130 episodes

The Great indoors is a celebration of all things interiors and everything you need to know about making your house a home. In each episode, TV presenter and designer Sophie Robinson and best-selling author and journalist Kate Watson-Smyth will discuss, debate and guide you through the top trends and hottest topics from the home front. So pull up a chair…

The Great Indoors Sophie Robinson and Kate Watson-Smyth: Interior Design Experts

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    • 4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

The Great indoors is a celebration of all things interiors and everything you need to know about making your house a home. In each episode, TV presenter and designer Sophie Robinson and best-selling author and journalist Kate Watson-Smyth will discuss, debate and guide you through the top trends and hottest topics from the home front. So pull up a chair…

    Are you ready for your walls to give you a sweet embrace? Interview with Marianne Shillingford from Dulux

    Are you ready for your walls to give you a sweet embrace? Interview with Marianne Shillingford from Dulux

    Hot off the press of Dulux’s annual Colour of the year announcement, Sophie and Kate talk
    all things colour trends with Creative Director of Dulux, Marianne Shillingford. The colour all
    our walls will be wearing next year is Sweet embrace, a delicate pink, with a tinge of lilac
    nudging towards a cool grey. It’s a response to continued pressures stresses and starins we
    are all suffering under. It’s not quite the optimistic party colour Kate and Sophie were
    hoping for, but that’s coming Marianne assures us, but the masses aren’t quite ready for it
    yet. A jewel of an episode bursting with insights into the art of colour forecasting, the
    emotions of colour and why a soft pink is what we all need right now.

    To view Dulux’s Colour of the Year head over to https://www.dulux.co.uk/en/dulux-colour-
    of-the-year-2024

    Thanks to our sponsors Naturalmat for supporting the podcast. To learn more
    about Naturalmat’s organic beds and mattresses or pick up some fabric samples, 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 TGI10, valid until 1st November 2023.
     
    For daily updates follow Kate and Sophie on Instagram
    https://www.instagram.com/mad_about_the_house/
    https://www.instagram.com/sophierobinsoninteriors/
    Join our private facebook group and let us know what you think of the show here
    https://www.facebook.com/groups/thegreatindoorspodcast
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    • 41 min
    AI friend or foe of interior design?

    AI friend or foe of interior design?

    Here is a topic we didn’t think we’d be discussing a few months ago but the speed in which
    this technology is developing means we are already seeing it across our Instagram feeds.
    Opinion is that AI generated room designs are here, and not going anywhere. So how can
    you use this technology to help plan and visualise your home? Will these aspirational
    dreamlike interiors add to the already heavy feeling of FOMO? And will it make a whole
    industry of talented human designers obsolete? Or is it an amazing creative tool that can
    help expand all our creative horizons?

    Members of The Great Indoors Insiders can enjoy a brilliant BONUS episode, as Kate and
    Sophie interview interior design student and AI native Vanessa Edwards, who explains how
    as an early adopter she’s using Mid Journey to developed her creative interior designs. You
    can sign up and enjoy these insights, and support the show here
    www.thegreatindoorspodcast.com

    We’d love to hear your views on this topic, so join in the chat on our private Facebook
    Group
    https://www.facebook.com/groups/thegreatindoorspodcast

    Thanks to our sponsors Naturalmat for supporting the podcast. To learn more
    about Naturalmat’s organic beds and mattresses or pick up some fabric samples, 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 TGI10, valid until 1st November 2023.
     
    For daily updates follow Kate and Sophie on Instagram
    https://www.instagram.com/mad_about_the_house/
    https://www.instagram.com/sophierobinsoninteriors/
    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    • 37 min
    Style Surgery: How far should the architecture of your home dictate your interior choices and pattern versus plain curtains

    Style Surgery: How far should the architecture of your home dictate your interior choices and pattern versus plain curtains

    This is the monthly episode where we pass the mic on to you our lovely listeners. We hear
    From dilemmas that range from pattern or plain curtains, how to be inspired by a period
    style and make it modern, and is the rule that you need to paint your light filled room in a
    pale light colour hogwash? This episode gives our hosts plenty to row about, especially
    around the acceptability of Moomin mugs and Pea mylk. Intrigued…well enjoy the show!
    The Great Indoors Insiders receive a extended BONUS edit of this episode, so to hear more
    from Kate and Sophie on the perils of bedroom storage and appeasing tricky teenagers then
    sign up to become a friend of the show visit www.thegreatindoorspodcast.com.

    We’d love to hear your design dilemma’s so please send us an emila or a voice note to
    help@thegreatindoorspodcast.com

    Thanks to our sponsors Naturalmat for supporting the podcast. To learn more
    about Naturalmat’s organic beds and mattresses or pick up some fabric samples, 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 TGI10, valid until 1st November 2023.

