Design
Beautifully Biodiverse Gardens
Freshening up your green space for spring is all about the birds and the bees – and the butterflies, worms and wasps. Here’s how to create a low-maintenance, wildlife-friendly garden that’s full of fragrance and colour
A Growing Trend For Glasshouses
Grand Victorian-style pavilions are popping up again in country-house gardens – but this time around, they’re as much luxe entertaining and leisure spaces as homes for heat-loving plants
How Smart Is Your Home?
Do you want hi-tech solutions that streamline domestic life – or does the idea of one-touch security fill you with dread?
Not Just For Royalty: Could You Live In A Scottish Castle?
Is it the desire for a little piece of history or the lure of reality TV that’s driving well-heeled buyers to the Highlands?
Step into the void to create a home in London’s Barbican
A cathedral-like undeveloped space in the coveted Barbican Estate is the ultimate blank canvas – a unique chance to put your own stamp on one of the city’s architectural landmarks
Designing Mountain Homes With Soul
With 50 Alpine projects to her name, including her very own ‘James Bond pad’, interior designer Nicky Dobree creates the chicest chalets
The Ultimate Alpine Chalet
Proximity to the slopes and chocolate-box looks are no longer enough to make a ski property special. Today’s buyers want a surround-sound cinema room, a spa, indoor pool – and even a basement nightclub
The New Home Libraries
A hand-picked collection of books is at the top of every affluent homeowner’s wish list – along with a serene, stylish sanctuary in which to read them
At Home – In a Five-Star Hotel
Combining the luxury and facilities of a five-star hotel, the comforts of home and the cachet of living in an architectural landmark, branded residences are surging in popularity
Lighting up Florence: the Manifattura Tabacchi development
The Renaissance city is famous for its Duomo and sumptuous historic core, but the hottest properties are in a former tobacco factory that’s now a cutting-edge cultural hub
What Makes The Ultimate Party Pad?
From hot tubs with pergolas to a subterranean pool-slash-dancefloor, here’s how to turn your home into the perfect space for entertaining
Songs Of Praise: Why Everyone Loves A Rectory
Grand but family-friendly, rural but not isolated, the rectory is the ideal country house for our times
Heritage Landmark Living
Historic buildings all over Europe are enjoying a new lease of life as luxury residential hubs
House style: Francis Sultana
Francis Sultana is one of the world’s leading interior designers, as well as CEO of David Gill Gallery in London. Originally from Malta, he lives between an apartment in London’s Albany, a palazzo in Valletta and a Jacobean hunting lodge in Hampshire
Wild at heart
Our gardens are more important than ever as places for sanctuary and socialising – as the trends at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2022 proved. They’ll soon be trickling down to a green space near you
Building a new country house
In conversation with Lindsay Cuthill, architects George Saumarez Smith and Richard Parr discuss the changing role of the modern British country house.
Building Barcelona
From Modernist masterpieces to beautifully designed private residences, world-class architecture is at the core of daily life in the Catalan capital
5 city art hubs
A vibrant creative scene can drive change in a neighbourhood. We spotlight five new art hubs that offer homebuyers a real buzz
Jasper Conran: A life in houses
Designer Jasper Conran has bought and restored a string of English country houses. He talks about his love affair with these historical beauties
