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What to see at London Craft Week 2023, from Poplar to Park Royal

Here’s our essential guide to the capital’s craft fiesta

<p>Ula Maria’s garden design for Hollie Bowden’s Tottenham project</p>
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Hollie Bowden: create a garden that feels connected to your home

Great style and green fingers don’t always mix. Here’s how to get your home and garden speaking the same language

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Paris hotel chain bringing ‘affordable luxury’ with an Insta aesthetic

Eiffel Tower views and vintage referencing interiors at the latest outpost of Paris hipster hotel brand

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Inside a subterranean Camden house built across three back gardens

Like an architectural iceberg, this light-washed house by the architects at vPPR spans the ends of three north London gardens

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Design hacks: The Big Interiors Battle’s Dara Huang on luxury for less

Contestants on this new Channel 4 interior design competition are competing for a £250k Sheffield flat in a warehouse conversion

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‘I dream of hiring pros but it’s time to dust off the DIY tools again’

Labour shortages added to soaring material prices and the cost-of-living crisis means it’s not just painters whose rates have shot up

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‘Imperfect and rebellious’: what makes London’s best home interiors?

Londoners’ homes are full of surprises. A new book steps inside rooftop apartments, brutalist estates and subterranean new-builds to unearth a wealth of creativity

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Bold Finsbury Park flat transformation is a retro Nineties throwback

Designer Alex Holloway’s Finsbury Park flat shows even first-time renovators don’t need to play it safe

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Interior Design Masters episode 2: riotous classroom task ups the ante

The design competition continued last night with a whimsical challenge that rewarded the biggest imaginations (and possibly the parents)

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The ultimate comeback? Pine interiors are having a moment — again

Can perenially maligned pine ride the Nineties wave back to favour?

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Kunle Barker’s top tips for reducing water usage and energy costs

TV presenter and property expert Kunle Barker’s room-by-room guide to cutting your energy usage at home

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Designer Hollie Bowden’s five golden rules of kitchen renovations

Don’t whip yourself into a frenzy over worktop materials. The key to planning a kitchen is understanding how you actually use the space

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One of London’s largest chapel conversions for sale for £2.85m

Just like a prayer - £2.85 million could take you there.

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Chateau Royal, Berlin: new hotel covers all bases from cool to comfort

Original artworks, a delicious restaurant and sceney bar are welcome distractions but beautifully appointed rooms are the star of the show at this new Mitte hotel

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Hollie Bowden’s 10 instant-gratification interiors resolutions

Start the year right with these quick fixes to give your home a new year lease of life

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How to build a pantry if you’re short of space – and on a budget

Professional declutterer, Sort Your Life Out Star and pantry-enthusiast Dilly Carter offers her tips on how Londoners can build a pantry from scratch.

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‘We turned a 1997 double decker bus into a modern home for £28k’

Lamorna and Gareth Hollingsworth bought their 25-year-old bus for £5,000 in 2020 and spent two years turning it into a home.

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One Hackney couple’s extraordinary revamp of a formulaic terrace house

This Hackney couple ripped up the rulebook in their bold transformation of a gloomy terraced house.

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Cut energy bills: simple kitchen upgrades to reduce your energy costs

Power-hungry kitchens are the place to start if you want to cut your bills

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H&M Home launches new homeware collection with colour experts Pantone

The collection is available in two colour palettes, intended to soothe or energise.

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A tired Hackney house transformed into a hard-working but playful home

Family homes often struggle to marry form and function. Here’s how one Hackney house was designed to work for everyone

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The Randolph Hotel reimagined as a vision of literary Oxford

The historic hotel is not afraid to reference its illustrious past, without resting on its laurels

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10 of the most inspiring renovations and extensions of the year

Courtesy of a crop of bold homeowners, these creative projects prove that it pays to think outside the box – quite literally

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Are pastels past it? Notting Hill embraces trend for black exteriors

Residents of this well-heeled west London neighbourhood are ditching picture-postcard pastels

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‘Matching sets are control freaky. Here’s how to do Christmas at home’

With lavishly expensive tablescaping feeling a bit out of touch this year, a little creativity and resourcefulness can go a long way to deliver a show-stopping festive home on a budget

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Pick up last-minute presents at these winter markets and pop-ups

Hunt down some lesser-spotted gift makers with our guide to the Christmas markets you shouldn’t miss

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‘Inappropriate’ Dorset farmhouse named House of the Year 2022

An ‘inappropriate’ and eccentric twist on a traditional farmhouse in Dorset has won the top prize.

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Glass and timber home and skinny house contend for House of the Year

This week’s projects were judged on their materials and craftmanship.

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Londoners rent out homes as meeting spaces amid cost of living crisis

Demand for office, meeting and production space is growing — here’s how to make money renting out space in your home

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Da Vinci-inspired flat designed by London artist on sale for £1.35m

Artist Mark Humphrey designed the flat as a work of art for living in.

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Home inspired by Peckham car park added to House of the Year shortlist

Two more projects have been added to the House of the Year 2022 shortlist.

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The cool Ukrainian homewares brand to put on your Christmas wishlist

Gunia Project is on a mission to celebrate and save their fabulous cultural heritage.

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Rustic tin barn and London eco mews shortlisted for House of the Year

This week’s projects were judged for their ‘architectural shapeshifting’ merits

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Handmade ‘tweakments’ add a personal touch to a London basement flat

Artist Bell Hutley tapped into the ‘imagination of her mind’ to liven up her two-bedroom Labroke Grove flat.

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Designer Hollie Bowden on how to work out your interiors identity

Redecorating but no idea where to start? Unsure of what you like? Don’t panic — be methodical and you can establish your interiors identity with some canny research

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A Belle Epoque classic hotel still beloved of the fashion set

A classic hotel in the south of France whose style has endured for over a century

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Pastel beach hut and experimental Dorset home up for House of the Year

Kevin McCloud walked viewers through the first five homes in the running for House of the Year on this week’s Grand Designs.

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Surge in uptake of solar panels in race to beat soaring energy bills

The majority of pre-war homes in England hold an EPC of D or lower.