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‘I feel like I’m on holiday here!’ - check out the winner of the 2024 Ideal Home Reader Home award for Best Makeover

A south-facing extension and a sunshine-yellow kitchen is perfect for family life

Ideal Home

A new-build house with harbour views is this couple's happy place

It took three viewings before they realised the site's potential

Ideal Home

Wife who watched soulmate die says blasé attitude to symptoms cost him his life

Dave Smith, 58, was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer on February 2, 2024, after years of suffering from pain

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Drama Republic moves into a colourful, handcrafted workspace in London

For the new creative HQ of production company Drama Republic, Emil Eve Architects remodels a warehouse into office space in London’s Holborn

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'Be brave and go bright' was the design mantra for this colourful cottage

Step inside this Cotswold home and you're greeted with a kaleidoscope of colour

Ideal Home

Simon Cowell's home designed by Kelly Hoppen is a new take on the 'farmhouse' style, blending modern and rustic

And it's easy to recreate

Ideal Home

An interior designer used this can't-fail trick to decide on the colours for her home

This Oxfordshire house wasn't always this colourful…

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Cleaning expert warns people to avoid this popular skirting board cleaning hack – it could be posing a fire risk

Viral doesn't always mean effective

Ideal Home

See how this kitchen got a luxury makeover using some clever budget tricks

Bargain buys, DIY and clever tricks helped this couple create their kitchen on a budget

Ideal Home

This unloved cottage has been transformed into a stunning country home

Under Giselle De Hasse’s guidance, a dark, cramped, unloved cottage was transformed into a bright, welcoming home

Ideal Home

Colour and patterned textiles have brought this traditional Georgian farmhouse to life

Jewel-like vintage textiles mixed with contemporary pieces give this traditional Georgian farmhouse a cheerful aesthetic

Ideal Home

Tangerine dreams: bold colour brings a home to life

Bright and brilliant shades add a dramatic edge to a ceramicist’s London terrace

The Guardian - UK

'It's simply magical and epitomises Christmas in our home' - You'll be dreaming about this Victorian home all December

With its mix of nostalgic decorations, this renovated Victorian home in Bath offers the perfect warm welcome for festive get-togethers

Ideal Home

Bunker mentality: a Moroccan riad inspires a rethink of a London home

Jürgen Blondeel and Mike Cork dug the floor out from under their terraced house, flooding it with air and light

The Guardian - UK

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Spring Studios’ redesigned London home sees industrial and colourful codes collide

Creative agency Spring Studios reveals a light-filled, industrial-inspired space designed by Tomèf

The Guardian - UK

An Arts and Crafts schoolhouse renovation in Kent proves a class act

A dilapidated property, built in 1902, makes the grade as a family home

Evening Standard

How to update Victorian homes for modern living: solutions for dark hallways, galley kitchens and bland bathrooms

From Tottenham to Tooting, most of the capital’s housing stock is Victorian, a design challenge for modern Londoners. Here’s how to update dark, cramped layouts for 21st-century living

The Guardian - UK

‘It’s like a miniature Downton’: a cosily grand country seat in Suffolk

Ambrice Miller has remodelled a 17th-century former malt house into a comfy family home

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The Guardian - UK

Holy guacamole: are you ready for the return of the avocado bathroom suite?

Pink, blue, yellow… Coloured bathroom suites are pushing the all-white sets out of fashion

The Guardian - UK

Memphis by the sea: reinventing a Hastings home

Behind the traditional Georgian facade of a house on the south coast is a home dedicated to postmodern design

Ideal Home

A clever change of layout was key to creating this luxuriously large bathroom

The homeowners knocked two rooms together for a bigger family space with a glamorous touch

The Guardian - UK

Goodbye tasteful neutrals, hello riotous prints: a Georgian renovation that delights in colour

The decor of this period house in Rye, reflects the Georgians’ exuberant, hedonistic spirit

Nottingham Post

24 Hours in A&E producers say more than 1,000 Nottingham patients agreed to be filmed

Producers said it was 'incredible'

The Guardian - UK

‘You can get away with craziness in the hallway’: at home with colour expert Annie Sloan

Paint expert Annie Sloan knows how to have fun with colour – her home is a lesson in bold walls and unlikely combinations

The Guardian - UK

‘Every flat surface is an opportunity’: Lucinda Chambers’ unique sense of style

The brilliantly colourful and eclectic home of Lucinda Chambers, Vogue’s former fashion director, is ‘a constant work-in-progress’, finds Kate Finnigan

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