Virginia Clark

3 weeks ago | houseandgarden.co.uk | Virginia Clark

Internal window ideas: Polly Ashman installed interior windows into the hallway of her London house, in order to ensure plenty of natural light in the TV room. It's a brilliant solution for what to do with the middle room of a terraced house, while still allowing light to flow through from front to back. Photos: Owen Gale, Styling: Rachel MoreveWalls and doors may be a conventional way to divide up your house or apartment, but there are times when the most obvious solution isn't the best one.

3 weeks ago | houseandgarden.co.uk | Virginia Clark

Victorian bedroom ideas: Lucy William's lovely bedroom is one of our favourites. Christopher HorwoodThere are only so many ways to tackle the design conundrums that a typical Victorian terrace will present, and many of us in the UK will have mulled them over at some point or another.

3 weeks ago | houseandgarden.co.uk | Virginia Clark

A pleasingly organised larder in interior designer Nina Litchfield's London houseEven if you have a reasonably generous kitchen, it's likely that space is at a premium in cupboards and on countertops. Packets of food, bottles of water, boxes of freezer bags and all the rest of our paraphernalia have a way of proliferating, leaving us with chaotic cabinets, cans of beans we didn't know were there, and piles of pot lids that bear no apparent relation to the actual pots.

1 month ago | houseandgarden.co.uk | Virginia Clark

Olive green paint (in this case Little Greene's 'Light Bronze Green') makes the perfect backdrop for art in decorator Joshua Hale's Oxfordshire cottage. Dean Hearne‘I find olive green to be a particularly captivating colour because it feels so alive,” says Joshua Hale, whose cottage in Oxfordshire features the olive green sitting room of our dreams. ‘Its subtle bronze undertones allow light to play across the surface beautifully, unlike some other greens that can appear flat.

1 month ago | houseandgarden.co.uk | Virginia Clark

A beautiful and unique way to give a piece of furniture its own identity is to take paint and brush (and maybe even stencil) and let your imagination run wild. Look no further than Charleston Farmhouse, which once belonged to Vanessa Bell and her husband Clive Bell. It’s now a museum, and a lesson in decorative painting. Practically every inch of it is painted, from the walls to the fireplaces, beds, tables and chairs. The effect is overwhelmingly uplifting.