Inside Cath Kidston’s Art-Filled Notting Hill Terrace | Design Notes

Cath Kidston welcomes us into her late-Georgian terrace in the heart of Notting Hill, London. “This part of London is my beat,” says the designer and entrepreneur of this area of Notting Hill, with its stucco villas, ice-cream-coloured terraces and market on Portobello Road selling antiques, clothes and bric-a-brac.

The house is nestled away and backs onto a large private garden square with views of a forest of old London plane trees filled with flocks of parakeets. “I have a theory that it takes seven years for a house to feel really lived in, and I feel very settled in here,” insists Kidston. Watch the full episode of ‘Design Notes’ as we tour Cath Kidston’s Notting Hill terrace.

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when I started cathkidston I planned for it to be an interior shop and I had a terrible accident all my fabric from Eastern Europe arrived made up into duvet covers and pillowcases I obviously couldn’t sell it all so I chopped it up and made it into product the best things come out of happy accidents my decorating style was definitely very influenced by my childhood also by my family homes like my granny had a beautiful house that had rooms that John Fowler had done got more interested in design I did a brief spell at Art School I landed this most incredible job working for Nikki hlam he’s a very kind generous person and you learn so much if if you’re interested from an early age and I think one of the biggest influences on my design work are all those memories that I banked love houses that reflect the owners and have integrity to them I’ve collected a lot of pictures over the years since I was 18 I’ve been mad about buying and looking for pictures and I bought things from junk shops and then you know really just junky things followed by some Investments this picture which I really love this print by elth Kelly and I love the graphicness of it and I love red it’s one of my favorite pictures I put this lovely fireplace in from jam and I luckily found these lovely old Del tiles I found this armchair on Etsy and I asked the guy to just cover it in Calico with nails and then I put these two pieces of old French ticking from Catherine Paul just thrown over the chair really nice being on the ground floor looking out on the garden nice light room down the other end here in the kitchen I’ve made things a bit more contemporary Douglas forur floor very simple modern floor which kind of keeps the whole room light and we had lovely joinery company called suffer and Essex joinery who made us these units and I think it’s beautiful how they’ve even lined up the wood so everything matches they’re incredible joiners my taste in pictures seems to change and at the moment I’m very into looking at all these old Engravings and the workmanship so [Music] incredible tend to organize the rooms into colors this room was really that sort of Pinky liac theme my friend Colin Orchard he designed these beds I had to choose in a hurry a color got my raw paint chart out and went for bright red when it arrived I was a bit overwhelmed and now I’m really happy with it I really like it kid also had a collection that we found over the years of these Romero Fernandez size pictures and the the set that I’ve got here are the story of the Garden of Eden it was like a huge purchase it’s that a thing when you’re doing up a house and you have a budget and it’s cooker or pictures and you go pictures and then worry about the cooker [Music] later for me it’s really important if a bathroom can have a window so I always choose a room where there’s natural light nice for me to have um space for furniture in the bathroom to have a chair a rug not have everything built in little table by the bath plants in the bathroom is like a big tick for me have my geraniums here and pictures on the wall so it’s are treating it really like an ordinary room it’s so nice in the bathroom not to have overhead light these little lights which Rosie duoo made me the custom frames with my fabric but they’re great to have to be able to have a by the bath it’s literally the solution for bathroom lighting I [Music] think so we’re up on the top floor of the house in the guest bedroom and I like that feeling of being high up and a bit Sunny up here and so having started the yellow wallpaper theme a pattern from my joy print Studio little seaweed pattern I then found this lovely old quilt lovely new lamp shades on my old lamps one of my favorite places to find things is still going to Lily Road in Fulham there’s one place called Andrew Buick so this yellow Tres of drawers would have come from there the other thing in this room of of the geraniums when I launched my Seath products we had a whole load of beautiful paper geraniums made it really makes a room having the plants in here aren’t they beautiful [Music] welcome to the basement of our house where we have our sitting room um this room there’s an extension to it which I’m standing in now with a skylight which we built on and then we knocked through into what was the old kitchen of the house and made a double room we found this beautiful picture by oen Vern it came from an exhibition that he had at Connelly they have some fantastic shows there nice to have a drink tray it’s really welcome for people if you have the space isn’t it and then this end this table is really my desk chipboard table my friend Joseph made and we play cards here I love having a cards evening so I think a house that isn’t full of books doesn’t feel like home okay these are my pile of geranium books I’ve been collecting love that [Music] cover so this is the Cozy end of the sitting room um where we watch TV and it’s I think of it more as a nighttime room cuz I’m usually here in the evening but I wanted it to be full of color and lovely bright pictures and so on I began I’ve got a very colorful rug I started with that I got at the local auction and from those colors I kind of built the room I really like layering up prints so here I’ve got the blankets these cushions are old friends from Molly man and then coming over here on the sofa I went for this blyfield very very gentle Peggy Angus fabric which I love the Telly is a work in progress this is the thing I always debate with my husband where we’re going to put the Telly of course over the far place and so I’m going to make something really beautiful to cover that [Music] with the key driver for me is it’s always tempting to follow trends when you’re looking at doing a new house and I just want it to have Timeless bones and then if I feel like changing the cushions or the pictures or things as time goes by the house can evolve I have a theory it takes 7 years for a house to feel really lived in and um I feel very settled in here [Music]