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The Great Indoors

116: Style Surgery: Imposter Syndrome and Your Questions Answered

The Great Indoors

Kate Taylor

Arts, Design, Society & Culture

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

In our monthly style surgery Kate and Sophie begin by pondering on the phenomena of Imposter Syndrome, and with her new dream kitchen installed, Sophie is left feeling like an imposter in her own home! Help is at hand for listeners design dilemmas with concerns over open plan versus broken plan, what to pair with a purple quartz worktop and how does one create an elegant and calming interior. And it’s this topic that has out hosts disagreeing agreeably. Thanks to our sponsors Naturalmat for supporting the podcast To learn more about Naturalmat's organic beds and mattresses, head to their website at naturalmat.co.uk, or visit one of their showrooms in London, Devon and the Cotswolds. Listeners can receive 10% off their first order with Naturalmat, either online, in-store or over the phone, by using the code GREATINDOORS10, valid until 31st August 2023. To sign up to one of Sophie’s online interior design courses visit https://courses.sophierobinson.co.uk/ To join Kates interior online course hosted by Create Academy visit https://www.createacademy.com/courses/kate-watson-smyth Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

What has only taken you a hundred and seventeen episodes to put the scripts in the script folder?

0:12.0

Can I just say, why? Why do you bury the scripts in a whole separate place?

0:17.0

I'm going to take that script folder out of that hidden place. I'm going to put this somewhere obvious.

0:21.0

Yeah, we could put scripts at the top of the folder.

0:24.0

Do you know that would be like a revolutionary thing to do, right then?

0:28.0

I'm going! Hello and welcome to The Great Indoor.

0:33.0

The podcast which reveals everything you ever needed to know about interiors and explains how to make it all really work for you in your home.

0:40.0

I'm Kate Watson-Smith and I'm Sophie Robinson.

0:43.0

And before we begin, we wanted to introduce you to our lovely new sponsors, Natural Matt, who make beds and mattresses by hand in Devon.

0:53.0

Using natural, organic and renewable materials with absolutely zero chemicals, synthetics or blues.

1:01.0

Did you know their mattresses can be found in some of the top hotels around the world, including the fabulous Hoxton,

1:08.0

as well as boutique getaways such as the bull in and Totteness and the Rose in Deal.

1:13.0

Oh, I've stayed in a couple of those. I'll admit I had a very good night's sleep.

1:17.0

Natural Matt also work with interior designers as they can make everything themselves.

1:21.0

So they can accommodate pretty much any bespoke request from custom-shaped headboards to pattern matching the most intricate fabrics.

1:29.0

Customers can choose from natural Matt selection of in-house organic fabrics or supply their very own.

1:35.0

Yes, I used natural Matt for a big project I did in Central London last year.

1:39.0

I was consulting on five apartments in a listed building.

1:42.0

And we wanted to make everything as sustainable as we could.

1:45.0

So in addition to using vintage furniture and eco paint, we also specified natural Matt for all the beds.

1:51.0

So to learn more about natural Matt's organic beds and mattresses, head to their website, naturalmat.co.uk,

1:58.0

or visit one of their showrooms in either London, Devon or the Cutswells.

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