As a 700-year-old family pile goes on sale for £21m, how stately homes take over owners’ lives – and ruin their finances ...

Hot on the heels of the warmest spring on record, Australia is baking through another scorching summer. Heat waves around the ...

Most come to the Summer Garden to just ... (it's just two stories and houses seven rooms), many past visitors chose not to tour the interior. The Summer Garden is accessible from the Gostiny ...

Is Old Man Winter nipping at your nose, chilling your toes, and driving up your utility bill with the increased use of your ...

Architecture studio Nikjoo has completed Lode, a redbrick townhouse in east London interwoven with courtyards to provide ...

However, the powder room had its quirks ... shot construction costs sky-high. Last summer, we finally bit the bullet: We rebuilt the porch into a well-insulated mudroom masterpiece, and we ...

the garden still full of the detritus carried there by the storm, just to get out. By Christmas, only seven of the 65 surrounding homes would be occupied, and half of Sawyer’s immediate ...

Insulation will reduce the need for fans or air conditioning and help avoid overheating during more frequent summer heatwaves. Better insulation prepares homes ... insulated if possible. It's not ...

Storm, floods and fires have shifted the balance of risk and reward for many. Yet, even in the face of spiralling insurance and falling house values, our emotional and cultural ties have a high premiu ...

“As someone who promotes maximalism in so many ways, it’s taken me several decades of decorating my own homes as well ... a vacuum-packed summer duvet, a suitcase or winter coats. Wall space should ...