Chess sets and backgammon boards are a familiar sight on drawing-room tables, but one expert Highland woodworker is refashioning their forms in beautiful new ways, writes Mary Miers

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Westminster Hall’s 14th-century carved angels were the inspiration behind woodcarver William Barsley’s own celestial choir

Looking for a new bathroom but not sure where to begin? With its all-round approach, Easy Bathrooms takes the hassle out of bathroom buying, offering everything from inspiring ideas to tailormade desi

Mary Keen visits Garden & Wood, the mecca for dedicated gardeners who prefer using tools made in the 1940s

Between a Constable resonating with Nature and a Castiglione blaring with turbulence, a picture by Algernon Newton captured the quietude of absolute stillness