Mad About the House Planner: Your Home, Your Story

by Kate Watson-Smyth

Overview

Interiors expert Kate Watson-Smyth brings you the Mad About the House Planner for everything you need to know when renovating your home. With more and more of us working from home and spending more time in the house, it's more important than ever that our homes are adaptable and welcoming.

Packed with Kate's knowledge and enthusiasm, this journal offers you ways to renovate your home room by room, with a focus on sustainability and money-saving tips. Also included in this handy planner are accounts pages to note down what you're spending money on – and when – as you renovate, an address book for useful contacts and tradesmen, checklists for all the essentials in each room, grid pages to draw your own floorplans and space to jot down your favourite shops, inspiration and websites. Beautifully packaged with ribbon markers, this is a journal to treasure and keep a record of your home's journey.

Chapters include:
First Things First – planning your home: who will be using the space, when, where and how? Plus tips for the big move-in day
The Entrance Hall – how to create the perfect hallway; stairs, carpets and storage solutions
The Kitchen – planning the space, kitchen appliance tips and how to upscale a cheap kitchen
The Bathroom – where to spend and where to save, carrying your style into the bathroom
The Living Room – making the best use of the space, tips for flooring and rugs; buying vintage and salvaging preloved furniture
The Main Bedroom – reflecting your sleeping habits in your colour scheme, ideal storage and lighting solutions
The Second Bedroom – how to create the perfect nursery or spare room, how to adapt the room as your family grows up
The Third Bedroom – how to create the ideal room for teenagers and guests
The Home Office – working from home is here to stay, so decorate to create the best working environment for you.
Your Home, Your Lists: packed with Kate’s tips for upscaling your home and go-to places, plus space to add your own favourites, make lists and budget sheets.

 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781911663522
Publisher:	HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date:	03/18/2021
Pages:	160
Product dimensions:	7.70(w) x 9.30(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Kate Watson-Smyth is an award-winning journalist who has written extensively on interiors and design for publications including the Financial Times, The Independent, and the Sunday Telegraph and she has a monthly interiors column in Red. Her home has been featured in the The Wall Street Journal, la Repubblica, Elle Decoration, Livingetc and Remodelista. Kate’s acclaimed website, madaboutthehouse.com, founded in 2012, is officially the UK’s No. 1 interiors blog. The Great Indoors – which she co-hosts with Sophie Robinson – is the nation’s most popular interiors podcast. Kate has written two other bestselling books, Mad About the House: How to Decorate Your Home with Style (2018) and Mad About the House: 101 Interior Design Answers (2020). @mad_about_the_house has 242k IG followers.

Table of Contents

Your Home, Your Story 6

1 First Things First 10

2 The Entrance Hall - the first place you see, the last place you should decorate 26

3 The Kitchen - the heart of the home and the room that needs the most planning 40

4 The Bathroom - the first room you should tackle 54

5 The Living Room - the space that's the least thought through but the most important 68

6 The Main Bedroom - it's all about the floor plan in here 82

7 The Second Bedroom - an evolving space for a nursery and toddler 96

8 The Third Bedroom - guests and teens will leave and you will have space 110

9 The Home Office - when you're working from home, the space needs to work for you 124

10 Your Home, Your Lists - general tips, useful lists and the address book 138