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Creating a home full of character

Sun, 12 May 2013 16:56:07 GMT

SERENDIPITY is how Pauline Brotherton explains finding Cleish Mill eight years ago.

Preview: Gardening Scotland at Edinburgh’s Royal Highland Centre

Sun, 12 May 2013 16:40:50 GMT

IN THE greenhouses of Kevock Garden Plants near Lasswade, many unusual kinds of primula, elegant trilliums and dactylorhizas, those delicate orchids that flourish in the harsh surroundings of bogs and heathland, are all in bud.

Lynn O’Rourke: Bank Holiday confusion

Sun, 12 May 2013 16:35:04 GMT

BANK holidays always seem to throw our household off balance.

A move to a former steading in Ayrshire provides a totally new lifestyle

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 11:05:41 GMT

Dave Hall and Alida Biagi look at each other quizzically and wonder why they didn’t get stressed out during the two-year creation of their new home.

At home with John Kingsley and his wife Moya Cove

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 11:05:37 GMT

John Kingsley and his wife Moya Cove knew they’d found their ideal home when they stepped into this Edwardian tenement in Glasgow’s West End

A gloomy Victorian house converted into a family home

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 11:05:36 GMT

ARRIVING at Fiona McNeil and Stuart Agnew’s home in Edinburgh’s Murrayfield area, the first feature that strikes you when walking into the hallway is the scale and the light.

Lynn O’Rourke: ‘It’s all gone a bit Day of the Triffids’

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 11:05:24 GMT

AS THE sun shone last weekend, our garden was plunged back into life with toys lugged from the garage and the trampoline forced with squeaky protest back into action.

Interiors: ‘Go back and see whether you still like the images’

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 11:05:23 GMT

Magazines remain a favourite source of inspiration for the home decorator and using these to compile a mood board is a helpful – and enjoyable – exercise.

Style doctor: Your design questions answered

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 11:05:21 GMT

I am looking for a high-back, wing chair for my living room. My style is a mix of modern and vintage furniture, but I would like something that will work as a focal piece. Says, D Johnston

Architect had only himself to answer to on barn conversion

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 14:48:18 GMT

AN ARCHITECT working to his own brief is in the fortunate position of not having a communication gap to bridge. Douglas Forrest has been a practising architect for more than 35 years.

St Andrews townhouse was an unmissable project

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 14:43:20 GMT

LINDA and John Cunningham were already living on the outskirts of St Andrews in Fife when they spotted this house for sale at 19 North Street back in 2003.

Style Doctor: Dog beds | Coloured glassware

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 14:38:04 GMT

OUR interiors and home team solve your problems

Interiors: ‘Start by asking what kind of mood you want to create’

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 14:34:43 GMT

WHILE there are some people who appear instinctively to sense which elements make up their personal style, there are many for whom this seems daunting.

Plant sense: ‘Eye protection a weeding essential’

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 14:32:53 GMT

IT is alarming how quickly your garden can become ‘undone’ by pernicious weeds. So how do you go about reclaiming it? A weedy garden can be incredibly daunting.

Gardening runs from weeding and pruning to abseiling

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 14:31:15 GMT

FOR Julia Young, working in the garden can mean anything from weeding and planting, to abseiling and swimming

Business and family mix at chocolatebox home near Peebles

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 14:24:09 GMT

RUTH and David Hinks will always be grateful to his former childhood home near Peebles for giving them the perfect space to launch their business

Lynn O’Rourke: ‘The book makes it look easy. What can go wrong?’

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 14:16:12 GMT

WE HAVE a crisis in the garage. The ‘tidied-away’ toys, books, CDs and DVDs in there, along with various bits of garden equipment, a bike shop’s worth of tools, tyres, and plastic bits (that will prove irreplaceable should they be thrown out), a cot bed, and, of course, the two large packing cases that I salvaged, have all become too much. Too much for me to get to the washing machine in one piece. And too much for my other half to set up his training bike in there, which means the so-called sun room is currently a makeshift, inner tube-strung gym.