Ben and Gaby Hillman bought their house nine years ago with plans to gut the rooms and extend. One of the projects was to tackle the family bathroom, but the job went on the back burner when building ...

Bathroom designs face many conundrums, the biggest being how they're often small spaces that have to do a lot. Squeezing in all of the necessary bathroom features isn't easy and l ...

The first stages of learning how to grow artichokes are arguably the most important – start too early, and the frosts could attack the young growth before it has a chance to gro ...

Plenty of panelling and natural texture, along with earthy colours has helped make the most of this period property ...

Fairytale cottage garden ideas should draw on your sense of wonder and encapsulate the magic of those fictional spaces, pulling together practical design elements with a little childhood whimsy. Draw ...

While these are fantastic - and necessary - areas to consider, after designing and building two kitchens in two renovations myself, delving a little deeper makes all the difference. By really getting ...

There's no denying that cleaning the fridge is a pain, but it's about to get a whole lot easier. Georgina Shepherd, cleaning ...

If an open-plan kitchen acts as your main, if not sole, living space too then you need it to be as inviting as possible. Naturally, in a kitchen, practical surfaces and design choices tend to come ...

M&S is one of the best places to shop for the best candles and best reed diffusers. Affordable and beautifully scented, the supermarket’s fragrance section has made quite a name for itself, producing ...

When spring and summer roll around, we can typically expect our energy bills (depending on what tariff you have) to go down, ...

‘Hot borders are set for a bit of a comeback,’ says Claire Mitchell, RHS qualified horticulturalist, known as the Garden Editor. ‘With last summer's heatwave in our memories, we are seeing increasing ...

Spring is here, and for many of us, this means it’s time to start sowing seeds to fill our gardens with fruit, veg and flowers later in the season. So, it feels like a good time to tell you that a ...