Clerkenwell: the home of loft living
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The best new homes 2012
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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.
Move to St Albans and you get two cities for the price of one
Moving out of the capital doesn’t have to mean a longer commute or even a change of job.
My design London: Elizabeth Hurley
Elizabeth Hurley reveals her latest design project; discusses friend Damien Hirst's artwork, as well as her favourite restaurants and design shops in London.
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Buy of the week: high church
This former masonic chapel in Chiswick has been converted into a three-bedroom home (£1.175 million) with a 30-foot open-plan, double-height reception room. The kitchen is a black glossy affair, there’s a study, a cinema room and a decked roof terrace.
Swap of the week: Blackboys, East Sussex
Honeys Green farmhouse is a Grade II-listed pile that sits in a couple of acres and offers versatile living with an annexe and outdoor heated pool. Inside has character galore among four bedrooms and an attic room with pretty views.
Life-changer: South Petherton, Somerset
Willowbrook is a five-bedroom beauty (£1.15 million) with a 52-foot reception room and garages that could become a holiday apartment. Make a B&B business there and your guests could use the indoor pool and gym complex or roam your two-acre garden.
Spotlight on Tunbridge Wells
It may have temporarily lost its iron-rich spring but Tunbridge Wells has buckets of charm to make up for it.-
Buy of the week: high church
This former masonic chapel in Chiswick has been converted into a three-bedroom home (£1.175 million) with a 30-foot open-plan, double-height reception room. The kitchen is a black glossy affair, there’s a study, a cinema room and a decked roof terrace. -
Swap of the week: Blackboys, East Sussex
Honeys Green farmhouse is a Grade II-listed pile that sits in a couple of acres and offers versatile living with an annexe and outdoor heated pool. Inside has character galore among four bedrooms and an attic room with pretty views. -
Life-changer: South Petherton, Somerset
Willowbrook is a five-bedroom beauty (£1.15 million) with a 52-foot reception room and garages that could become a holiday apartment. Make a B&B business there and your guests could use the indoor pool and gym complex or roam your two-acre garden.
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My home: Mark Christophers
Mark Christophers, who co-founded the West Cornwall Pasty Company, also had ingenious ideas for a tired terrace house, which he transformed into a jaw-dropping, light-filled home.Published May 2012
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It’s what you do with space that matters
A tiny Lewisham flat was all Maurizio Pellizzoni could afford – but he had loft space and a wealth of good ideas.Published April 2012
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Renovation: revamping a Seventies semi
They had the perfect location and a great garden, now all one couple needed was space, light and a good-looking house.Published March 2012
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'Contemporary chic doesn't cramp my easy-going lifestyle': Jo Berryman
Edgy British design meets girly glamour in Jo Berryman's London home.Published March 2012
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Fashion house
Fashion addict Tara Nash-King uses her Notting Hill mews home as her designer shop to sell luxury classics.Published March 2012
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'One look at the hallway and I knew it had to be mine'
In 1726 Marmaduke Smith gave his new home in Spitalfields wow factor with a marble and mahogany hall. Three centuries on, one couple have rescued it.Published March 2012
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My home at Christmas: Nikki Tibbles
Celebrity florist Nikki Tibbles's 19th-century, five-storey townhouse becomes party central at this time of year.Published December 2011
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India Knight's pink palace
The tragedy for novelist India Knight is that Kinky Pink paint is out of production. H&P visits her Chalk Farm home.Published November 2011
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Live in a glass box and you'll never miss a thing
Where there's a will... A group of Londoners, determined to save the East End's heritage, came up with a brave plan that involved thinking inside the box.Published November 2011
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Our home: converting basement flats
Cast away images of damp, dreary basements and discover that life below street level can provide the height of chic, urban style.Published October 2011
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At home with Lord Shoreditch
Big-brand clients can't get enough of 'the mad designer in funny glasses'. H&P meets Steve Edge in his lively east London family home.Published October 2011
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Office conversions: Clerkenwell
New relaxed planning rules will make it easier to convert commercial property into a home.Published October 2011
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Chocolate queen: Chantal Coady
Chantal Coady dreamed of owning a chocolate factory but until she did her south London home was covered in trays of truffles.Published October 2011
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At home with Victoria Stapleton
Cashmere queen Victoria Stapleton left London for the bohemian splendours of a village home in Hertfordshire, in the same property that her husband spent his childhood.Published August 2011
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Our self-build home
Buying an old house can throw up unwanted surprises. Jean-Jacques and Sophie Lorraine overcame every hurdle to build their family home in a north London conservation area.Published July 2011
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Our home: John and Suzanne Fell-Clark
Undaunted by the size of a derelict Suffolk agricultural site beside the River Stour, designers Suzanne and John Fell-Clark turned it into homes for themselves and their family.Published July 2011
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My home: Jane Winkworth
Tucked away in an Algarve village, the owner of French Sole designs her latest shoe collections, distracted only by a daily visit to the local shop and its tethered goat.Published July 2011
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We made a small space work for us
Sometimes it's worth sacrificing space and a garden for a great London location. Jeremy Southgate and his wife Maral, designed their two-bedroom Marylebone flat to be the perfect place for family life.Published June 2011
