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The Great Indoors

41. Jay Blades, Design Dreams, Living Room Refresh

The Great Indoors

Kate Taylor

Society & Culture, Arts, Design

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2020

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Are you dreaming big enough? Kate and Sophie delve into their psyches and reveal what feeds their design dreams, from pink castles to dirty husbands. Jay Blades of BBC's The Repair Shop talks about therapeutic upholstery, beautiful mistakes and his new show: Jay's Home Fix. Plus lots of lovely ideas for a simple living room refresh, and the Style Surgery asks the big question: shoes on or off? Useful links and images are supplied on each of Kate and Sophie’s blogs or join our Facebook group The Great Indoors Podcast.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the Great Indoors. The podcast which reveals everything you ever needed to know about interiors and

0:14.4

explains how to make it all really work for you in your home.

0:17.8

I'm Kate Watson Smyde and I'm Sophie Robinson and a big thank you to Gebret the bathroom

0:27.7

experts for sponsoring the show now I think people often get really scared about designing bathrooms because it's a big upheaval and

0:38.0

there's a lot of anxiety about getting it wrong.

0:40.0

And they don't want to do it twice either, but it's really important that you treat your bathroom like any other room in the house and not get sort of sidetracked into the fact that it has to have certain fixed appliances in it.

0:51.5

So I think it's really important

0:53.7

that you work your own style into your bathroom

0:58.0

decoration, whether that's bold or neutral,

1:01.0

classical contemporary, but by combining those features you create a room that's not just

1:06.6

practical but beautiful too. And also that reflects the style of the rest of your house. There's loads to choose from at Gebaret from organic shapes

1:15.0

and invisible overflows to storage in cabinets with built-in LED lighting.

1:19.7

Ooh snazzy! So do check out the inspiration page on their website, Geberret.co. UK to get your bathroom

1:31.0

redesign kick-started.

1:33.4

And thank you so much to Gebborette for your continued support.

1:36.8

Now we have a packed show for you as ever from our duvet dens.

1:40.6

What have we got Sophie?

1:41.6

Well first up, I would love to chat all things

1:44.8

fancy interiors and discover what our design dreams are. I've then got an amazing

1:51.2

interview with the most fabulous J Blades from the repair shop

1:56.7

fame he's going to talk all things mending and restoring and finally we're going to

2:02.1

talk room revamps plus of course our regular style surgery.

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