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At home with TV presenter Amanda Lamb
Fresh from renovating her own house, TV presenter Amanda Lamb admits she still can’t resist looking in estate agents’ windows
Style doctor: Your design questions answered
I need to smarten up my bathroom, and thought that as the sink and bath are in good condition I’d just replace the taps. However, what should be a straightforward trip to the local DIY store or plumbers’ merchant is proving more complicated – fashion seems to have changed and brass taps are now scarce.
Recipe for comfort: All the ingredients for a beautiful home
When Robert Gillan walked into this Georgian house in Edinburgh, he knew it had the ingredients to make a beautiful home
Space story: Lake of Menteith cottage turned into family home
It has taken 11 years for Sophie Pither and Jez Lazell’s dreams for a small cottage near Lake of Menteith to be realised. Now they have a large family home
Gardens: A blank canvas for a colourful garden
When Helen and David Raeside moved into their newly-built house they had a blank canvas on which to create a garden
Lynn O'Rourke
Lynn O’Rourke: ‘I can’t put the heating back on... can I?’
THIS chilly weather is putting me behind schedule on all of my attempts at home – and garden – improvements. I still can’t use the decluttered sunroom because it is doing a better impression of a fridge than our kitchen appliance, which has been on its last legs for years.
Lynn O’Rourke: ‘It’s all gone a bit Day of the Triffids’
AS THE sun shone last weekend, our garden was plunged back into life with toys lugged from the garage and the trampoline forced with squeaky protest back into action.
Homes
Lynn O’Rourke: ‘I can’t put the heating back on... can I?’
THIS chilly weather is putting me behind schedule on all of my attempts at home – and garden – improvements. I still can’t use the decluttered sunroom because it is doing a better impression of a fridge than our kitchen appliance, which has been on its last legs for years.
Creating a home full of character
SERENDIPITY is how Pauline Brotherton explains finding Cleish Mill eight years ago.
Style doctor: Your design questions answered
I am looking for a high-back, wing chair for my living room. My style is a mix of modern and vintage furniture, but I would like something that will work as a focal piece. Says, D Johnston
Interiors: ‘Go back and see whether you still like the images’
Magazines remain a favourite source of inspiration for the home decorator and using these to compile a mood board is a helpful – and enjoyable – exercise.
Gardens
Preview: Gardening Scotland at Edinburgh’s Royal Highland Centre
IN THE greenhouses of Kevock Garden Plants near Lasswade, many unusual kinds of primula, elegant trilliums and dactylorhizas, those delicate orchids that flourish in the harsh surroundings of bogs and heathland, are all in bud.
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Saturday 25 May 2013
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