• Indigo Ochre wool flatweave gelim by Ptolemy Mann Rugs and runners: an easy way to enhance your home

    For many of us, it's the rug that maketh the room... a beautiful rug adds colour, texture and softness underfoot. We've compiled a variety of designs across the price ranges that will put a spring in our step as we tread through 2025

  • 25 Cannon Street roof garden Secret Gardens

    Head to the capital in early June for London Parks and Gardens' annual open gardens event. It's a chance to see more than 100 gardens across London that aren't usually open to the public - from the rose-filled secret gardens in posh central London, to the corporate roof gardens of the City of London, to the working gardens of local communities and charities.

  • Heat pumps do bring down energy costs

    Heat pumps can bring household energy costs down toless than £2 a day, according to new research

  • Malkia scented candles Affordable luxuries: eco-friendly candles

    Sales of candles, particularly fragranced ones, continue to grow. And we're seeing more small artisan manufacturers bring delicious, quirky, new fragrances to the market while striving to make their products environmentally friendly

     

Accessories

Don't surreptiously wipe sticky fingers on your clothes...invest a few pounds in some impactful paper napkins that will elevate every mealtime

Star organic beeswax British made candles

 Skär Organics offers the first certified organic, UK-made candles, unfragranced and scented

Arcana's lovely wraps and blankets are made from recycled cotton

A wrap or blanket is much appreciated on a chilly morning or evening. Arcana's Night Garden and forthcoming Spring Botanical designs have been hand drawn and and are woven in small batches from recycled cotton 

Events

The Design Museum in London is extending until the end of May its Tim Burton retrospective. It's proving the museum's most successful exhibition ever, with more than 170,000 visitors to date

Bethan Laura Wood

An exhibition of work by renowned multimedia artist and designer Bethan Laura Wood opens this month at the Design Museum in London

25 Cannon Street roof garden

Head to the capital in early June for London Parks and Gardens' annual open gardens event. It's a chance to see more than 100 gardens across London that aren't usually open to the public - from the rose-filled secret gardens in posh central London, to the corporate roof gardens of the City of London, to the working gardens of local communities and charities.