House Beautiful UK

House Beautiful is your one-stop shop for classic decorating looks, with regular and comprehensive colour-scheming pages and a wide range of shopping suggestions for those special details that make a difference. With real reader homes from around the UK - ranging from comfortable country style to the chic city look – House Beautiful provides inspiration and practical advice whatever your decorating tastes. Plus, expert advice on everything from choosing the right mortgage to finding your perfect property.

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House Beautiful UK

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Your style guide • The latest updates, shopping and trends for your interiors

Oka x Lewis & Wood • Sue Jones, creative director of Oka, shares her favourite pieces from the lively and characterful new collection

Spot on • Bring a sense of fun to any room with a trend we’re dotty about

The details that make a room • This month, Africa Daley-Clarke tells us why the little things are the big things when it comes to renovating your home

Ayisha Onuorah • From modelling to home decor, the former Interior Design Masters contender has always been driven by creativity. Now, she is taking that vision a step further with her expressive debut fabric collection

WHERE GREAT ROOMS BEGIN • The House Beautiful Real Style Awards celebrate the brands that prove good design isn’t just something to admire, it’s something to live with. Chosen by our editors, this year’s winners get it right time and again, raising the bar with furniture built to last, storage that works harder, colours that lift your mood and inspiring ideas that make everyday life at home more beautiful.

Decorate • FRESH LOOKS & BRIGHT IDEAS

A fresh take on country • The look is cosy and considered, swapping grandmotherly florals for graphic pattern, fussy frills for tailored skirts and faded, painterly palettes for confident colour

Country, but make it modern • Sophie Robinson on creating a look that’s charming rather than chintzy

Guide to RENOVATING • Whether you’re knocking down walls or building new ones, here’s how the experts take hopeless befores to stylish ever-afters

GROUND RULES • From wood-stained chequerboards to playful mosaics and paint effects, often the best design starts with what lies beneath

Homes • RENOVATION SPECIAL: REAL-LIFE TRANSFORMATION STORIES

Room to breathe • Downsizing to an apartment by the coast was just the opportunity one couple needed to create a calm and beautifully considered sanctuary

HOW TO Find your vintage vibe • Pre-loved pieces bring a warm, individual look to Lisa’s home. We’ve asked three experts how to incorporate them to create a space that feels truly personal

A HOME REINVENTED • Natural materials, warm tones and an open-plan scheme have transformed this 1970s ex-council house from its bland, boxy beginnings

HOW TO Get the look • Earthy colours and tactile textures give Olive’s home a relaxed bohemian feel

The second life of a historic cottage • Hidden beneath decades of neglect and engulfed by overgrown gardens, this tiny miner’s cottage looked destined for ruin – until an intrepid couple uncovered its potential

HOW TO Work with white • Decorating with the world’s most popular paint colour can be surprisingly tricky but, with our expert advice, you can recreate the magic Claire has brought to her cottage

California dreaming • Vibrant colour and pattern bring sunny West Coast vibes to this reworked 1970s home in Bristol

WE'RE INSPIRED BY… Neon brights • Jacqueline has used flashes of fluorescence to inject her home with daring colour

A LEAP OF FAITH • An abandoned Sunday...