Bonfire Night

Bonfire Night falls on a Thursday this year. A quieter evening, closer to home.

Bonfire Night without the fireworks. Everything for a Thursday evening in your own garden: a fire, something hot in a mug, a blanket each, and enough light to see faces by. Read: Remember, remember, it's a school night →

Dark, theatrical and impossibly inviting. Dimore Studio makes rooms that feel as though something interesting happened in them just before you arrived.I looked across seven projects to see how it makes a room glow.

Dark, warm and impossibly inviting: that's what I keep coming back to in Dimore Studio's rooms. These are my picks to get there: velvet in sepia, rose and wine, brass and honey-coloured glass to catch the light, lamps that glow rather than glare, and the smaller things that finish a room. Start...

Six moves I keep seeing in Kelly Wearstler's rooms: a curve against straight lines, rough beside polished, one older piece, one thing a little too big, pairs, and pattern that comes from the materials. Here are my picks for each. Go for it, or go light.

A curve against a grid. Stone beside metal. A 2019 bench in a 1930s Georgian bedroom.Kelly Wearstler puts together things that have no obvious business being together, and makes it look inevitable. I looked across six projects to see how.

I normally suggest your rug should be large enough for at least the front legs of your sofa and chairs to sit on it. For many UK living rooms, 200 × 290cm works considerably better than the commonly bought 160 × 230cm size. 

The Halloween pick and mix. Every piece from my five haunted looks, in one place. Read the story →

Halloween

How to create a beautifully haunted house. Five senses, five darkly delicious looks, and decorations that deserve to live beyond October.

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Inside the haunted house. Gothic Halloween decor for the hallway and the drawing room.

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Make an entrance. Halloween front door decor that works in daylight as well as after dark.

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Something to drink, if you dare. Head for the bar and pick your poison.

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For the curious, and the slightly wicked.

Garden sculpture

What happens when art leaves the gallery and takes its chances with the weather.

The arcs, globes and sculptures worth giving floor space to, from design icons to clever buys at a fraction of the price.

How the floor lamp learnt to become a statement

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Most rooms don’t need more lights. They need the right ones in the right places. This Edit brings together floor lamps, table lamps, wall lights and pendants that layer properly: soft light to live in, focused light to read by, and a few pieces worth looking at even when they’re off.

Colour is one of the quickest ways to change a room, and one of the easiest to lose your nerve over. The Cloud House doesn’t. This Edit brings together colourful furniture, lighting, wallpaper and accessories that use bold colour with confidence: strong shapes, saturated tones and enough plain...

Stone. Concrete. Timber. Metal. Bond’s best interiors weren’t about filling rooms with expensive things. They were about strong materials, sculptural shapes and knowing when to stop. These are the pieces that get you there.

A listening room doesn’t need to be a shrine to hi-fi. It needs a good chair, a rug, somewhere to put your drink, low lighting and, admittedly, a very good record player. These are the pieces for creating a dedicated home listening space that sounds good, feels better and rewards staying for the...