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Buy of the week: Camden Town
This two-bedroom flat has a pretty park on its doorstep, while buzzing Camden Town is only 10 minutes’ walk away. Big sash windows and high ceilings give a spacious feel and there’s a private garden with a studio/home office (£525,000).
Swap of the week: Willersey, Glouc
This little Cotswolds beauty is just across the road from the village green and duck pond. For £530,000 you get beams, exposed stone walls and an open fireplace, plus four bedrooms, a useful attic room and lush gardens to enjoy.
Life-changer: Trescowe, Cornwall
For a project brimming with potential, what about this coastal home, yours for £545,000? The family space includes six bedrooms, while its collection of outbuildings overlooking an acre of gardens could become income-generating holiday lets.
Spotlight on Camden Town
The shops and markets clustered around the high street and canal make Camden one of the most colourful of London's neighbourhoods. The area's period homes and loft-style apartments attract a mix of homebuyers.
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Fantastic fibre-optic and iridescent acrylic lighting forms one of the many dazzling displays as we preview this year’s design show in EC1.
My design London - Russell Norman
Owner of Polpo, Spuntino and Polpetto restaurants in Soho, and da Polpo and Mishkin's in Covent Garden, restauranteur Russell Norman opens up on his favourite London haunts.Milan 2012: digital design
The latest digital technology stole the show in Milan as the design world thronged to one of the world's most important furniture trade fairs, the Salone Internazionale del Mobile.Get the look: art deco interiors
With a Hollywood remake of The Great Gatsby on its way, the Roaring Twenties are back in vogue. Give your home some art deco glitz and start mixing the cocktails.Olympic Torch scoops design award
The London 2012 Olympic Torch, by Shoreditch-based duo Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby, has been named the Design Museum’s Design of the Year.My design London: Russell Pinch
Russell Pinch is an award-winning London furniture designer and the founder, with his wife, of Pinch Design. He reveals his favourite places in London.
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