How To Be Mad About Your House

Finding inspiration: the department store

with KATE WATSON-SMYTH — Design expert, journalist, best-selling author. Creator of UK's #1 interiors blog and podcast.

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Getting outside and experiencing spaces with your own eyes is important when renovating your house. Taking you on a tour of Liberty in London, Kate explores different departments and explains how the design choices can be applied in your own home.

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Kate Watson-Smyth

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Kate Watson-Smyth

Design expert, journalist, best-selling author. Creator of UK's #1 interiors blog and podcast.

Kate Watson-Smyth is an award-winning design journalist and author of the best-selling Mad About The House book series. She has spent the last 20 years writing extensively on interiors and design for publications including the Financial Times, The Independent and The Sunday Telegraph. Her home has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Elle Decoration and Livingetc, and her acclaimed website, MadAboutTheHouse.com, is officially voted the UK’s No1 interiors blog.

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