The best garden chairs, loungers and day beds for summer 2022
What are the best garden chairs to buy? It’s important to know. Well-chosen pieces let you extend your interior design to the garden so that when the…
Make your home feel bigger without the cost of an extension
“It’s amazing how the use of the space can make it feel so different from what we originally saw when we first viewed it,” says Souyioultzi. “It felt…
Make your home feel bigger without extending
“It’s amazing how the use of the space can make it feel so different from what we originally saw when we first viewed it,” says Souyioultzi. “It felt…
The UK’s poshest sheds
Up in Manchester, meanwhile, Tim Denton, a furniture designer, made his own to please himself. The exterior of his studio is clad in unusually shaped shingles inspired…
How posh sheds came to define British homes in 2022
“It’s really an extension of your space,” she says. It’s also a light-touch way to extend your home. It is usually easier to proceed with a garden…
How to bring space and light to the trickiest room in the house
Planning The most important thing to think about when reconfiguring a hallway is “the journey”, says Anna Burles, co-founder of design studio Run for the Hills. “Where…
The best DIY spring decor updates for every room of the house
A quicker fix is to give your kitchen floor an update with a runner. Ruggable’s runners are inexpensive, starting from £79, and come in the form of…
How to decorate your home in time for the long Easter weekend
Alex Fox, a stylist from John Lewis’s home department, points out that decorating for Easter can be more fun than decorating at Christmas, as there is less…
How to decorate your home in time for Easter
Alex Fox, a stylist from John Lewis’s home department, points out that decorating for Easter can be more fun than decorating at Christmas, as there is less…
Yes! You can still buy your dream home in Europe – here’s how
When Britain left the EU at the end of January 2020, some estate agents based in France, Spain and Portugal held their breath. They had traditionally earned…
How to save energy in the home: 10 essential questions answered
No one was laughing when Ofgem announced it was increasing its price cap on April Fools Day. And sadly they weren’t joking either. GoCompare Energy warned that…
I turned my bargain bungalow into a stylish dream home
The humble bungalow is having something of a moment. The draw of a relatively affordable detached property, often surrounded by greenery, has come to the fore over…
How to cut your heating bill by 15% (and make your home look gorgeous)
To keep within budget, Worsley recommends opting for an inexpensive plain fabric and adding a more special fabric down the leading edge as a border. “This gives…
Inside the designer dollhouses that look better than your home
A decade later, her shop Weaverthorpe Dolls House Miniatures, not far from York, is stacked to the rafters. Millard now has a collection of over 200,000 handmade…
How to upsize – on a budget
All our money went on buying this property – it cost 50 per cent more than we got when we sold our London house. We were able…
Every home needs a cosy corner where we can hide away from the world
It’s a scientifically proven fact: humans thrive in small, cosy spaces. This is not to say we aren’t drawn to awe-inspiring, open-plan rooms, explains Lily Bernheimer, an…
Bye-bye, grey: how we fell back in love with opulent period interiors
“The one thing that’s really important with panelling is getting the proportions of the panels correct,” says Batchelor. “If the beading is too thick, or is installed…
Why a games room is the new middle-class must-have
Where space is tight, and for multipurpose rooms that will double as snugs or workspaces, Ransom recommends companies such as the Games Room Company (gamesroomcompany.com), which offers…
The best scented candles for your home, tried and tested
Nothing says “cosy” like a scented candle. I’ve burnt around 50 scented candles for hundreds of hours in researching this piece over the past year, so I’m…
The best sofas for comfort and style, tried and tested
In the average sofa’s 11-year lifetime, it will be used for an estimated 6,500 hours of TV-watching and approximately 2,700 hours of reading, according to a semi-scientific…
The interior design trends for 2022 to follow for a perfect home in the UK
The spring homeware collections are starting to appear on the shelves and online, and there’s plenty to give your home a new-season refresh, whether you’re looking to…
‘What do you mean you don’t have a bootility room?’ The middle class kitchen must-haves for 2022
Despite the huge changes in the way we live, brought about by events in the past two years, the kitchen remains the hardest-working room in the house;…
From fake books to fruit candles – How Instagram fuelled the rise of imitation homeware
Giles believes our interior’s obsession has become ‘like set design’ helped along by social sites such as Instagram. Certainly, recent stats from Mastercard show how 23% of…
The rise of the secret property market… and how to break in
Not long ago I had dinner at a friend’s house in a smart part of London, soon after they had moved in. I know the area fairly…
‘I was a doctor – but I quit to become an interior designer’
Part of the problem, Stevenson believes, is that junior doctors are not made aware of the potential mental toll that the job can take. “At university, she explains,…