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A bachelor pad designed to party
A boxy little Maida Vale flat became a light and airy apartment with a smart roof terrace after a space-creative makeover that even came in on budget.Published June 2011
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Get closer to nature with a floating eco-home on the Thames
H&P meets a couple who said goodbye to a noisy London flat and bought a revolutionary new home on the waterPublished June 2011
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A triumph in Wandsworth
Their builder went bankrupt, they had no roof, it was winter and their children were in the middle of GCSEs. But this Wandsworth couple turned disaster into a design triumph.Published May 2011
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Living the Italian dream
Situated in the Niccone Valley, Castello di Reschio is a private estate boasting 2,000 acres of Umbrian countryside. The beautifully restored ruins make an idyllic second home retreat for wealthy owners.Published May 2011
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The sweet smell of success
Perfume-maker to the stars Lyn Harris turned a dark space in Primrose Hill into a light-filled home with a cherished rooftop garden.Published May 2011
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Back at base camp with the Fogles
When the going gets tough, TV adventurer Ben Fogle dreams of the west London home he shares with wife Marina.Published January 2011
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Viva the vibrant: shoe designer’s colourful Fulham home
Cleo Barbour is as bold with colour in her house as she is with her signature stilettos.Published November 2010
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Suffolk's Balancing Barn
Light and airy with enormous windows and a glass floor above a plunging 45-degree grass slope, the Balancing Barn is causing a sensation as Suffolk's most exciting new holiday home.Published November 2010
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Bella's treasures
Queen of recycling and mother of six Bella Huddart styles her ex-council house with recession chic.Published October 2010
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Meet Mrs Firth: eco warrior
Film producer Livia Firth plays the green role in the London family home she shares with Hollywood actor husband Colin, and is the creative director of a Chiswick-based eco-living shop.Published October 2010
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OKA's new flagship store
H&P meets the entrepreneurial trio behind multi-million-pound homeware company OKA - Lucinda Waterhouse, Annabel Astor - Sam Cam's mum, and Sue Jones - as they open its biggest store to date.Published September 2010
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Liz Jones sells her Exmoor pile
Liz Jones is leaving her 'urban chic' Somerset farmhouse in search for more space for her rescue animals and a new chapter for her diary.Published August 2010
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How safe is your home?
Summer is the season for opportunistic thieves, so make your house burglar-proof.Published July 2010
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Max Clifford sells up
As he makes plans to remarry, Britain’s best-known publicist tells H&P about the big names he has entertained in the home he is now selling.Published January 2010
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Queen of bargains
All her bargain-hunting talent was needed when Alison Cork fell for a Belgravia town house she couldn’t afford. But her skills won the prize.Published November 2009
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A touch of glass
Windows that turn opaque, see-through stairs and screens with lights. Glass is eco-friendly and looks stunning.Published July 2009
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French style at home
Take a tour of delicious French B&Bs this summer and be inspired by both their owners, and their charming interiors.Published June 2009
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A classic way to go modern
Interior designer Peter Leonard loves to mix-and-match his styles, which is why he bought a Greek revival villa in Bermondsey.Published May 2009
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Every room has a silver lining
Fabric company director Graham Noakes brought all of his space-creating and colour know-how to his Thamesside apartment.Published March 2009
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Chic on a shoestring
Author Alexandra Campbell has a budget smart home - even her dog Benji was recycled from a rescue home.Published February 2009
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A few of my favourite things
As a child, Brigette Buchanan dreamed of growing up surrounded by cottage comforts. Now she’s turned her home into a business.Published February 2009
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It's all my own work
Sculptor and interior designer Lucho Brieva has made a home and workplace in a large loft-style flat with versatile space and creative storage.Published January 2009
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A marriage of style
A husband-and-wife architect team turned a warren of run-down offices in a Georgian building into a fabulous modern home.Published January 2009
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A writer's retreat
Designer Caroline Zoob lives in Virginia Woolf's magnificent former home, Monk's House in Rodmell, East Sussex.Published January 2009
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The very latest in design
London is the design capital of the world, and our shops are filling up with the fabulous ideas showcased at this autumn's design shows.Published October 2008
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Terence Conran at home
The king of British interior design finds inspiration where he is most happy - at home at Barton Court in west Berkshire.Published September 2008
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Seeing the light
To convert a rundown one-bedroom flat into a modern town house took some creative thinking.Published August 2008
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Fresh as a daisy
Chelsea Design Centre’s personal shopper, Charlie Ford, puts her ideas to the test in a low-budget makeover of her tiny London flat.Published March 2008
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Modern times
An architect couple used an armoury of money- and space-saving ideas when remodelling their Victorian home.Published February 2008
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French style and shabby chic
Appley Hoare has roamed the world buying shabby-chic antiques, with which she fills her French home and sells from her London shop.Published January 2008
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