the brands? Either way Matt holds the crystal ball with Pinterest insights at his finger tips that reveal what we are all pinning,  the colours we will be choosing as well as a few fungi surprises!  The Great Indoors goes abroad and tickets to book onto this incredible design trip to Milan and Venice in October are now live! Here is the link to follow for more details: https://www.trovatrip.com/trip/europe/italy/italy-with-sophie-kate-oct-17-2023 Don’t forget you can sign up to the The Great Indoors Insiders Club, support the podcast, enjoy ad free listening – members get a news letter to accompany this episode with our top places to source beautiful vintage, pre-loved and antique pieces. You can subscribe to be an Insider here: www.thegreatindoorspodcast.com You can follow Sophie here: @sophierobinsoninteriors You can follow Kate here: @mad_about_the_house Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

111: Matt Siberry

This week on the show we are looking at how to blend old pieces of furniture or objects within a more contemporary interior. #GrannyCore may be all the rage on Tik Tok but for those of us on the other side of 30 (possibly even 40) it’s a little too close to be ironic.  You might have inherited some furniture from your actual Granny. You might have bought antiques from someone else’s Granny and there’s an art to blending antiques and second- hand pieces that doesn't look too “junk shop”.   Don’t forget you can sign up to the The Great Indoors Insiders Club, support the podcast, enjoy ad free listening – members get a news letter to accompany this episode with our top places to source beautiful vintage, pre-loved and antique pieces. You can subscribe to be an Insider here: www.thegreatindoorspodcast.com You can follow Sophie here: @sophierobinsoninteriors You can follow Kate here: @mad_about_the_house Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

110: How to Make the Old Feel New

We don the lab coats and answer listeners' monthly round up of interior design dilemmas. Sophie asks should she go chrome or brass for her kitchen hardware, a listener wants to know if door curtains are a design crime and what can you do to tart up a noisy plastic lean- to? Other than knock it down. Send us your style surgery questions to help@thegreatindoorspodcast.com Become a friend of the podcast by subscribing to become a Great Indoors Insider. www.thegreatindoorspodcast.com. Enjoy supporting the podcast, ad-free listening, bonus material and first dibs on any live event tickets. Become an annual subscriber and get 50% off! You can follow Sophie on https://www.instagram.com/sophierobinsoninteriors/ You can follow Kate on https://www.instagram.com/mad_about_the_house Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

109: Style Surgery: Brass or chrome, door curtains and plastic lean-to’s

While Sophie starts her mini renovation by smashing huge holes in the side of her house to make way for some sexy new glazed doors, Kate is just back from Turin. She’s picked up the keys to her 30 year dream, a place in Italy, and there are squeals of delight and horror as it dawns on her that she’s starting another renovation project before the dust has even settled at home. For those in need of some interior inspiration, be they big plans or small, we review the latest crop of design books to inform you on the best way to do it. Home the Way we live now, by some unknown author, Kate Watson-Smyth https://www.instagram.com/mad_about_the_house/ 70’s house by Estelle Bilson https://www.instagram.com/70shousemanchester/ The Handbook of home design by Laura Jane Clark https://www.instagram.com/laurajaneclark_/?hl=en Interior Design masters by Joanna Thornhill. https://www.instagram.com/joannathornhillstylist/ To become a Great Indoors podcast Insider you can sign up and subscribe at www.thegreatindoorspodcast.com. Enjoy supporting the podcast, ad-free listening, bonus material and first dibs on any live event tickets. Become an annual subscriber and get 50% off! You can follow Sophie on https://www.instagram.com/sophierobinsoninteriors/ You can follow Kate on https://www.instagram.com/mad_about_the_house Send us your style surgery questions to help@thegreatindoorspodcast.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

108: Latest Spring Book Reviews

With cucumbers and lettuces disappearing fast from British supermarket shelves don’t say we are not the only ones who have thought its about time we grow our own. We are delighted to bring to you the absolute joy monger that is Rekha Mistry, food and garden writer and presenter on Gardeners World. Whether you are going full on walled vegetable garden, or thinking of starting with a few pots, Rekha shares her expert insights from the genius of stubby carrots to pickling your glut of beans. You can follow Rekha on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/rekha.garden.kitchen/?hl=en Or buy her book Rekha's Kitchen Garden https://www.amazon.co.uk/Rekhas-Kitchen-Garden-Home-Grown-Gardeners/dp/0241558360 To become a Great Indoors podcast Insider you can sign up and subscribe at www.thegreatindoorspodcast.com. Enjoy supporting the podcast, ad-free listening, bonus material and first dibs on any live event tickets. Become an annual subscriber and get 50% off! You can follow Sophie on https://www.instagram.com/sophierobinsoninteriors/ You can follow Kate on https://www.instagram.com/mad_about_the_house Send us your style surgery questions to help@thegreatindoorspodcast.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

107: Grow your own with Rekha Mistry

Kate and Sophie address the issue of how to save money on your build with help from Tom, Sophie’s builder husband, who took time out from his own build - and broken down truck - to offer his calm and safe advice while Kate mostly runs around panicking that her worktop delivery is delayed. Is it, in fact, behind Tom’s broken down truck? Listen in for some really good advice. And drama.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

