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Rare house built by the high priest of the Art Nouveau movement - Charles Rennie Mackintosh - goes on the market near Glasgow
As architects go, Charles Rennie Mackintosh was certainly not prolific, so news that Windyhill - one of only two private homes built by the master of Art Nouveau from scratch - is on the market has caused a bit of a stir...
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Small home, big life: the not-so-sinister cabin in the woods that allowed one family to opt-out of the rat race in style
It could be any other ultra-modern apartment in any city in the world... but look a little closer and you may notice that all is not as it seems in this bijou home
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It's what you'd call a rock solid investment: Spanish holiday home created inside a giant man-made boulder (with the help of a cow, naturally!)
Paulina the cow was drafted in by Spanish architects to help with a very unusual building project...
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A Russian summerhouse, a nightclub and a 'shegoda': must be time for the Shed of the Year contest...
If you thought the main purpose of a shed at the bottom of the garden was to avoid your other half, well, you'd be right. But it's also a great way to showcase your more, um, eclectic decorating predilections...
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Well they do say and Englishman's home is his castle: historic Anglo Saxon manor in Staffordshire is on the market for £3 million (now where did I put that wimple!)
Dating from the 13th century, Caverswall Castle was rebuilt in the 1600s as a Jacobean mansion with 18 bedrooms and was once the home of the Wedgwood family
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Technology in the bathroom - 10 of the best ideas
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Sound of the underground: abandoned since 1934, Brompton Road tube station is to be transformed into luxury flats after £53 million sale
Disused London Underground station Brompton Road has been sold by the Ministry of Defence as part of a cost-cutting initiative
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Easy bathroom transformations - 10 of the best
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Money can't buy you love, but it can buy you a slice of Restoration history! Home where Charles II sheltered from the plague goes on sale
It's hosted Kings of England and world-famous composers and now, for the first time in its 600-year history, Malmesbury House in Wiltshire could be yours for the not-to-be-sniffed at price tag of £5 million
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How to decorate with pink - 10 of the best ideas
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The 40-year-old flat sharer: they're broke, probably newly single and on the rise... Oh and if you've got a spare room, they'll take it!
Thought your days of looking for a roomie were behind you? Soaring property prices and the breakdown of relationships mean that an increasing number of 40 and 50-year-olds are looking for a flat share
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Live like royalty in the former home of three queens of England, including two of Henry VIII's wives
Catherine of Aragon and Anne of Cleves managed to keep their heads and live in the lap of luxury in Walton Manor, but you might lose yours when you see this gorgeous Surrey home, which has just gone back on the market for £1.9 million
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No Skyscrapers here, but the former X Factor house gets our vote as it goes back on the market
Those plucky X Factor contestants may be long gone (what were their names again?), but life goes on in real estate - especially for this desirable home in the leafy burbs of north London
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Made in Chelsea: Egerton Crescent named Britain's most expensive street for second year running
Postcodes don't come much more exclusive than London's Egerton Crescent, despite the average price of a property there actually falling since last year
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Trailer happiness: flat-pack shepherd huts offer a cheaper - and surprisingly stylish - alternative to country living
If you've never considered living in a shepherd hut then it may be time to follow the flock as one Somerset company has seen a 200% surge in orders for its self-build towable homes
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It's a marathon not a sprint! World's largest Snickers bar packs a hefty punch with 2,000 calories - equivalent to a woman's daily intake
Wondering what to get the chocolate lover in your life this Christmas? Help could be at hand in the guise of a foot long Snickers bar that's eight times the size of its regular counterpart
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January sales 2016 - best on the high street
We show you where you can snap up some post-Christmas bargains
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No time for lunch this festive season? Introducing the three-course 'Christmas Tinner' for gamers who just can't stop playing
Retailer GAME has come up with a, erm, mouth-watering alternative to Christmas lunch as it reveals that half of gamers admit they can't bear to leave their consoles for even the time it takes to gobble down some turkey!
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On the mauve: it's been dubbed 'the most purple house in Britain' and it could be yours for just £400k
The 'big purple one' has been quietly causing an internet sensation since it appeared on property sales website RightMove, although a buyer for the, erm, colourful property remains elusive
