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Country

A serene country retreat drawn from a former cowshed by our new Rising Star

By Virginia Clark

House & Garden's Top 100 Interior Designers & Architects

Meet our new Top 100 interior designers and architects for 2024

By House & Garden

City Gardens

A perfectly formed small city garden by our Garden Designer of the Year

By Jodie Jones

The dos and don'ts of decorating

Our Lifetime Achievement award winner's dos and don'ts of decorating with textiles

By Christine Van Der Hurd

House & Garden's Top 100 Interior Designers & Architects

Meet the House & Garden award winners for 2024

By House & Garden

Shopping

Desserts and Cakes

Lemon cream cake

By Ravneet Gill

Cake recipes

Wild blueberry and almond babka loaf

By Ren Behan

Seasonal recipes from Sally Clarke's restaurant

Rhubarb, almond and blood orange cake

By Sally Clarke

Cake recipes

What to buy for your house

What to buy for your house this May, according to our style director

By Ruth Sleightholme

Wise Buys

Knock, knock: 8 house numbers that will make a good first impression

By Elena Smintina

Shopping

Leave me hanging: 20 really good plates to put on your wall

By Arabella Bowes

Bedroom shopping

28 best bed frames to buy now

By Arabella Bowes

Shopping

What a mug: our editors weigh in on what makes the perfect mug

By Arabella Bowes

Houses by Rita Konig, Interior Designer of the Year

Traditional Houses

Rita Konig's design for Deborah Needleman's upstate New York cottage

By Deborah Needleman

Country

Rita Konig brings ease and warmth to a sprawling 19th-century country house

By Emily Senior

Quiet Interiors

Rita Konig has subtly enhanced the airy interiors of this Manhattan house

By Lucie Young

Houses by our Top 100 Interior Designers & Architects

From the archive: a clever former incarnation of Rita Konig's London flat (2016)

By Daisy Bridgewater

Gardens by our Top 50 Garden Designers

Gardens by our Top 50 Garden Designers

Tom Stuart-Smith's vibrant yet tranquil design for the garden at The Hepworth Wakefield

By Caroline Beck

City Gardens

Jinny Blom has created a lush tropical garden in the heart of London

By Jodie Jones

Gardens by our Top 50 Garden Designers

The garden of a former abbey combining ecclesiastical symmetry with informal planting

By Clare Foster

Gardens

A derelict Cotswolds garden revived with enchanting, naturalistic planting

By Kendra Wilson

London Houses

A West London family home given a new lease of life by Polly Ashman

By Christabel Chubb

Houses belonging to interesting people

American Houses

A charming cottage set amongst the lush landscape of North Carolina

By Charlotte McCaughan-Hawes

London Houses

An artist's layered and light-filled house, arranged with a painter's eye

By Elizabeth Metcalfe

London Houses

An idiosyncratic London flat filled with auction-house treasures and handmade pieces

By Ruth Sleightholme

Houses belonging to interesting people

Behind the scenes at Glyndebourne

By Ticky Hedley-Dent

Decorating advice

Decorating Advice

Suffering from decision paralysis at home? Here's how to get over it

By Fiona McKenzie Johnston

Decorating Advice

How to start a scheme from scratch

By Charlotte McCaughan-Hawes

Decoration

How to increase the kerb appeal of your house

By Eleanor Cording-Booth

Kitchens

Beyond Shaker style: how to create a kitchen with character

By Eleanor Cording-Booth

Cottages

Cottages

An 18th-century cottage in a picture-perfect village in the Yorkshire Dales

By Fiona McKenzie Johnston

Cottages

A deep respect for the past is evident in the London home and Welsh cottage of potter Steve Harrison

By Charlotte McCaughan-Hawes

Photography by Owen Gale

Design Ideas

The most charming English country cottages from the House & Garden archive

By Virginia Clark

Country Cottages

An interior designer's Welsh cottage, inventively furnished with second-hand finds

By Elfreda Pownall

Planting advice

Gardening Calendar

What to plant in May (and other garden tasks for this month)

By Clare Foster

Planting Advice

Our garden editor's perfect planting scheme for spring borders

By Clare Foster

Planting Advice

A guide to virtually indestructible house plants

By Leanne Walstow

Planting Advice

The unusual plants to champion in your garden this year

By Tabi Jackson Gee

Houses packed with colour

Houses to rent

A deeply stylish house you can stay in on one of Bath's loveliest streets

By Virginia Clark

Houses packed with colour

A gloriously colourful Highbury abode decorated on a budget

By Charlotte McCaughan-Hawes

London Houses

A London apartment that feels like a country house in miniature

By Serena Fokschaner

Country

A charming 15th-century home in Sussex gets a colourful overhaul by Phoebe Hollond

By Emily Senior

The House & Garden agony aunt

The House & Garden Agony Aunt

Dear Fiona: I think I want separate bedrooms, but does this mean that my marriage is over?

By Fiona McKenzie Johnston

Books

Dear Fiona: what's wrong with keeping books in the loo?

By Fiona McKenzie Johnston

The House & Garden Agony Aunt

Dear Fiona: I can't figure out where to start with paint colours at home - help!

By Fiona McKenzie Johnston

The House & Garden Agony Aunt

Dear Fiona: how can I help my soon-to-be husband develop an interest in interiors?

By Fiona McKenzie Johnston

Houses by the sea

Inside Patrick Leigh Fermor's beautiful, book-filled house in the Peloponnese

By Miguel Flores-Vianna

City houses with contemporary interiors

Houses

An interior designer creates a harmonious home for herself from a formerly disorganised mansion flat

By Fiona McKenzie Johnston

London Houses

Bryan O'Sullivan imbues a Notting Hill townhouse with imagination

By Charlotte McCaughan-Hawes

City Houses

Interior designer Pernille Lind creates a warm sanctuary in a Victorian terrace

By Athina Kontos

American Houses

An interior designer's warm and layered San Francisco terraced house

By Elizabeth Metcalfe

Garden design ideas

Gardens

17 smart small front garden ideas for every budget

By Charlotte McCaughan-Hawes and Antonia Bentel

Gardens

Design ideas for elegant greenhouses

By Virginia Clark

Garden design ideas

What is chaos gardening and should we all be trying it?

By Hazel Sillver and Charlotte McCaughan-Hawes

Gardens

Pergola ideas for gardens of any size and design

By Charlotte McCaughan-Hawes

Our Top 100 and who's who for 2024

House & Garden's Top 100 Interior Designers & Architects

Meet House & Garden's Rising Stars–the design talents to watch for 2024

By Christabel Chubb

Gardens

House & Garden's Top 50 Garden Designers

House & Garden's Top 100 Interior Designers & Architects

Meet the fresh entries to this year's Top 100

By House & Garden

House & Garden's Top 100 Interior Designers & Architects

Devilled eggs, train sets and Racing Demon: how our Top 100 interior designers spend the festive season

By Fiona McKenzie Johnston

The List

The List

What to expect from List members at Chelsea this year

By Lucy Boulton

The List

Our favourite spring decor from members of The List by House & Garden

By Lucy Boulton

The List Designer Insight

Members of The List by House & Garden share their top tricks for adding character to a new build

By Lucy Boulton

The List Designer Insight

Five tips for downsizing your house in style

By Lucy Boulton

Video

At home with Will Fisher and Charlotte Freemantle, the founders of Jamb

Benedict Foley and Daniel Slowik’s cottage in the Dedham Vale | Design Notes

Video

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The Women of Petersham Nurseries | House & Garden