156: Designing on a Budget

The Great Indoors

Kate Taylor

Arts, Design, Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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We’re talking brass tacks in Episode 156! It’s all about designing on a budget. Where to spend, where to save, and how to make your money go further without losing style or impact. Sophie and Kate roll up their sleeves and get stuck into the juicy details... from when it’s worth splurging on designer paint and when it really isn't, to budget-friendly alternatives for tiling, taps, lighting, and even furniture. Plus, a big reminder about contingency planning and those pesky renovation surprises that can swallow your budget whole. Sophie shares her genius hack that saved thousands by painting over UPVC windows rather than replacing them, and Kate talks sensible socket placements and why your mattress or desk chair might be worth a bit of a splurge. And yes, we do kick things off with our brand new segment The Feisty Fifteen, where we get a few things off our chests… this week? Beige. Bland or brilliant? It’s packed, it’s practical, and it might just save you a fortune. Got a question for Listener’s Style Surgery? Send it in to [email protected] — we love a voice note too! Find us on Instagram @thegreatindoors.podcast @sophierobinsoninteriors @mad_about_the_house You can also watch this podcast on Youtube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLvhI9iX_bs&list=PLDfF7mwP3vj7PrNm-3-UP04KsTfP8eP42 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Let's get into it. Go.
0:10.0	Hello and welcome to The Great Endors.
0:13.0	The podcast which reveals everything you ever needed to know about interiors
0:17.0	and explains how to make it all really work for you in your home. I'm Sophie Robinson and I'm Kate
0:23.9	Watson's mind. So today Kate we are going to be talking about all things budget. That doesn't
0:31.3	sound very sexy. Oh you wait it's going to so sexy okay because most of us myself included know how to spend it i'm
0:44.3	really good on that bit really good on that bit but um yeah how you can save on your renovation
0:50.8	budget now both you and i we've got loads of experience on this so I'm quite
0:56.2	I'm feeling pumped Kate to get into it and share all our little pearls all our little gems you're
1:02.0	feeling pumped are we said are we Gen Z now are you stoked that is that is so Gen X
1:10.4	I think stoked came from, didn't it?
1:14.6	It was Australian.
1:15.6	That's it.
1:16.6	Anyhow, that could be a further topic for this next segment, which I had the idea a few days ago.
1:23.6	I was reading a lot about how beige is a color that various magazines have written about
1:32.7	how it's the fount of all evil is the beige color and it's the color of the one percenters and
1:37.7	fashion and interiors it's evil and so on and so forth and I thought well this would be one that
1:42.1	would really wind Sophie up I thought so I
1:45.3	thought well let's get into it beige as a color and I just thought it might be fun to call it the
1:50.4	feisty 15 15 minute discussion hot topic an opportunity as Sophie put it in our original
1:57.9	script to get things off our chest and I've put in brackets basically
2:02.5	have a row. So yes, we are going to be discussing beige this week.
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