When we think of the homes where Ikea pieces usually fit best, country houses or period properties don’t immediately come to mind. Yet over the years, Ikea’s range has expanded dramatically, resulting ...

Some colours are always a mistake! Ellie Tennant asked leading interior designers for their advice, so you won’t have to paint ...

Designer Peter Ellis readily admits that he and his partner, Hamish Davies, did not have especially high hopes when they decided to view the 400-year-old Wiltshire malthouse that is now their home.

In our April issue, explore four homes filled with colour and character. Plus, Japanese prints, Easter buys and a Vancouver ...

Think of a classic dolls’ house and you’ll probably picture a perfectly symmetrical building with soft red-brick walls, tall sash windows, detailing around the front door and a hipped roof with ...

Legend has it that tea was discovered by accident when in BC2737 the Chinese emperor Shen Nung saw leaves drop into the water that his servant was boiling for him to drink. At first pans were used to ...

In January a friend sent me an excited text having just discovered Nottingham’s ethereal Grade II*-listed Church Cemetery. Grade II*-listed Church Cemetery in Nottingham opened in 1856. - Heather ...

Ancient Greek city states are thought to have had distinctly different approaches when it came to visitors announcing their arrival. While Spartans would advertise their presence at the door with a ...

We all know that horrible sinking feeling when your favourite bowl or mug hits the floor. The crack of ceramic on tile is one we all dread. But what if there were a way of repairing broken ceramic and ...

The bedroom is regarded by many as an intensely personal space in which to rest and relax and generally escape the pressures of the outside world. But this concept of the bedroom as a private ...

Once porcelain became available, it quickly replaced the use of wax and sugar, allowing the production of figures that could be used again and again. At fashionable 18th-century dinner parties, the ...

A quaich is a small, shallow circular dish or bowl, with between two and four protruding handles, or lugs. The word literally comes from the translation of ‘cup’ in Gaelic, cuach. Some historians ...