House Beautiful UK

House Beautiful is your one-stop shop for classic decorating looks, with regular and comprehensive colour-scheming pages and a wide range of shopping suggestions for those special details that make a difference. With real reader homes from around the UK - ranging from comfortable country style to the chic city look – House Beautiful provides inspiration and practical advice whatever your decorating tastes. Plus, expert advice on everything from choosing the right mortgage to finding your perfect property.

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Your style guide • The latest updates, shopping and trends for your interiors

Anthropologie x Harlie Brown • The ceramics designer who brings wiggly handles to mugs and French flair to tableware tells us about her new sun-soaked collection

Superfreak café • With its earthy tones, natural materials and distinctly laidback vibe, this café in Sydney, Australia, is the epitome of louche 1970s cool. To recreate the look in your home, team buttery yellows, warm browns and tactile materials with boxy shapes and softer curves, and finish off with some retro wall art

Rainbow brights • A kaleidoscopic edit of fun and flamboyant pieces

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Evergreen • Here’s how to introduce this versatile colour, in all its wonderful variations, into your home

SAGE ADVICE ON CHOOSING GREEN • We’ve rounded up a few of our favourite shades – perfect for drenching your walls or introducing as an accent

MODERN FLORALS • Floral prints aren’t just for fans of cottagecore. There’s one to suit every kind of space: bold and bright, edgy and cool or wonderfully demure

GOOD NOOKS • It’s time to relish all those tight spots and awkward alcoves in your home. Get inspired by these cleverly designed nooks that are perfect for reading, dining and daydreaming

How to DOUBLE DRENCH your home • It’s the painting technique that’s making a splash in the design world. Our interiors expert Sophie Robinson reveals how saturating a room in two tones can make a huge visual impact – or a beautifully quiet impression

FIND THE BEST Small-space furniture • Compact rooms need clever design and there’s plenty to be found on the high street

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CIRCLING THE SQUARE • A formerly boxy apartment is softened with curves and arches – the signature style of its artist owner

HOW TO Create flow in a boxy space • Lois’s flat is full of inventive features and curvy furniture that beautifully offset its blocky proportions. We asked three design experts how they would bring a sense of fluidity and ease to smaller rooms

Dutch courage • A pared-back approach to design ensures everything has its place in this compact Rotterdam apartment

We’re inspired by… • Ulli’s neat foldaway workstation – here are some equally clever WFH space-savers

THE LITTLE PLAYHOUSE BUILT FOR FOUR • Originally conceived as a temporary base, this garden studio became home to Sofie and her family for almost three years

HOW TO Carve out wall storage • In her multipurpose garden room, Sofie ditched the floorplan and took a vertical approach to tucking things away. Here, three experts share their nifty storage solutions

TALE OF A SINGLE STOREY • While transforming this dilapidated 1960s bungalow, its owners discovered a love for polished mid-century design

HOW TO Play with pattern • There’s no need to rein in your creativity just because space is tight – Jamie’s choice of eye-catching prints injects warmth and personality into his home. Our design pros weigh in on colourful ways to make it work

THE ART OF ZONING IN A PARISIAN STUDIO • ‘Cosy and...