Kate Watson-Smyth is an award-winning journalist who has written extensively about interiors and design for publications including Financial Times, Telegraph, Guardian, Grazia and Red. She runs the UK’s number-one interiors blog, Mad About the House, and authored the bestselling series of books by the same name. Kate co-hosts the number-one interiors podcast, The Great Indoors, with Sophie Robinson and, alongside Rukmini Patel, launched the Design for Diversity Pledge in 2020. She also runs Design Storey, a curated interiors shopping platform and the Do Less Harm Directory.
Kate Watson-Smyth is an award-winning journalist who has written extensively on interiors and design for publications including the Financial Times, The Independent, and the Sunday Telegraph and she has a monthly interiors column in Red. Her home has been featured in the The Wall Street Journal, la Repubblica, Elle Decoration, Livingetc and Remodelista. Kate’s acclaimed website, madaboutthehouse.com, founded in 2012, is officially the UK’s No. 1 interiors blog. The Great Indoors – which she co-hosts with Sophie Robinson – is the nation’s most popular interiors podcast. Kate has written two other bestselling books, Mad About the House: How to Decorate Your Home with Style (2018) and Mad About the House: 101 Interior Design Answers (2020). @mad_about_the_house has 242k IG followers.
