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Bathroom confidential: Inside the calming sanctums of London's top hair and beauty experts

London’s beauty gurus have put some serious thought into designing their bathrooms. We take a tour with Alex Brownsell, Charlotte Mensah and Sam McKnight

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Inside cult jewellery designer Harriet Vine's shoestring transformation of tired flats into a colourful home

How jewellery designer Harriet Vine turned her Hackney disaster into a fully functioning riot of colour

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Don't Move, Improve! Minimalist Hackney home named House of the Year

Scandi minimalism and 1970s flair make this the house of the year

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The Wardrobe Whisperer of Willesden: inside Sarah Corbett-Winder's colourful Thirties family home

How Sarah Corbett-Winder and her husband transformed a total wreck into a fun, happy family home

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How an architect and an antiques dealer fell in love … and completely redesigned a tiny flat

With a little inspiration from Lieutenant Columbo, the challenging transformation of the bijou modernist apartment is now complete

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Don't Move, Improve! Inside the homes shortlisted for top London renovation awards

A budget, DIY extension and eco retrofit are in the running for London’s top architecture awards

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Rooftop extensions take off: the rise and rise of airspace projects

But how easy is it to build up rather than down, and are they the key to unlocking the housing crisis? Anna White talks to those in the know

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London's golden tickets: the home-owners welcoming in strangers at this year's Open House Festival

From modernist triumphs to ‘hit-and-miss’ brickwork, Open House Festival has it all. Meet the hosts sharing insights into their homes

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Small space, big ideas: 'I turned my single-girl crash pad into a tiny family home for £40,000'

After discovering she was pregnant, Louise Glynn needed to make some adjustments to her 450 square foot flat in Bermondsey

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'A lovely place to live': Award-winning Muswell Hill one-bed home on the market for £700,000

Douglas Fir House by Christian Brailey Architects has featured in the pages of Homes & Property before

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'I have eccentric taste': How Real Housewives of Toronto's Ann Kaplan restored her £5.5m castle

The multi-millionaire businesswoman and her husband came to London to buy in Belgravia, but ended up with a fixer-upper castle on the Kentish coast

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'It feels like home': The Victorian house renovation bringing a sense of Sri Lanka to Peckham

A sense of connection with his native Sri Lanka was the unusual brief from tech entrepreneur Puli Liyanagama for his Victorian house in south London

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Welcome to Midburbia: Meet the Londoners rejecting the suburbs in favour of staying close to the action

Priced out of inner London but not content to retreat to the suburbs? These are the meet-in-the-middle places to know

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The flat pack: Meet the London families embracing apartment living

With 42 per cent of young London families living in flats and that figure only rising, these Londoners are eschewing houses and choosing to raise their children in apartments

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'Moving to Goodluck Hope helped Gizmo with his anxiety — and me with my doggy daycare business'

Shari Gill and her rescue dog moved to an award-winning development on the Leamouth Peninsula, where they found an abundance of community and canine-friendly hangouts

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'We built our award-winning family home in Crystal Palace from scratch — here's how we did it'

Architect Will Burges thought he ought to get on with his self-build ambition — now his genius family home in Crystal Palace has been named as Riba London Small Project of the Year

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The Battle for Lewisham: how co-ops are reinvigorating communities

Amid rising rents and closing businesses and venues, locals in the capital are increasingly taking charge of spaces themselves to reinvigorate their communities. Kemi Alemoru reports on the Lewisham co-op scene leading the way

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Spring into action: Britain's best garden designers share their tips for getting into gardening

Expert advice for getting your garden into gear — plus the Londoners who have discovered their green thumbs

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First-time buyers guide: starter flats from £350k to £400k in buzzy postcodes that won't break the bank

Finally in a position to enter the market? Your guide to the London hotspots that first-time buyers need to know

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Fallen out of love with your home? Kunle Barker reignited the romance renovating on a £15k budget

Think carefully about where to save and where to spend, and you can create your dream interiors without compromising on quality

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London's housing market is finally bouncing back — here's how to make it work for you

From boomerang buyers to zone changers, London’s property market is finally on the move once more

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Meet the Londoners giving their local areas a DIY makeover through art, gardening and cinema

These local heroes are making a mark in their communities — through bringing green spaces back to life, creating a cultural hub in the shape of a cinema and turning a home into an artwork

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Luxury homes, video tours and a Netflix series: meet the propfluencers taking over London's property scene

These entrepreneurial ‘propfluencers’ are using social media and their large online followings to sell houses — and disrupt the industry

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"We played Tetris with the floorplan of our Sixities bungalow in Hackney Wick to create a courtyard home"

Clare Charman and James Curtis fell in love with the first house they saw — but not its layout. Luckily they had the skills and the friends to help transform the space.

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Are we witnessing the slow death of Peckham? How residents are battling big business to save the area's soul

The south London neighbourhood has never been so happening — which may be its downfall. As luxury housing and rising rents loom, residents are battling ‘gentrification on steroids’

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