Craft diary stuart hillard

The chance to restore a stable block near their old home has given Tish Potter and Jim Down the perfect place to enjoy big family festivities

Let age-old traditions and midwinter foliage inspire a homespun Christmas scheme, creating nostalgic charm with layered rustic textures, artisan pieces and an earthy palette

Sibyl Colefax & John Fowler’s associate director Chloe Willis talks entertaining essentials

Life in the Dales means embracing the seasons and for Hannah Gatecliffe, Christmas brings family fun as well as quieter moments to enjoy the wintry landscape

Harriet Hastings restored a traditional Suffolk long house and built a new barn alongside it, providing space for all the family, especially at Christmas

SINCE my mum died, it seems the family have been together more than ever. There were well over 140 mourners at the funeral, then we had the Australians here last weekend and today it’s my nephew’s wed