I moved into my first apartment last June. Before that, I'd lived my life in relatively spacious countryside homes and city terrace houses, and if I'm honest, I didn't consider the potential differences apartment life might brings.

A kitchen makeover isn't just about redecorating in the traditional sense by painting walls or replacing cupboard fronts - in fact, this might actually be the worst way to makeover your kitchen. Instead, think about investing in some new gadgets and equipment.

Your home is a great chance to express your personal style, but like fashions we see on the runway, each season there are key themes that retailers and interiors magazines will be focusing on. The big change this year is that colour is back.

Although I love all the traditional decorations around Christmas, I also like to add a modern spin on things. In the past, I have painted holly and berries white and added them to a bowl of coloured baubles.

It's less than two weeks until Christmas, and while some of us are totally sorted with the decorations, some of us are still in need of a little inspiration. Here are some of my favourite styling ideas for the festivities, which are very simple but yet truly effective.

Fancy giving your home a much-needed design boost? Spruce up your interiors with these must-have, quirky accessories that will make yours a house ...

New research shows how targeting two bacterial genes into an ornamental plant (Pelargonium), can produce long-lived and pollen-free plants. Spanish...

I think there is a common view that storage has to come in flat packs or it has to be new and with crisp edges or indeed plastic and formal... boring even!

I was warned by friends from the mid-west that people in New York aren't as nice as elsewhere. That they are impersonal, hurried, aggressive. And they absolutely are. They are also kind, friendly, welcoming, inquisitive, calm, careless, peaceful, black, white, Muslim, Christian, egotistical, rap-loving, rap-hating, careful, Hispanic. No one belongs. Yet everyone does.

At least 12 million Britons could be allergic to their own homes, according to a new survey. Allergy UK said "home fever", also known...

I have home envy. I am staring at magazine pictures of white porticos and swimming pools. This latest piece of eye-melting loveliness is my fantasy h...