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Louise Brown
Apr 10, 2026
How To Be Mad About Your House
Summary
with KATE WATSON-SMYTH — Design expert, journalist, best-selling author. Creator of UK's #1 interiors blog and podcast.
Lesson 29 of 29
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As Kate closes, she encourages you to use the tools she's provided throughout this course to create a home that you love and serves you well.
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Suggested Reading and Listening
Suggested Reading
Mad About The House: How to decorate your home with style by Kate Watson Smyth
Mad About The House: 101 Interior Design Answers by Kate Watson Smyth
Mad About The House: Planner by Kate Watson Smyth
Shades of Grey: Decorating with the most elegant of neutrals by Kate Watson Smyth
Design Secrets: Adding Character and Style to an Interior to Make it Your Own by Kit Kemp
By Design: The World's Best Contemporary Interior Designers by Phaidon Editors
Podcasts
The Great Indoors
153: How we develop our unique design styles
Websites
Mad about the house
Welcome to Mad About the House — home of the Design Store
madaboutthehouse.com
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Mar 27, 2026
Very good tutorial from a professional garden designer
I have subscribed to access all the courses so have watched one on interior design and this one with Butter Wakefield who specialises in small garden design. She has a lovely personality and comes across as ...
Louise Brown
Apr 10, 2026
Time spent well
I love CreateAcademy. I came in for the gardening and floristry courses, but am also watching an interior design one at present. And the photography course is an absolute must, best I've ever done.
Wellesley
Apr 1, 2026
What a great investment
What a great investment, I have learned such a lot from the first three courses. My evenings have gone from not being able to find anything that captured my imagination on TV to learning and expanding my kno...
sojojo
Mar 30, 2026
Your Instructor
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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