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Home styling tips
Discover stylish interior design ideas and decorating ideas for the home with our latest home design inspiration. Be your own interior designer and learn how to put together a scheme for your kitchen, bedroom, bathroom, living room and more. Explore design inspiration from a variety of rooms, including colour, decor and styling inspiration.
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How to decorate your home according to your star sign
And would you furnish your home based on your horoscope?
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6 simple ways to brighten up your home after the Christmas decorations come down
Keep a little decorative magic alive after the baubles and tinsel have come down...
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Must-see wedding table decorations you can make in minutes
Looking for wedding table inspiration? Here are four beautiful, easy-to-make wedding table decoration ideas using fragrant foliage.
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The best white paint – how to choose the right shade for your walls
Here's all you need to know to help choose the perfect shade every time, including recommendations from our in-house experts
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How to zone out an open-plan space – dedicated different areas to separate tasks
Give each area a sense of purpose
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How to create a gastropub style kitchen diner
Give your dining spot a cosy, laid-back look with touches of industrial cool
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5 ways to welcome autumn into your home
As much as we love warm weather, the change of the season brings some gorgeous shades into our homes. We’ve rounded up a handful of our favourite ways to work the autumnal look in your home
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10 travel-inspired interiors every globetrotter will love
Create 5* luxury at home with these travel-inspired interiors
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7 decorating ideas that only worked in the 90s
From floor-to-ceiling mirrors to dense florals, take a look at these decorating ideas to see how many applied to your home during the 1990s...
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10 questions with… Wayfair
In our new series, we talk to our favourite retailers and experts about their trend predictions and styles. Here, we meet Wayfair’s Resident Style Advisor, Nadia McCowan Hill
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9 signs you’re obsessed with interior design
From a clear scatter-cushion strategy to your scented candle collection, the life of an interior design obsessive may seem strange to others…
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10 questions with... Habitat
In our interview series, we talk to our favourite bloggers and experts about their trend predictions and styles. Here, we meet Polly Dickens, Creative Director of Habitat
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10 questions with... JUNIQE
In our interview series, we talk to our favourite bloggers and experts about their trend predictions and styles. Here, we meet Lea Lange, co-founder of JUNIQE
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Home fragrances – our favourite summer scents
No longer cloyingly sweet, home fragrances are now as subtle and nuanced as our personal fragrances...
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Light your home the right way with…Sophie Amini of Pooky
In our interview series, we talk to our favourite bloggers and experts about their trend predictions and styles. Here, we meet Sophie Amini, designer at Pooky
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How to make your rooms work as family spaces
Now that school's out, you might be rethinking your family spaces. Our decorating tips will help you to create a relaxed and practical home that's easy to live with, and which both parents and kids will love
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Decorating tips – dos and don'ts from our favourite interiors experts
Who better to ask for decorating tips than some of the biggest names in interiors? From the colours to use to the furniture to buy, these little gems of advice from the experts will save you from any design disasters.
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One Ikea sofa styled three ways – do you love a country, coastal or global look?
We took a classic Ikea sofa – the Farlov sofa in white – and Hemnes sideboard and created three distinctly different schemes. Which one do you prefer?
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We talk trends with...Paula Taylor of Graham & Brown
In our new series, we talk to our favourite experts about their trend predictions and styles. Here we meet stylist Paula Taylor of Graham & Brown
