Mad about the house

Kate Watson-Smyth looks at various layout options within an intwerior and how to get it right - from entrance halls and false walls to small details.

A gorgeous colour-drenched house for you this week but one where we are very definitely not looking at the price unless some of you are much richer than you have been letting on. This last one before the annual summer break when the housing market goes very quiet (and this…

Owned by the renowned London-based wine merchants Berry Bros. & Rudd, No.1 St James is a residential apartment block which has recently been redeveloped. Paying homage to the building's heritage was a key factor in the redesign, thanks to developers Obbard and design expert Kate Watson-Smyth.

I’m slightly obsessed with What3Words. It’s an app that describes your location to a precise spot of about three square metres using three random words. It doesn’t take you to there - for that you need to use a map – but it was designed to be useful, for example…

Since we all universally loved this house I thought, for the final archive post of the month, it would be fun to come back and look around again. I hope you have enjoyed revisiting some of this content during the summer and I'll see you back here on Monday with…

If you ever read blog post titles this one may not mean that much to you but if I show you the pantry that possibly broke the internet it may seem more familiar. This narrow pantry was pinned and admired by everyone. My mother-in-law got contractors' quotes to recreate it,…

Sometimes the joy of a collection of inspiration images is that precisely that there is no theme - it is just that: a seemingly random group of pictures that have caught my eye during the week and that I feel you will like or be similarly interested in. But then…

This was one of the most popular Monday posts this year. I did a regional round-up of beautiful rooms starting with the north and everyone enjoyed a stroll through. Here they are again and if you check the accounts some of the rooms have changed - in particular Lisa's Dawson's…

A sightly random selection for you this week although is anything ever really random? Bit early in the week for an existential discussion on the natural of randomness (although if you've ever tried to lay tiles without the brain forcing you into semblance of a pattern I'd be interested to…

I had thought of trying to find a white modern palette cleanser for you today after the reaction to the Wow!house on Wednesday but instead I found this and I liked it more. To address that - yes it is full on but it is also a showcase for the…