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How To Be Mad About Your House
Finding inspiration: the clothes store
with KATE WATSON-SMYTH — Design expert, journalist, best-selling author. Creator of UK's #1 interiors blog and podcast.
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Clothing stores can be a great source of inspiration. Kate takes you to Anthropologie and discusses how clothing stores can provide inspiration for your home and can help you choose colours, shapes, and patterns.
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Finding Inspiration: The Clothes Store
Clothing stores combine colours and patterns in ways you may be able to use in your home. When it comes to colour, it's really important to analyse how you feel. Black and white can really ground a space when paired with other colours.
You can add colour and texture to your bathroom by adding patterned towels. Everywhere you look in a clothes store, there are colours and patterns that you can adapt and pair with your own home decor.
Your Assignment
Go to a clothes store you love and really interact with the clothes. Begin to think about what it is that you like about the clothes and ask yourself the following questions.
- Is it the bright bold pattern?
- Do you like tiny ditzy fabrics and patterns?
- The classic cut of the clothing?
- Begin to analyse how you feel
- Do loads of bright colours make you feel happy?
Make sure to take pictures of your favourite colour and texture combinations so you can refer back to them later.
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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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