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    • Tuesday, 24 January, 2023
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      Grosvenor Square’s original US embassy building gets the poshest — and most discreet — of residential makeovers

      Neo-Georgian facade and Joe Kennedy’s replica of the White House Oval Office among the period features expertly preserved in conversion to luxury apartments

    • Monday, 23 January, 2023
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      Fantasy home: a homesteader’s life inspired by the movie, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford 

      Our writer craves moments on the porch to reflect on the forging of a new life — without the anxiety or dread of an outlaw

    • Tuesday, 17 January, 2023
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      The best home tech at CES 2023

      This year’s most exciting innovations, from wireless televisions and retro-looking hi-fi to colour-changing fridges and ovens that alert you when your lasagne is about to burn

    • Monday, 16 January, 2023
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      Five of the best homes for sale in Europe for winter sun

      Prime property where it stays mild, the skies are blue and the water beckons

    • Tuesday, 10 January, 2023
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      The biggest residential architecture trends for 2023

      Predictions from four architecture practices include a greater shift towards sustainable and natural materials and a re-sensualising of the built environment

    • Monday, 9 January, 2023
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      Fantasy home: a Knightsbridge flat inspired by the atypical student pad in the movie, The Souvenir

      Our writer covets the salubrious sanctuary of the film’s protagonist, who, like her, is a young woman trying to make it in the big city

    • Tuesday, 3 January, 2023
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      The biggest garden design trends for 2023

      Top outdoor designers on how we will approach our outdoor space

    • Monday, 2 January, 2023
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      Five of the world’s best homes in the mountains

      Ancient castles, traditional style ski lodges and modern luxury homes that offer spectacular views or access to great skiing

    • Tuesday, 27 December, 2022
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      The biggest residential design trends for 2023

      Top interiors experts on what is next in home decor

    • Tuesday, 20 December, 2022
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      Fantasy home: A festive fixer-upper inspired by the house from It’s a Wonderful Life

      The film shows how a property can become part of the story of people’s lives — especially at Christmas

    • Tuesday, 13 December, 2022
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      Interior designer Shalini Misra on how to make a statement with your staircase

      Top tips for lighting a stairwell, decorating its walls and using furnishings

    • Monday, 12 December, 2022
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      Fantasy home: the eerie symbolism of The White Lotus’s Sicilian palazzos

      Decorated with renaissance art and the baroque possessions of impoverished nobility, Taormina’s Palazzo San Domenico is the stuff of Greek tragedies

    • Monday, 5 December, 2022
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      Fantasy home: a cluttered New York loft inspired by US teen drama, Gossip Girl

      A decade after first watching the show, our writer finds herself drawn to the lived-in nature of a less affluent character’s apartment

    • Monday, 5 December, 2022
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      Interior designer Fran Hickman on how to use shade to your advantage

      Why you shouldn’t be afraid of the dark 

    • Tuesday, 29 November, 2022
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      The luxury Canary Wharf tower where the highest apartments have several terraces and internal courtyards

      Each duplex penthouse at One Park Drive is uniquely configured to maximise its aspect and position within the building

    • Monday, 28 November, 2022
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      Five of the world’s best homes for sale for music lovers

      From historic organs to recording studios and nightclubs, prime property for listening to music, mixing tracks or dancing

    • Tuesday, 22 November, 2022
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      Fantasy home: an artist’s studio inspired by Van Gogh’s Yellow House, in Arles

      Recreating the building would allow this writer to host a hive of creativity much as the painter longed for

    • Monday, 21 November, 2022
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      The beautifully renovated San Francisco house unexpectedly built in the medieval English style

      The imposing 1915 home full of Gothic-Tudor elements was a reaction to the ‘gingerbread-house’ Victoriana of the time

    • Tuesday, 15 November, 2022
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      Interior designer Bryan O’Sullivan on how to add character to a bedroom

      Mix different eras and styles — it will make the room feel curated and instil a sense of timelessness

    • Monday, 14 November, 2022
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      Fantasy home: a desire to recreate the past, just like the film, Good Bye Lenin!

      To overcome feelings of disquiet, our writer, like Daniel Brühl’s character, would borrow what he loved about his previous homes to shape his abode

    • Tuesday, 8 November, 2022
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      The best tech for saving energy this winter

      Efficient appliances and clever gadgets that help conserve power

    • Monday, 7 November, 2022
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      For their interiors inspiration, Battersea Power Station’s residential architects turned to the building’s original role

      The 1930s Art Deco control room, steel girders and other heritage materials found in derelict areas were used as the basis for two design palettes

    • Tuesday, 1 November, 2022
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      Fantasy home: a stay at the Park Hyatt in Tokyo inspired by Lost in Translation 

      Living in the hotel of the film would allow our writer to indulge in experiencing conflicting feelings towards ‘fixedness’

    • Monday, 31 October, 2022
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      The English country home that has been transformed into a magnet for wildlife

      A 10-year project has made the gardens and wild areas of Gloucestershire property a haven of biodiversity

    • Tuesday, 25 October, 2022
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      Fantasy home: teleported to the Midwest by the music and cover art of cult classic album, American Football

      Picture of the whiteboard house triggers in our writer a memory of how, as a frustrated English teenager, he longed for the possibilities of life away from home

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