Are you bored of the Cotswolds clamour? Do you find talk of the Chipping Norton set tedious and despair at property price hikes across Gloucestershire’s pretty but off-radar villages? The Cotswolds ...

The glamorous, showy flowers of hibiscus are a joy in summer and autumn. Hazel Sillver looks which of these colourful, exotic plants to grow and how ...

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Vast in its sprawl and fascinating in its history, Istanbul has found a hotel worthy of its stature in the new Peninsula ...

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Fiona McKenzie Johnston explores how – and where – to harness these semi-precious materials via trompe l’oeil, and so get the ...

The December issue has landed, and with it our edit of glorious, inspiring houses from Norfolk to Connecticut. Subscribe or ...

Before answering that, it's worth looking at lighting generally as it's part of designing a house that is notoriously hard to get right without a designer – hence why we see so many spotlights, strip ...

The bi-annual design rendez-vous is returning to Paris in January 2025, this year with a focus on all things ‘surreality’ – here's why you should head to Paris for the design mecca ...

Just a stone's throw from central London, this highly decorative detached house sits in a private enclave of twelve Grade II ...

The Believe singer now lives in an Italian Renaissance-style house in Malibu, but has owned some unlikely properties over the ...

For looking back, we could credit whimsy for aspects of several of this country’s great houses, gardens and rooms, and thus ...