Creating a considered home with Katie Robinson, creator of The Here Home.

#01. INSIDE with Katie Robinson, exploring home as a place of nurture, creativity and an anchor to our surroundings as the seasons turn.

I am excited to reintroduce the INSIDER series of interviews, now with a focus on our homes as places that reflect the way we live inwardly; that express ourselves creatively and that also anchor us to our surroundings by paying attention to the seasons.

I am delighted to introduce you to Katie Robinson, friend and close collaborator — we co-founded THE | here THREAD in 2020 as a platform for exploring the natural elements within design and the home.

Our paths first crossed back in the autumn of 2016 on a transformative yoga teacher training with Leila Sadeghee and Bridget Luff. Our worlds collided again during the experience of early motherhood in the pandemic; a metamorphosis we both felt deeply and yet wanted a creative outlet to explore our mutual interests in interiors, design, yoga and the living world.

I am always inspired by the way Katie is led by intuition, her incredible eye for beauty and her background as a trained architect to create spaces that are intentional, uplifting and balanced, i.e. places that you want to spend a lot of time! There is always a sense of things being considered, deeply felt and experienced by her, weaving her story and personality into the fabric of everything she does.

I loved speaking to Katie about her lovely home — a place of both stillness and creativity and how it shapes the way she and her family live…

Katie in the loft she recently designed and renovated.

Describe who you are and what you do.

My name is Katie and I am an architect by training, although for the past four years I have been doing a range of different things, rather than working in-house at a practice as I had done previously. 

Where is home? 

In 2018 we made the move from London to Bristol to set up home with our newborn and so the past few years have been a mix of creating a home, mothering, some design tutoring and freelance work, as well as evolving creative inspiration through Instagram and training to become a Passivhaus designer.  

What led you to move from London to Bristol?

We lived in a small two-bedroom flat in Hackney which was amazing place for my husband and I to start life together; however, we knew we couldn’t afford to stay in London longer term, and to be honest I was beginning to find the scale of the city a bit overwhelming. We wanted to still be in a vibrant, creative city, but with better access to the countryside and coastline and Bristol was a place we already knew and loved.