Discover how colour experts choose a Colour of the Year and explore the key paint shades and interiors colour trends set to ...

‘Being Australian, I love the sea and a big horizon,’ says artist and former archaeologist Jane Dickins of her move from London to the seaside town of Deal. ‘London was really making me feel ...

There’s a letter in the Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology in Oxford composed by one of the previous occupants of this former vicarage in Chippenham, the brilliantly named Gilbertius Lake. In the ...

'We’d been looking for a house for about a year and had narrowed down the search to a part of east London known as Walthamstow Village,’ recalls freelance interiors stylist Marisa Daly. She and her ...

We all know that horrible sinking feeling when your favourite bowl or mug hits the floor. The crack of ceramic on tile is one we all dread. But what if there were a way of repairing broken ceramic and ...

Think of a classic dolls’ house and you’ll probably picture a perfectly symmetrical building with soft red-brick walls, tall sash windows, detailing around the front door and a hipped roof with ...

I fell in love with my home’s south-west facing garden. When I viewed it for the first time, I walked right through the house not looking at a thing until I had seen the garden. The first piece of ...

We love an intriguing paint name – it’s such a conversation-worthy topic. Is your living room painted in Crayfish Party or Sang de Boeuf? Is the woodwork Vichyssoise or Bombolone? Sometimes a ...

Regarded by most as an innovation of the 1970s, the Peacock chair actually owes its existence to the Spanish-American war of 1898. This short conflict ended with Spain ceding the Philippines to ...

Making a home a true reflection of oneself takes patience and vision, says designer and maker Kathy Crisp. And her home, a pretty Victorian redbrick villa in Sussex, which she shares with her partner ...

A quick dash down from Calais will bring you to Lille, a vibrant city with wonderful Flemish architecture, great restaurants and fantastic shopping. Once a year, on the first weekend of September, the ...