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How To Be Mad About Your House

with Kate Watson-Smyth
Transform any space into a unique home that works for you. Gain the confidence to avoid the trend pitfalls and decorate rooms filled with personality.
29 lessons
workbook
5 hours
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What's Included

Creating your own style

Creating your own style

Designing a functional space

Designing a functional space

Working with pattern and colour

Working with pattern and colour

Kate’s unique design principles

Kate’s unique design principles

Learn from Kate Watson-Smyth

Interiors expert, journalist and author Kate Watson-Smyth – best known as the creator of the UK’s No1 interiors blog MadAboutTheHouse.com – shares her expert knowledge in creating a home that works for you, your family and your budget. This down-to-earth, practical guide will help you tackle all the rooms in your home, encouraging you to express yourself through design no matter how big or...

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Kate Watson-Smyth
How To Be Mad About Your House

I wanted to do this course to help you find your way through all the inspiration out there so that you can find your style and create a home that works perfectly for you and the people you live with so it will support you in everything you do.

Kate Watson-Smyth

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Lesson Plan

29 LESSONs / 5 HOURs

Meet Kate

Meet Kate

Kate welcomes you to the course, explaining her journey into interior design journalism and her number one British interior design blog Mad About the House. She outlines how you can create attainable, yet beautiful interiors and pushes you to think more critically about how your home operates.

Where to start

Where to start

​​Starting a new project can feel like a daunting task. The first step to getting to know your home is asking yourself the right questions. Kate shows you where to begin and how to do so.

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Where to find inspiration

Where to find inspiration

Inspiration really is everywhere. From your wardrobe to your favourite restaurant’s loo. Kate empowers you to go out and get inspired and get decisive with your colour and pattern decisions.

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Finding inspiration: the boutique hotels

Finding inspiration: the boutique hotels

Kate visits The Artist Residence hotel in Pimlico, London, showing you how boutique hotels can be a great source of inspiration for your home decor.

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Finding inspiration: the department store

Finding inspiration: the department store

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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Finding inspiration: the clothes store

Finding inspiration: the clothes store

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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Kate’s mantra

Kate’s mantra

Kate explains her decorating mantra and how you can use it to bring dimension and intrigue into your house.

Finding your red thread

Finding your red thread

A home isn't designed in isolation. You should have a cohesive design throughout your home. Kate empowers you to find your own red thread in this lesson.

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