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The Great Indoors

52. Stop Working in the Bath, New Books, Go Dark?

The Great Indoors

Kate Taylor

Society & Culture, Arts, Design

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

šŸ—“ļø 22 October 2020

ā±ļø 43 minutes

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Summary

Are you emailing from the loo seat? Kate and Sophie say it's time to ditch the quick fix, embrace theĀ shoffice and make sure your home really works for the way we live (and work) now. A crop of new design books explore maximalism, creative block printing and sustainable design. And as Halloween approaches, a listener wonders whether to go to the dark side... Books discussed include: Everything: A Maximalist Style Guide by Abigail Ahern Home for the Soul: Sustainable and Thoughtful Decorating and Design by Sara Bird and Dan Duchars House of Print by Molly Mahon Useful links and images are supplied on each of Kate and Sophie’s blogsĀ madabouthehouse.comĀ andĀ sophierobinson.co.ukĀ or join our Facebook groupĀ The Great Indoors Podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:29.2

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0:34.2

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0:37.3

UK. Hello! Hello and welcome to the great indoors. The podcast which reveals

0:48.9

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

0:55.6

I'm Sophie Robinson and I'm Kate Watson Smyth.

0:58.8

Now, over the last six months we've done all the quick fixes, the superficial improvements, the moving of a pot

1:05.1

plant here or changing a light bulb there. But actually the pandemic has meant some lasting

1:11.0

changes to the way we live and work and for many of us that

1:14.2

means some proper rethinking. So we've had a look at some of the research that's

1:18.7

been done over the last few months and there's some really quite interesting changes in how we live and how we using our homes.

1:26.3

So we're going to have a look at that with particular reference to the home office.

1:30.8

As well as that, we'll be addressing a listener's dilemma about going to the

1:34.3

dark side in our style surgery section and we've got some gorgeous new design books to

1:40.2

draw all over two. So it's beginning to become really clear, isn't it, about how the way we live

1:51.3

and the way we work has really changed since the pandemic since lockdown

1:56.9

and I kind of really came home to me because I've always worked from home and so little has

2:02.2

changed me on that front.

2:03.4

But it was when I went up to London to meet you guys to record

2:07.1

the podcast at Sky McAlpine's house,

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