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 The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds is urging us to keep an eye out for our fine friends with feathers as the weather turns colder |
 Make 2024 the year you get into furniture painting! Annie Sloan's enduringly useful and popular book Colour Recipes for Painted Furniture shows you how to upcycle old furniture and tired walls and floors using eco-friendly chalk paint |
 Blinds offer the best solution for window treatments. They can be eminently affordable, easy to install and they give a smart finished look to all rooms |
 Tenovus, one of Wales' leading cancer care charities, is urging us to buy from their new online shop to help ensure its funds can meet demand |
 A survey finds we Brits are becoming increasingly concerned about the serious shortage of housing in the UK - and many of us have ideas on how to sort it out |
 The award-winning architect designed homes for a new co-housing project in Cambridge. These projects are great, he says - though the future for housing lies in far greater freeing up of land. |
 You probably had them when you were a kid and if you're now buying them for your children, well it's good to know Matchbox is making tiny E-vehicles from recycled and recyclable plastic or bio-based plastic as well as metal |
 If/when you're in London, there's still time to head to the wonderful Design Museum in Kensington for an inspiring free exhibition - How to Build a Low Carbon Home |
 Harry Villiers, of furniture making brothers Villiers Brothers, took some steel, wood and glass and built an enviable bolt-hole in his Essex garden |
