Heather Young
Heather Young has been Ideal Home’s Editor since late 2020, and Editor-In-Chief since 2023. She is an interiors journalist and editor who’s been working for some of the UK’s leading interiors magazines for over 20 years, both in-house and as a freelancer.
Heather’s interest in magazine journalism started at school, after a work experience placement at Empire film magazine. In her final year at York University where she was studying English Literature and History of Art, Heather attended a careers talk given by the then deputy editor of Country Living magazine and that was her lightbulb moment. She could combine working in magazines with her passion for interiors – something she’d loved even as a child (redecorating her bedroom was the present she requested for her 12th birthday!).
Heather first joined the Ideal Home team in 2006, where she oversaw the magazine’s real homes and makeovers features.
After going freelance following the birth of her twins, Heather continued to write for Ideal Home, as well as other leading homes titles. Heather was also an early adopter when it came to blogging and social media, launching her own award-winning interiors blog in 2011.
With experience art-directing a large number of shoots, both still photography and video content, Heather has also appeared in front of the camera, creating and presenting craft and DIY videos both for her own channels and for clients.
Heather rejoined the Ideal Home family four years ago and became Editor of Ideal Home and Style at Home at the end of 2020.
Heather and her family moved into their Victorian home in Surrey – a former hospital porter’s lodge – just before lockdown 2 at the end of 2021. It’s got great bones, but Heather’s keen to put her stamp on it. A keen DIYer, Heather has had to accept that progress is slower than she’d like, as she juggles the redecoration and renovation with work and busy family life. Heather recently completed a kitchen renovation, knocking through to the garage and removing a chimney breast to put in a huge wall of floor-to-ceiling sliding doors.
Ideal Home Truths
We've just completed a kitchen extension project, so the renovation budget is running a little low right now! We didn't plan to tackle the garden this year, but after installing huge sliding doors in the kitchen to enjoy the view outside, we've decided we've got to give the mud pit left behind after the building work a good facelift this summer.
Latest articles by Heather Young
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Take a tour around a salvage-lover's home
Find decorating inspiration with our real homes house tours. Real decorating ideas to inspire you to redecorate. Get decorating ideas from it's stylish layout and quirky furniture pieces with our modern house tour.
By Heather Young
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Step inside this light Victorian home
Take a tour around this light-filled Victorian home for plenty of ideas and inspiration. This house tour was previously featured in Homes & Gardens and combines plenty of modern ideas and contemporary style inspiration
By Heather Young
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Take a tour around a cool blue walnut and marble kitchen
Beautiful Kitchens tours a blue painted mixed materials kitchen. See more kitchen design ideas, tips and decorating inspiration at housetohome.co.uk/beautifulkitchens
By Heather Young
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Step inside this light-filled family home
Find modern decorating inspiration from our room-by-room house tour of a stylish lightfilled family home in London. Find decorating inspiration from its open-plan layout and colourful features
By Heather Young
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Take a look around this relaxed south London home
Take a tour of this calm and relaxed south London family home where much loved furnitures is juxtaposed with bright and colourful artwork. For more inspirational house tours, and decorating ideas head to housetohome.co.uk
By Heather Young
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Take a tour of this vintage-inspired Victorian terrace in Lancashire
The owner fell in love with the large rooms and high ceilings of her Victorian property, but not its dated Seventies scheme
By Heather Young
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Take a peek inside this modern monochrome home in Hertfordshire
The owners of this Victorian house indulged their love of Danish design to give their home a simple but snug look
By Heather Young
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Take a look inside this London Victorian semi with a modern edge
The owners reinvented what was a standard Victorian semi, creating spaces with unique style that work hard to make family life run smoothly
By Heather Young
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Step inside a Colonial-style Dutch house
Take a room-by-room tour around beautiful Homes & Gardens readers' homes. This week we look inside this gorgeous Colonial-style Dutch house for stunning decorating inspiration. Be inspired by this artistic country-style home.
By Heather Young
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Take a tour around a bright and colourful period home in Hertfordshire
This photo gallery from 25 Beautiful Homes is packed with inspiration for creating your own traditional look. For more house tours and decorating ideas, go to housetohome.co.uk
By Heather Young
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Take a tour around this light and bright Scandi-style new build in Glasgow
The owners of this new build turned it from a uniform modern house into a spacious home
By Heather Young
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Step inside this French-inspired Victorian terraced house
Take a room-by-room tour around beautiful Homes & Gardens readers' homes. Be inspired by this beautiful Victorian property that has been lovingly restored to its former glory.
By Heather Young
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Step inside a cosmopolitan Victorian terrace
Find modern decorating inspiration from our room-by-room house tour of a stylish Victorian terrace. Find decorating ideas from its mix of clever buys and original style ideas.
By Heather Young
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Be inspired by this fabulous family townhouse in London
Be inspired by this fabulous family Georgian townhouse in north London. See inside some of the world's most beautiful homes with Livingetc magazine and find more inspiration
By Heather Young
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Step inside a converted Tudor farmhouse
Find modern decorating inspiration from our room-by-room house tour of a converted tudor farmhouse. Find decorating ideas from its country cottage exterior and its über-modern space within
By Heather Young
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Be inspired by this flamboyant Edwardian townhouse in south London
Be inspired by this flamboyant Edwardian townhouse in south London. See inside some of the world's most beautiful homes with Livingetc magazine and find more inspiration at housetohome.co.uk
By Heather Young
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Take a tour around a gorgeous Caribbean hideaway
Find modern decorating inspiration from our room-by-room house tour of a stylish caribbean retreat. Find decorating ideas from striking clean lines and high ceilings with our modern house tour.
By Heather Young
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Wander around an eclectic Victorian terrace in London
Have a wander around an eclectic Victorian terrace in London, chosen by 25 Beautiful Homes. For more house tours and decorating ideas, go to housetohome.co.uk
By Heather Young
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Hive HomeShield smart home security system case study: a top pick for busy families
Promotional feature with Hive HomeShield
By Heather Young
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Take a tour around a Victorian warehouse conversion
Like to peek around other peoples homes? Take a look at this modern conversion of a victorain warehouse with Housetohome. For more real people's homes, visit Housetohome's house tour section
By Heather Young
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Take a tour around an Arts and Crafts semi
Find modern decorating inspiration from our room-by-room house tour of a stylish Arts and Crafts semi-detached house. Find decorating ideas from its feng shui layout and choice of clever buys
By Heather Young
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Be inspired by this cosy country property in Surrey
Be inspired by this cosy country cottage in Surrey, chosen by 25 Beautiful Homes. For more house tours and decorating ideas
By Heather Young
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Step inside an architect's modern family home
Take a room-by-room tour around beautiful Homes & Gardens readers' homes. This week we look inside this gorgeous architect's home for stunning decorating inspiration. Be inspired by this natural-inspired modernist home.
By Heather Young
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Step inside this contemporary new-build in Edinburgh
Have a wander around this contemporary new-build in Edinburgh, chosen by 25 Beautiful Homes. For more house tours and decorating ideas, go to housetohome.co.uk
By Heather Young