    To view Sophie’s new fabric and wallpaper collection head over to
    https://harlequin.sandersondesigngroup.com/search/sophie-robinson/?q=sophie-robinson

    To become a Great Indoors podcast Insider you can sign up and subscribe
    at www.thegreatindoorspodcast.com. 
     
    Enjoy supporting the podcast, ad-free listening, bonus material and first dibs on any live
    event tickets. Become an annual subscriber and get 50% off!

    For daily updates follow Kate and Sophie on Instagram
    https://www.instagram.com/mad_about_the_house/
    https://www.instagram.com/sophierobinsoninteriors/
    Join our private facebook group and let us know what you think of the show
    https://www.facebook.com/groups/thegreatindoorspodcast
    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    • 38 min
    Battle of the Browns - Our Hosts Swap Sides

    Battle of the Browns - Our Hosts Swap Sides

    Kate and Sophie are back from their summer sojourn and have so much to catch up on.
    Sophie hijacks Kates love of chocolate brown for the walls of her new TV snug. Meanwhile Kate's
    channelling her inner unicorn as Sophies love of a rainbow infiltrates her Italian Reno. Have
    our favourite sparring hosts entirely swapped colour personalities? Who is influencing who?
    It’s all kicking off in The Great Indoors.

    Thanks to our sponsors Naturalmat for supporting the podcast. To learn more
    about Naturalmat’s organic beds and mattresses or pick up some fabric samples, 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 TGI10, valid until 1st November 2023.

    To view Sophie’s new fabric and wallpaper collection head over to
    https://harlequin.sandersondesigngroup.com/search/sophie-robinson/?q=sophie-robinson

    To become a Great Indoors podcast Insider you can sign up and subscribe
    at www.thegreatindoorspodcast.com. 
     
    Enjoy supporting the podcast, ad-free listening, bonus material and first dibs on any live
    event tickets. Become an annual subscriber and get 50% off!

    For daily updates follow Kate and Sophie on Instagram
    https://www.instagram.com/mad_about_the_house/
    https://www.instagram.com/sophierobinsoninteriors/
    Join our private facebook group and let us know what you think of the show
    https://www.facebook.com/groups/thegreatindoorspodcast
    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    • 39 min
    122: Bathroom Special: Why your bathroom mustn’t be white, grey, or beige

    122: Bathroom Special: Why your bathroom mustn’t be white, grey, or beige

    This episode is a deep dive into all things bathroom design with plenty of ideas and
    opinions on how you can take your bathroom from the ordinary default white to something
    bursting with pattern and personality. We dismantle your floor plan, eek out every inch of
    small spaces and discuss how to light your bathroom to help you feel your best.

    To become a friend of the podcast, enjoy ad free listening, bonus material and first dibs on
    ticketed events, sign up at thegreatindoorspodcast.com
    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    • 48 min
    121: From slogan T’s to wobbly pots - interview with Henry Holland

    121: From slogan T’s to wobbly pots - interview with Henry Holland

    Lock down changed many of us but for British fashion designer Henry Holland his passion for
    pottery got a whole new opportunity to thrive. Turning away from his iconic graphic fashion
    brand in search of a more slow paced pursuit Henry has pivoted to pots. Kate and Sophie
    enjoy digging a little deeper to find what drives his phenomenal creative energy and
    discover that he isn’t going to stop at mugs and vases but a new homewares brand might
    just be on the horizon.

    Follow Kate and Sophie on Instagram
    https://www.instagram.com/mad_about_the_house/
    https://www.instagram.com/sophierobinsoninteriors/
    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    • 36 min

Customer Reviews

4.8 out of 5
1.2K Ratings

1.2K Ratings

SJP DXB ,

Just Fab!

I absolutely love this podcast. It’s such a fun podcast to listen to when I’m walking my dog, and I get some uninterrupted interior design tips and laughs from you lovely ladies.
I do fear I may have looked like a bit of a crazy lady when I laugh out loud at some of your conversations and comments
whilst walking my pup.
Keep them coming.
Steph in Dubai xx

MrsSnoreyPants ,

Makes me smile

This is a lovely podcast and I say that because Sophie and Kates enthusiasm is so wonderful AND it’s also chock full of great ideas and conversations. Definitely check it out, it’ll make you smile if nothing else.

Ohaihowru ,

The less great indoors (sadly)

Used to love this podcast but sadly since there has been a chance in focus recently to monetise it things have gone downhill. Episodes seem much shorter, especially when you’re losing up to 5 minutes to ads.

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