Decorating Advice

However tight your budget, we recommend indulging in a few key pieces to bring a sense of luxury to your everyday life

The darkest colour can have a startling effect on light

We’ve asked five leaders in architecture and design to offer their tips, tricks, and tales on the importance of salvage and reclamation in interior design

If you don't want your house to feel like a hodgepodge of different spaces, it's worth giving some thought to a colour scheme that can run through each room. We asked paint experts and interior designers for their advice on how to do it right

The Sicilian art director, designer and maker shows us what has been inspiring him lately…

Amidst the growing realities and impact of climate change, learning how to reduce one's carbon footprint is as important as ever. Following Studio Hooton's launch of Planet Hooton, the interior design practise shares what they’ve learnt – and how you can do the same

77 handy cleaning, storage and organisation tricks to try around the house (the things you wish you’d known about before now)

Recovering or reupholstering antique sofas and chairs is a brilliant way to bring character and patina to your interiors, but there are things you need to look out for if you go down this path, as Elizabeth Metcalfe investigates

Fitted kitchens may be our default approach, but opting for freestanding furniture can produce a much more characterful room, and you can take it with you when you move

The artist and ceramicist tells us what has caught her eye…

Sometimes, meeting in the middle can yield the best results. Fiona McKenzie Johnston tells us why…

Three experts give their advice on how to style your home to help it sell more quickly

Having a flooring crisis? Heed the advice of the experts…

One of the joys of going somewhere new is finding unique and characterful pieces to bring back home, but it pays to know what to look for, where and how

Using limewash paint is a wonderful way of adding texture and character to your walls, but it can be a finicky process. An expert and a DIY-er give their advice on how to do it right

They say that going slow and steady wins the race, but when it comes to renovating, can we say the same? Fiona McKenzie Johnston explores the positives of taking a house renovation slowly – and embracing its “never quite finished” state

Been-there, done-that renovators share their experience of delays, panic-buying, poor planning and overspending (and how to avoid all of those things)

‘Art for Art’s sake' was the battle cry that transformed Victorian art and design in the late 19th century. Many of the Aesthetic movements credos are still highly relevant to the way we decorate now – Skylar Pinchal Coysh explores why