Some people have an aptitude for seeking out properties that might be classed as diamonds in the rough, others have an innate knack for sourcing brilliantly priced interior finds. Simon Fenwick, it qu

Having lived in a handsome 16th-century farmhouse in rural Essex for 45 years, downsizing was much less of a wrench for Gill Jerram than she had imagined when an opportunity arose to build a beautiful

There are several details throughout this listed townhouse in Hampshire that betray its varied history. ‘It was once a sheriff’s house and used to hold a lock-up. The door on the downstairs loo is sti

“The scene that matters the most to me, weirdly, is the first thing that we ever shot, which is the boys playing Dungeons & Dragons in the basement,” says Ross Duffer, co-creator of Stranger Things, a

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It is raining sideways in north Wales when Nick Knowles joins our Zoom. He has just come off site at a DIY SOS Big Build, soaked, wind-blown and apologising for being late. There has been, he explains