This property in Edinburgh’s Morningside has a fantastic location and thanks to a well thought-out renovation the interior is just as impressive

This beautifully preserved Arts and Crafts gem has a romantic history and restored charm

I HAD been promising my sister for ages that I would venture into our attic to look for some kids summer clothes I had stashed up there that might be handy for my niece.

Make the most of your produce and discover the time-honoured techniques of preserving fruit and vegetables

A three phase renovation over 15 years has transformed this 1950s house into a contemporary home where light is a key feature

Adding a doorway to the courtyard gave Alasdair Steele’s city centre home a whole new dimension

ARRIVING at the hugely enjoyable Gardening Scotland Show last Friday with my Dad and my youngest, I was full of good intentions to look but not touch.

Each time you are reminded that Traquair, the oldest inhabited house in Scotland is more than 900 years old and has been visited by 27 kings and queens, the knowledge brings with it a fresh sense of excitement.

When Adam and Cathra Kelliher bought Borve Lodge Estate on the island of Harris they were buying into a prestigious legacy. “As the former hunting lodge of the industrial tycoon Lord Leverhulme who bought Harris in 1919, the estate has quite an illustrious history,” says Adam.

Faced with a gloomy West End flat, Lynne Cranston and Robert Woolley removed 180 tonnes of soil in order to bring in the light via a glass walled kitchen and living area

When Maureen and John Welsh found a house in a town special to them, they made their new home just as personal.

Rethinking the interior of a tired 1960s home in East Lothian has given it a better flow, opening it up for a 21st-century lifestyle

HAVING spent last weekend enjoying the weather, things on the domestic front were ignored, which is why, getting home from work on Monday, my aim is to catch up. My other half is out and I intend to storm through the task list.

Tucked away off the busy thoroughfare of Perth Road in Dundee, Kay McIntyre’s large, detached house looks perfectly unassuming from the outside.

Forget about mowing the lawn and pruning the roses, invite a little chaos into your garden and watch the wildlife flourish

THIS summer we’ll be investigating the wild relatives of some of our most familiar vegetables with our ‘Really Wild Vegetable’ trial at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh.

THE moment Sharon Brown stepped inside the grand entrance hall of Ashburn House, she fell in love. “It was the oak panelling and the ceiling plasterwork that attracted me to the house – they are just stunning,” she muses.

WORKING with an international popstar on a cosmetics business and living in rural Aberdeenshire are not the most obvious bedfellows.

THERE are a myriad of reasons why people put their property on the market, but for Duncan and Amanda Forsey it’s a bittersweet one. The couple bought their home at no 10 Albyn Place in Edinburgh in February last year and quickly embarked on an ambitious six-month refurbishment project.

Dandelions, nettles and chickweed are the bane of most gardeners’ lives, cropping up where they are least wanted, between paving stones and in lawns and cultivated flower beds.