Jessica Doyle

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Design and Interiors Editor at The Telegraph

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Articles

I transformed a £5 charity shop find into a stylish side table

1 week ago | telegraph.co.uk | Melanie Lissack |Boudicca Fox-Leonard |Simon Lewis |Jessica Doyle

If you're hankering after a DIY project to tackle over one of the upcoming bank holiday weekends, a piece of furniture is a fun and rewarding way to spend a few hours. We've all got something inexpensive and unloved lying around the house. And with a splash of paint, a few rolls of wallpaper and a bit of trimming, you can turn it into something that looks far more expensive. Stylist and interior design blogger Melanie Lissack is a DIY enthusiast and upcycling expert.
'Heat pumps aren't good for poorly built, leaky houses'

1 week ago | telegraph.co.uk | Boudicca Fox-Leonard |Simon Lewis |Jessica Doyle |Eleanor Steafel

Skills shortageLack of quality has become endemic. Not least because there is a severe shortage in skilled trades people in the UK. Over 250,000 extra construction workers are required by 2028 to meet demand. "We're so short of skilled trades that if you get someone to do it, the chances are they might do it worse than you. It's a tricky one," says McCloud. YouTube has allowed lay people to pick up new skills, but it's no substitute for real training.
How do you grow chillies and peppers from seed?

1 week ago | telegraph.co.uk | Connor Ibbetson |Jessica Doyle |Ria Higgins |Tom Brown

Around early summer, your plants should start to produce flowers, which can be further encouraged with a high-potash fertiliser once a week to replace the nitrogen feed. A fertiliser that's high in potash would be a tomato feed or a comfrey fertiliser. Depending on the variety, the ultimate height of your plant should be achieved before too many flowers are produced.
Bring spring into your home with these 15 cheerful high street buys

3 weeks ago | telegraph.co.uk | Olivia Lidbury |Boudicca Fox-Leonard |Nicky Rampley-Clarke |Jessica Doyle

We have finally made it to spring. The brighter mornings, longer days, and the sound of birdsong signal that it's high time to pack away the hot water bottles and heated blankets. In their place, consider a few mod-boosting additions to transition your home into spring, in the way that you might with your clothes.
'Our Welsh chapel cost £200k but we'll spend six times that doing it up'

1 month ago | telegraph.co.uk | Boudicca Fox-Leonard |Nicky Rampley-Clarke |Jessica Doyle |Samantha Priestley

The Great Pottery Throwdown judge and his partner on their painstaking restoration of a derelict Grade-II listed chapel in north Wales"Don't be horrified!" A command that Keith Brymer-Jones and Marj Hogarth have issued a lot during their three-year mission to rescue an enormous dilapidated chapel and Sunday school in North Wales.
How I turned my spare room into a luxurious bathroom

1 month ago | telegraph.co.uk | Nicky Rampley-Clarke |Jessica Doyle |Samantha Priestley |Olivia Lidbury

The former Made In Chelsea star reveals how she created a spacious en suite in her London homeYou can take the girl out of Made in Chelsea, but you can't take the girl out of Chelsea, apparently. More than a decade after she quit the cult reality television show, Millie Mackintosh - now an influencer and author - can still be found in her old west London stomping ground, although life has moved on from the never-ending parties that proved the perfect backdrop for so much drama.
The 10 germ hotspots you're forgetting to clean around the house

1 month ago | telegraph.co.uk | Lucy Gornall |Jessica Doyle |Samantha Priestley |Olivia Lidbury

From the spice rack to the remote control, here are the danger zones to have on your radar (and how to tackle them)When it comes to cleaning, you likely give your toilet a regular scrub and wipe down the kitchen surfaces each day, but are you paying attention to other germ-ridden areas in your home?
The hero homeware buys from John Lewis's new designer collaboration

1 month ago | telegraph.co.uk | Jessica Doyle |Samantha Priestley |Olivia Lidbury |Debora Robertson

British heritage meets modern living in the retailer's new furniture line created with fabric house SandersonThe launch today of a homeware collaboration between John Lewis and the fabric house Sanderson poses one question: why hasn't it been done before? Both brands have a solidly British aesthetic and a strong sense of heritage: Sanderson was established in 1860, and the first John Lewis shop opened a few years later in 1864.
Nine ways to create the perfect book nook (in any part of the house)

1 month ago | telegraph.co.uk | Fleur Britten |John Sturgis |Ros Byam Shaw |Jessica Doyle

If you're looking to escape the harsh glare of reality, what you need is a book nook - a cosy, secluded spot at home where you can tuck yourself away and lose yourself to an unputdownable read. "It doesn't need to get complicated," says luxury designer Tom Howley.
My wife is obsessed with decluttering

1 month ago | telegraph.co.uk | John Sturgis |Ros Byam Shaw |Jessica Doyle |Emma Reed

Sian has long fancied herself as my sartorial curator, and I am familiar with her close scrutiny of my outfit when we go out as a couple. But now she's bringing this scrutiny to bear on everything I own. And apparently intends to throw out a good deal of it. My wife has worked in fashion for most of her adult life; as a professional buyer, she has an enduring compulsion to purchase clothes and shoes that are often (in my view, at least) identical to those she already owns.