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This unique book is a real pleasure. Explaining the tradition of French rural gardens, the author takes you through the process of creating and maintaining a wonderfully natural garden using traditional methods. It is both beautiful and useful, with hundreds of colour photographs and practical illustrations, as well as details of growers providing old-fashioned plant varieties.
Whether you are buying an old house, worrying about damp stone walls, struggling to understand lime render, shopping for partition walling, hunting for builders, doing your own plumbing, trying to get planning permission...in short, if you are involved in any way with a renovation project in France, this book will be essential reading.
The essential all-new home improvement, restoration and self-build supplier guide from the publishers of Period Living, Homebuilding & Renovating and Real Homes magazines and the organisation of Homebuilding & Renovating and National Improvement shows.
Brand new selections of barn conversions in one of our most popular books. This new collection is lavishly illustrated with hundreds of high quality colour photographs and the full story of each conversion as well as design, building and supplier contact details. Please note that some material also appeared in the first edition of the book.
Property, whether you are buying house to live in or to let, represents an enormous financial commitment. This book, by bricks-and-mortar expert Michael Holmes, will show you how to maximise the value of your investment, and will reveal the kind of home improvements that make economic sense.
We have an enduring love affair with Georgian homes – so why do many of the attempts at “Georgian” style on our housing estates look so wrong? This book offers 17 of the finest examples of new homes built in a Georgian style and offers advice on how to get it right.
Naomi Jones talks to glass engraver Jo Whittaker about her love of English country design and how it influences her work, as well as how she became a professional engraver.
A heated towel rail will keep your bathroom warm and the towels dry. Here's a selection of the latest heated towel rails on the market, along with a full list of stockists and suppliers.
Invest in glamour with a crystal chandelier and a silver cabinet for the bathroom, or save with loose covers to give your sofa a new lease of life and vintage style. Maggie Stevenson examines the latest glamourous home accessories on the market.
Home cooking is hard to beat and traditional-style accessories can help give a flavour of the past too. Here are some of the latest kitchen accessories to help add that classic touch to your kitchen.
Naomi Jones meets ceramic artist Katie Almond, who was inspired at a young age by her creative grandmother and makes hand-decorated porcelain and ceramic pots, jugs and cups using fabric or paper transfers.
Sourcebook, August 2010: Capture the colour of summer sun and decorate your home in an elegant scheme of yellow. Find golden tones in heritage paints or in a vintage armchair says Maggie Stevenson.
Blue-sky buys: Whether it’s a gourmet picnic or a light alfresco lunch, help set the scene with this summer’s outside dining essentials, including parasols, picnic baskets, cutlery and barbecues.
Naomi Jones talks to Adam Aaronson, a glass artist who is passionate about promoting the work of fellow makers, about his works, what inspires him to create and how he became interested in glass blowing.
Sourcebook, July 2010: Be inspired by summer skies and choose true blues for your home and garden, says Maggie Stevenson. Carpets, fabrics and furniture have a nautical look and accessories made from rattan and stone add the finishing touch.
Bloom time: Create your own flower show with floral accessories for home and garden, complete with full list of suppliers.
These elegant cabinets are an attractive and practical solution to bathroom storage. Plus some handy tips to help you choose the right vanity unit for your bathroom, and a full list of suppliers.
Looking for the perfect gift for the green-fingered person in your life? Be tempted by our selection of outdoor accessories, each with an inherently natural feel, including trugs, pot holders, seeds and trowels.
Naomi Jones talks with Melissa White, a decorative painter based in Hastings who specialises in Elizabethan-inspired designs.
Wood not only adds natural beauty to your home but also keeps the character of older properties. It is also an incredibly practical way of flooring your home as it is easy to maintain, easy to clean, great to look at and much more hygienic than a carpeted surface. This advertisment feature from Timberland Flooring discusses the benefits of wooden flooring and the types available to you.
In Kaffe Fassett's "Simple Shapes Spectacular Quilts", world-renowned quilter Kaffe Fassett demonstrates how basic geometric forms - squares, rectangles, triangles, diamonds, circles and quarter circles - found in natural and manmade environments inspire his quilt designs. This is evident in the 23 magnificent, inventive quilts showcased in this book and step-by-step instructions are provided for each one.
Naomi Jones chats with Gary Drostle, a London-based mosaic artist who feels equally at home on a building site.
Lights designed for the workplace are a practical choice for your home as well, here are some of the latest designs on the market, along with some handy tips on what to consider when choosing lighting.
Tones of blue, green and neutral underpin tranquil schemes this spring. Find them in traditionally made tiles and wallpaper, hand-embroidered fabrics and country-style accessories, says Maggie Stevenson.
There’s a place for everything with these clever kitchen storage ideas. Plus advice on things to consider when choosing storage items.
Beautiful and practical, stone is a natural background for traditional interiors. here's a guide to what you should consider when choosing stone flooring, plus a range of the latest stone flooring available and a list of stockists.
Here, for the first time, is a completely authoritative guide on how to look after your old house - whether it's a timber framed medieval cottage, an eighteenth century urban terrace or an example of Victorian or Edwardian speculative development.
Naomi Jones talks to London based ceramicist Jo Davies about her architecturally inspired pieces, including bowls, vases and light fittings.
This is a brand new edition of the best-selling book on planning consent. Used by the public and professionals
alike this fourth edition is fully updated and completely
re-designed.
Rebecca Fishenden selects traditional Easter decorations sure to raise spirits during the holiday season.
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