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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
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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.
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Heat pumps do bring down energy costs
Heat pumps can bring household energy costs down toless than £2 a day, according to new research
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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
Skär Organics offers the first certified organic, UK-made candles, unfragranced and scented
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
An exhibition of work by renowned multimedia artist and designer Bethan Laura Wood opens this month at the Design Museum in London
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.
Interiors
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
If you love gardening but are in want of a garden, then consider embracing the world of terrariums. A super useful new book is out that shows you how to create mini indoor container gardens that will fascinate and delight
For larger rooms, the wider the planks, the more striking the floor can look. And wood from sustainable forests, or reclaimed wood, are good choices for the eco-minded, nature-loving home-owner
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.
For small projects such as garden rooms, is it time to embrace the ground screw over concrete for the all important foundations?
With spring not far off and food prices still so high, why not plan to grow your own fruit and veg this year? However large or small your outside space, use it to benefit you and the environment
