Design Ideas
Design Ideas
A complete guide to choosing paint colour like a House & Garden editor
Choosing paint colours can be a fiendishly difficult task, but our deputy decoration editor Ruth Sleightholme has some advice on how to make it easier.
Design Ideas
Interior designers demonstrate how to decorate with pattern
Ruth Sleightholme and Elena Smintina use examples from the world's best interior designers to show how florals, antique textiles, striped fabrics and carefully chosen colour palettes can be used to create distinctive yet harmonious schemes
Decoration
Design ideas for narrow kitchens
If you've just moved into a small apartment or a retrofitted, older house, chances are you're dealing with a narrow kitchen. We've gathered our favourite design ideas to help you widen your design scope to get your kitchen cooking
Decoration
Why we love reeded glass in kitchens
More and more designers seem to be using reeded glass in kitchens – and for good reason
Decoration
The retro return: why frills and bows are back
Whether we're looking for an antidote to mundane monotones, or a bit of food for the soul – 70s and 80s frills and fun are back with a bang
Decoration
The storage solutions we can't stop thinking about
There are storage solutions and then there are these nifty ideas, which go beyond the usual expectations
Decoration
How to design a Victorian house
So you have a Victorian house? Here are the late 19th-century highlights from the House & Garden archives to help your decorating decisions
Shopping
Why interior designers adore Josef Frank – and how to use his designs at home
The architect and designer who helped to set up Svenskt Tenn in Stockholm has had a huge influence on the course of interior design – we pick our favourite design ideas for using his patterns in a scheme
Decoration
Is lavender the new colour to know?
Once considered the nadir of the colour palette, are we seeing a reputation-shaking comeback from this most pasty shade of pale purple?
Design Ideas
In praise of modernist ex-local-authority houses (and ideas for decorating them)
Britain's urban areas are packed with modernist ex-local-authority houses, the under-sung heroes of the housing market.
Decoration
Is using a motif the best way to make a house feel cohesive?
You might balk at the suggestion of theming your house, but what if we told you that interior designers have secretly been doing it for years?
Bathroom
How to design a downstairs loo with character
Design ideas for smart downstairs loos, with expert tips from Retrouvius on how to bring personality to any space.
Design Ideas
Cheap, smart uses for IKEA furniture in interior design schemes
In celebration of all things IKEA, here are several instances when designers used the Scandi behemoth in extremely smart interiors – and you probably didn’t even notice
Decoration
The dos and don'ts of kitchen design
We've gone through the House & Garden archives to pull together the ultimate list of what to do – and what not to do – when it comes to designing a kitchen
Decoration
Five clever layout tricks for small bedrooms
If you want to make the most of a small bedroom, try these on for size
Design Ideas
Interesting ways to decorate alcoves
How to decorate an alcove, whether it's an awkward space in your bedroom or bathroom, or those fireplace-adjacent recesses that are just waiting to be filled
Decoration
16 design ideas for antique mirror panels
Inspirational and imaginative ways to decorate using antique mirror panels
Kitchens
27 modern kitchen design ideas from the House & Garden archive
Be inspired by this collection of modern kitchen ideas from the House & Garden archive
Decoration
How to make your shelves a decorative statement
Shelves (and the things you put on them) have an important role to play in our interiors, and can be crucial to decorative schemes
Decorating Advice
19 refreshing windowless bathroom ideas from the House & Garden archive
Windowless bathrooms needn't be dank, forgotten rooms in your home…