106: Managing your build and budget

Kate and Sophie share their trade secrets and the contents of their address books to save you 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. Tips include hacking flatpack furniture using fabric, paint and wallpaper, incorporating a tiny amount of a luxe material rather than a lot of fake and sourcing high end appliances at knock-down prices. A must listen for all those with champagne tastes and lemonade budgets. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

105: Industry Secrets

Sophie is full of the joys of Spring and plans to tidy up her garden so she can take coffee on the patio while Kate, having just renovated her windows and replaced her boiler and radiators is quite happy for Winter to carry on for a bit longer especially as her garden is full of renovation rubble. This week on the show the pair interview Jules Haines, of The Haines Collection, who is on a quest to reduce waste in the interior design industry one metre of a fabric at a time. To date she has saved over 22,000m of material (that’s enough to make more than 10,000 pairs of jeans). With 42 per cent of all textiles in UK landfill coming from the home (the rest is fashion) Jules set up The Haines Collection in 2020, a digital platform dedicated to diverting leftover fabric from landfill by offering a portal through which brands can sell unused and leftover fabrics. We hear about what motivates Jules – how she once saved some £1000 rolls of wallpaper from a skip - which brands are trying to make a difference and how we can all do our part to help.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

104: Jules Haines

Welcome to our monthly style surgery; the episode where you get the chance to have your burning design dilemmas answered by design experts Kate and Sophie. From how to combat the acres of cream and beams in a period house to adding character to a new build, our expertise knows no bounds! The burning question though, is where should Jordon hang his wall art in his small bedroom? Could it be time for the feature wall to return? Help us decide because, it won’t surprise you to know, we can’t agree. If you have a question, you’d like answering in the listeners style surgery, please send us an amil, or better still a voice note to thegreatindoorspod@gmail.com.  Follow Kate and Sophie on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/sophierobinsoninteriors/ https://www.instagram.com/mad_about_the_house/ Join the Facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/thegreatindoorspodcast/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

103: Style Surgery: Acres of cream and beams and the art of hanging art

Don’t they say the best things come in little packages? Well that’s the topic of today’s debate as we explore the smallest rooms in our homes and make the case that they are to be cherished, indeed celebrated. With the trend setters kicking the open plan knock through off the lust list, we are all falling in love with walls again. Designers are going one step closer and putting an enormous amount of effort into our book nooks, box bedrooms closets pantries and breakfast booths. So come the tiny room revolution, you heard it here first! Follow Kate and Sophie on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/sophierobinsoninteriors/ https://www.instagram.com/mad_about_the_house/ Join the Facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/thegreatindoorspodcast/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

102: Tiny Rooms

Kate takes a break from grappling with her builders to bring you this delightful interview with the TV presenter and design writer Michelle Ogundehin. BBC One’s ‘Interior Design Masters’ returns this month, so Michelle is happy to share what’s instore this series! When she’s not bringing aspiring interior designers to task, Michelle can be mostly found tidying up! She’s just completed a month of letting things go…and has Kate chomping at the bit to get started decluttering some of her unpacked boxes. Michelle has a wonderful holistic approach to interior design, firmly rooted in exploring what makes us feel truly happy inside. It doesn’t start with a paint chart, but by carefully curating the objects in your home to tell your unique story. So many pearls of wisdom in this episode, have your notebook ready! You can find more about Michelle on Instagram @michelleogundehin Or over on substack: https://michelleogundehin.substack.com/ If you would like to apply to be on series 5 of Interior design masters its https://shortaudition.com/Interior-Design-Masters-Series-5 Follow Kate and Sophie on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/sophierobinsoninteriors/ https://www.instagram.com/mad_about_the_house/ Join the Facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/thegreatindoorspodcast/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

101: Michelle Ogundehin

Fearne Cotton's wardrobe, Kelly Hoppen's fridge and Jay Blades on the magic of mending. The death of grey, the banning of white and the utter horror of the scented candle. All this and much, much more as Kate and Sophie romp through the archives to celebrate the show's 100th episode. As long as no one mentions painted furniture... You can follow them on Instagram @sophierobinsoninteriors @mad_about_the_house or join our Facebook group The Great Indoors Podcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

100. The Best Bits of 100 Episodes!

If it’s a fight between maximalism and minimalism, then Maximalism has just pulled a right hook. In the is week’s episode of The Great indoors, Kate and Sophie drool and dissect Lily Allen’s freshly revealed Brooklyn home that went viral this month, thanks to a house tour courtesy of AD magazine. Painted murals, tiger print, pattern carpet and a pink bedroom in a cupboard should all be red flags, but wow does she pull it off! Meanwhile, learn-to-live- with-less guru Marie Kondo has thrown in the towel with clutter free living. Three children in she confesses to having better things to do with her time than constantly tidying up. Welcome to the club Marie! You can find the tour of Lily Allen’s pad here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEXXe9Ef_R8 You can follow Kate and Sophie on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/mad_about_the_house/ https://www.instagram.com/sophierobinsoninteriors/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

99: Maximalism and Lily Allen

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. So pull up a chair…

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