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1 week ago | 
houseandgarden.co.uk | Arabella Bowes
Most recently, the house had undergone what Martha describes as '80s-ification'. 'It was almost what people think of as contemporary Italian,' she explains, 'all white porcelain and swoopy plumbing fixtures.'Unlike the U.K., historic homes aren’t afforded special protections in California. In fact, Martha had to deal with the opposite challenge.
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1 week ago | 
houseandgarden.co.uk | Arabella Bowes
Here at House & Garden we have had the great fortune of snooping around many of these brilliant houses, so what lessons have we learnt? Well, whilst all these spaces are distinct from one another, there is a thread that runs through them all: a common philosophy that each of them abide by.
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1 week ago | 
houseandgarden.co.uk | Arabella Bowes
With every new season comes the desire to refresh our houses and gardens, and no season has this effect more than spring. The recent good weather has us wanting to transform our outdoor areas, whether they be small balconies or sizeable country gardens, so we've been on the look out for inspiration on just how to improve these spaces. That inspiration has come in the form of stripes.
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1 week ago | 
houseandgarden.co.uk | Arabella Bowes
The best garden parasols to buy, at a glance:Don't have time to read our full guide to the best parasols? No problem. We've rounded up the very best below.
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2 weeks ago | 
houseandgarden.co.uk | Arabella Bowes
The stretch of coastline by Chichester Harbour is some of Britain's best. Here, sand dunes heap haphazardly, surrendering to the wind's whims, and fiercely blue waters roll under a big sky. There's little wonder then, that the area's sea-facing plots are coveted and rare–and when one came on the market, Isabella Worsley's client jumped at the chance to buy it. The client was someone Isabella had worked with previously, on a small but perfectly formed mews house in Brighton.
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1 month ago | 
houseandgarden.co.uk | Arabella Bowes
Marks and Spencer might be best known for their Percy Pigs, ‘Dine In’ meals and Colin the Caterpillar cakes, but it's their womenswear and homeware that's piqued our interest in recent seasons. With buyers moving over from top positions at The White Company and Topshop, there's little surprise that their offering has garnered such a cult following. Top of our wishlist is their bedding, and the range spans from frilly, embroidered sets to crisp, clean-lined linens.
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1 month ago | 
houseandgarden.co.uk | Arabella Bowes
In an archive story from 2011, designer Emma Burns' straightforward approach, in a Kensington mansion block, has resulted in a chic and supremely liveable flat. At the front of the flat, overlooking the square, is the main living space - originally a dining room and separate drawing room that had been clumsily converted into one, with a low and narrow opening between the two halves.
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1 month ago | 
houseandgarden.co.uk | Arabella Bowes
Emma Premium PillowRead morePerfect Everyday Duck Down PillowsRead morePair of Supreme Goose Down pillowsRead more3 / 3Best pillows 2025: we tested and reviewed some of the best on the marketMark Anthony FoxWe spend approximately one third of our lives tucked up in bed asleep, so, when it comes to buying bedding, scrimping and saving on quality is only doing a disservice to ourselves. After all, consistently getting a good night's sleep has been linked to wellbeing, health and a longer life span.
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1 month ago | 
houseandgarden.co.uk | Arabella Bowes
Dean HearneInfluenced by her American-German upbringing, Meta Coleman's Utah house is a perfect meeting of two design worlds. There is a broadly Scandinavian sensibility here, with fabrics from Cathy Nordstrom, Josef Frank and Beata Heuman, as well as Gustavian and Tyrolean antiques, but there's also something distinctly American here as well. It's ripe with ideas to pick and bunch together in our own houses too. There are colour combinations to copy and fabric pairings to take inspiration from.
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1 month ago | 
houseandgarden.co.uk | Arabella Bowes
Eva NemethSpring is suddenly here, and everywhere we look, flowers are bursting into life. A walk down even the most urban of city streets is now enlivened by magnolia trees in their glory, fruit trees in blossom, and a technicolour carpet of daffodils, tulips and hyacinths. While these harbingers of the new season are certainly at their loveliest in their fresh incarnations, spring seems like the perfect time to incorporate them everywhere in your interiors, from lighting to table linens.
