Homestyle UK

After our brief hiatus, it’s great to be back – we’ve missed you all! I know many of you have had time on your hands to plan lots of new decorating projects and we’ve got plenty of inspiration for you in this issue. Not only have we got four amazing

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Pretty pastels will give your home the sweetest lift this season Whether you like just a hint of shimmer or full-on glitz and glam, a touch of gold will make your scheme shine Bring a pop of personality to your interiors with these colourful accesso

1 Use a pale grey or white to ground your pastel scheme, introducing light wooden tones to stop it from getting sickly sweet. Give curtains a quick and easy update with a pompom or tassel trim in a shade darker than the fabric for extra detail. 2

Make your flooring sing with colour and style by incorporating the Memphis look from Carpetright. Mix clashing colours with geometric shapes and a pop-art palette for a clean and cool look. Choose a statement shade to wake up your home office, enrich

I’m Cassie Schifano and I’m married to Ben, a mechanic. We have six children: Kiki, Isadora, Arrietty, Mitzi, Fionnuala and Huxley. I document our interiors on Instagram at@wheretheeightdwell. Home is a 1950s five-bedroom detached house in Woking.

• One of the easiest ways to update a room is to paint a wall in one bold colour. The big DIY and homes stores sell their own paints now and often have colours that will match the more expensive brands. Use tester pots first to check a colour suits t

• The internet is your friend, both for design and practical help. You can be inspired by the millions of images out there or learn to do anything via online videos if you’re ready to give it a go. • Don’t be scared of change. If you put something up

* Patterned paper * White card * Glue gun * Sticky foam pads * Wire lampshade frame 1 Cut out different-sized circles from your patterned paper. For a neater result, find some circular items of different sizes, such as jar lids, cups and drinking g

I’m Charlotte Knowles (@gosforthhome), 28. I live with my husband Jonathan, 31, and our two dachshunds, Austin and Magnus. We live in a five-bedroom three-storey Victorian terraced house in Gosforth, Newcastle, which we bought four years ago. S

• Have a stand-out feature, whether it’s a stunning freestanding bath, twin basins, unusual tiles, a designer towel rail or a statement chair. Alternatively, you can elevate a standard suite with black, copper or antique bronze taps. • Consider creat

• Unusual-shaped tiles, like our hexagon designs in the bathroom, will take longer to lay so you’ll spend more on labour. Also, make sure your tiler has the same vision as you. Although I’d drawn out a rough sketch of how I wanted the tiles to go par

* Double duvet cover made from natural fibres * Four litres of soya milk * Water * Yellow onion skins * Strong cotton string * Rope * Large stock pot * Two buckets * Sieve * Clothes pegs * Plastic sheet 1 Wash the duvet cover, then let it soak in a

I’m Kate, a lifestyle blogger at Kate la Vie. I live here with my husband Jordan, who owns a coffee shop, and our two cats. I live in a two-bedroom traditional Victorian tenement flat in the south side of Glasgow. I wanted to make the most of t

• Creating your ideal home is a long process! Even now, I still have a few odd jobs on my DIY to-do list. • Living in your home for a while before you start any renovations is important. It really helps you get a feel for the space in each room and h

* Slingback armchair * Piece of leather to fit your chair * Craft knife * Staple gun 1 Carefully remove the old fabric from the chair. 2 Cut the leather to the length of the old fabric, adding an extra 7.5cm at both ends to give you enough to fol

I’m Aisling Bent and I live here with my partner, Dennis Collins, my son, Ailin, three, and daughter, Keena, one. My home is a three-bedroom terrace in Kinsale, County Cork, built 15 years ago. I’ve lived here for six years. Everything… It was

* 13cm embroidery hoop * 9cm square tile * 6m of 5mm cotton cord * Glue gun * Sharp scissors 1 Unscrew the embroidery hoops and spread them open so the space in between matches the width of the tile. 2 Use the glue gun to secure the top of the ho

We live in a quirky cottage in the east of Fife in Scotland there aren’t two rooms in it that are the same shape or size! I have eclectic taste and love to play with colour. My youngest children share a room and when the time came to decorate it they

Vanity units are brilliant for creating extra storage without compromising on floor space. This compact design is large enough to hide all manner of mess without taking over the room. We love the on-trend brass accessories and moody blue tone. Make

I’m Sarah Haigh and I live in a four-bedroom semi-detached house in West Yorkshire with my husband, Darryl and our children, Elsie, 10, and Woody, five. The bathroom looked permanently dirty – nothing had been changed for years. There were nasty y

Leafy plants were the last piece of the styling jigsaw after Sarah had hung the botanical blind. ‘I bought a faux fern and it wasn’t really meant for the bathroom,’ she says. ‘On a whim, I put it in here and instantly loved the way the greenery broug

Artificial grass is a great for compact or shady gardens and requires nothing more than a quick brush to keep clean! Toni and Chris bought their grass by the metre and laid it directly over the existing level paving, which allows them to roll it back

Use hanging planters, trellises, raised beds, troughs and pots to give your flowers and plants height and maximise space. Tall flowers and trees in pots will also help to create privacy. Combine wooden features with weatherproof, metallic accessories

‘I looked around for colourful wooden bar stools, but they were all so expensive,’ says Suzie. ‘So I decided to paint my own with eggshell paint from The Little Greene Paint Company.’ Suzie went for different colours for each of the Nilsolle wooden b

Before you buy anything new, look to see what you already have. Put colourful cookbooks, casserole dishes or tableware you might have hidden away in the cupboard, out on display on open shelving or on worktops for an easy hit of colour. Pick accessor

Prep and cook time 30 MINS Serves 4 * 1 onion, chopped * 2 tbsp olive oil * 2 tsp hot smoked paprika * 2 garlic cloves, sliced * 8 sausages, skin removed * 200g mushrooms, sliced * good splash of white wine, about 150ml * 400g can chopped tomatoes

* Chilli flakes * Garlic * Onions * Olive oil * Chopped tomatoes * Chicken stock * Plain flour * Milk * Lemons * Smoked paprika * Parmesan * Root ginger * Soy sauce * Sweet chilli sauce * Sesame oil * Limes * Vegetable oil * Sesame seeds * Rice * Pin

If you can’t get hold of fresh herbs, a couple of drops of culinary essential oils are the next best thing to brighten up your dishes. Young Living has three new steam-distilled flavours: Parsley+, Coriander+ and Citrus Fresh+. Prices for the new oil

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