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Affordable luxuries: eco-friendly candles and diffusers
Sales of scented candles and diffusers 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
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Keep warm and save energy this winter
Snug as a bug in a rug? Or are you plagued by draughts and chills up your spine? With the cost of energy still so high you need Deco’s guide to a warmer, more eco-friendly home
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Home Reimagined art exhibition
The Royal Institute of Oil Painters' 2025 exhibition is on at Mall Galleries. See some 300 oil paintings by leading artists, depicting their take on the theme of home
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Eco-friendly Christmas decorations
Putting up decorations is one of the joys of Christmas. But given that tinsel is made from PVC and so doesn't score highly on the eco points chart, with what should we deck the halls? Kay Hill has some sustainable suggestions
Accessories
Snug as a bug in a rug? Or are you plagued by draughts and chills up your spine? With the cost of energy still so high you need Deco’s guide to a warmer, more eco-friendly home
Putting up decorations is one of the joys of Christmas. But given that tinsel is made from PVC and so doesn't score highly on the eco points chart, with what should we deck the halls? Kay Hill has some sustainable suggestions
With the cost of living crisis making life hard for so many of us, Christmas is a great opportunity to appreciate that less is more when it comes to gifts and decorations...is it not?! So get out the brown paper and the biodegradable glitter, don't buy more food than Bruce Bogtrotter could eat, and remember to compost ALL your peelings
Events
The Royal Institute of Oil Painters' 2025 exhibition is on at Mall Galleries. See some 300 oil paintings by leading artists, depicting their take on the theme of home
Buying antiques is a great way of furnishing with minimal impact on the environment. And if you're always on the look-out for fascinating one-off pieces, don't miss the Decorative Antiques & Textile Fairs, which running through the year
An exhibition of work by renowned multimedia artist and designer Bethan Laura Wood opens this month at the Design Museum in London
Interiors
Poor indoor air quality is in no small part down to humidity which leads to condensation, damp and mould. But you can do something about it without spending a fortune...
We all acquire stuff as we go through life and most of us would, if push comes to shove, agree we're more hoarder than Marie Kondo aficionado. Interior designers Studio Dean urge practicality and suggest we can be a bit more judicious about what we keep and then use some of that stuff to make our homes look cool, not stuffed to the gills
The key to making wise changes to your home is to assess and plan and then do everything in the most eco-friendly, energy efficient way
Gardens
Lots of us tend to think flowers grow in the garden only from spring to early autumn. But we're forgetting our winter friend the cyclamen, which grows in myriad colours and comes in different sizes too.
..and not just for Christmas of course because poinsettias come in many other hues from cream to green to pink. But we tend to buy them as a yuletide tradition and rightly so because they are inject much needed colour at this time of year
Lovely now and lovely in spring.. so if you plan to head to Italy's Genoa region, and you're a keen gardener, find time to visit these gardens on the Ligurian coast, fully restored to glory
