Our panel of design experts helps us decide between scrimp and splurge-worthy finishes, fixings and furniture

An artist kitted out the bathroom in her 200-year-old home with secondhand finds and a can-do attitude

We’d been renting for 16 years and lived in our previous property for 11 of those. It was our dream to own somewhere, but we knew we’d have to save hard, and that we’d probably need to take on somethi

There were two main sticking points when Teri Muncey began looking for a new home for her young family: time and a lack of options. ‘I was living nearby but I had to find somewhere to move quickly as

FEW EXPERIENCES STRESS-TEST RESILIENCE MORE THOROUGHLY THAN A PROPERTY RENOVATION. BUT WITH THE RIGHT HELP AND A BIT OF PLANNING, IT COULD MEAN THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A SALE OR A PROPERTY LOSING VALUE, FINDS ARABELLA YOUENS

My last place was lovely but very neutral, and I’d always held back a bit with decorating. But this home felt different. Although the interior was stuck in the 1990s, it had great bones. The big rooms