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Are you designing a kitchen and want to achieve the look and feel of bespoke plywood units, while working from a flatpack budget? Or are you stuck with an outdated Ikea kitchen that needs an update?

If you were buying a new home, what would you look for? Clean lines and unblemished surfaces in a highly insulated modern shell, or bags of character and original features in a love-worn building that ...

Gone are the days of tearing off wallpaper swatches and holding them up to walls, straining to imagine how the design on this scrap would look in part or all of the room. Now, there is an app for it.

It's Earth Day, which gives us all a chance to consider our impact on the environment. Composting is one of the best and easiest ways to make a sustainable change to your lifestyle. Compost returns ...

Moving in with your partner is a momentous, albeit utterly terrifying, step in a relationship. It’s a huge deal when you finally decide to cram all of your stuff into one space and agree to wake up to ...

What's on your list when you're searching for a new home? For many, space, light and a distinct lack of mould is well up there, but topping many people's priorities now is sustainability. More and ...

New research by online estate agent, House Network, has revealed that bad smells can trigger the strongest negative reaction in homebuyers. House Network has worked with organic home fragrance ...

Interior design guru Kelly Hoppen is revealing the secrets to creating stunning yet tasteful rooms in a digital masterclass home decorators can have at their finger tips. Famous for her use of neutral ...

The ‘Godfather’ of the Arts and Crafts movement, William Morris, is famed for his quintessentially British prints depicting hedgerow flowers, brambles, thrushes, strawberries, and daisies, but diaries ...

How many of you do a quick sweep of your home before going to bed? Check the lights are off, front door is locked, haven't left the oven on, dog's not sleeping on the sofa? Despite these sounding like ...

When it comes to looking for a new home on the rental market, a decent-sized room and friendly housemates usually comes top of the list of requirements. But what happens if you're vegetarian or vegan?