Arabella Bowes

3 weeks ago | houseandgarden.co.uk | Arabella Bowes

A layered and pleasingly individual bedroom in an Anna Haines project. Boz GagovskiTrends. Let's talk about them. They are ubiquitous, insidious, sometimes fun, other times embarrassing. Some are to be embraced, others are to be run from. One thing is for certain, though, you will not go through life without falling for one or two. In the fashion world, where cycles and seasons seem to pass at a faster rate, trends feel a little less perilous.

3 weeks ago | houseandgarden.co.uk | Arabella Bowes

Anna Haines has brought warmth and colour to this Georgian flat in Marylebone using Atelier Ellis’s ‘Double Smoked Green Blue’ and Robert Kime's 'Tynemouth’. Paul WhitbreadWhen it comes to building a room scheme, it can be tricky to know where to start. Some wisdom suggests finding a rug you love and building from the ground up, other advice says to start with the art, pulling out strands of colour from the piece to find your basic palette–but what if you don't have a rug you love?

4 weeks ago | houseandgarden.co.uk | Arabella Bowes

Simon UptonIn a 2022 episode of our video series, Design Notes, Top 100 designer Sophie Ashby says of her office, 'the desk chair is a bit of a joke because my mother loves leopard print and it's a very Marmite pattern. My clients, generally speaking, don't ever let me use leopard print–and my husband hates it too.' Love it or hate it, the print is a divisive one that elicits passionate responses from both camps and, as Sophie summarises, often those two opinions have to coexist under one roof.

4 weeks ago | houseandgarden.co.uk | Arabella Bowes

Take inspiration from this stylish side return in Laura Heybrooks Oxford garden. Eva NemethWhether you have a sliver of a balcony or a sprawling country garden, the end of spring raises the question of how to make the most of the space you have. After all, summer means spending more time outdoors, inviting more friends and family over, and enjoying your lot.

1 month ago | houseandgarden.co.uk | Arabella Bowes

Stepping into the 18th-century workers’ cottage that belongs to Anna Rhodes and Fred Scott is much like stepping back in time. With its working fireplace, period-appropriate palette and narrow staircase, you would be forgiven for assuming the house has been brilliantly preserved, handed down from one conscientious custodian to another. Yet, when this creative couple first moved in, the cottage was almost unrecognisable from its current state.