A down-at-heel townhouse now sparkles with life, thanks to a colour-led renovation that has brought personality to every room.

Bert & May’s founder Lee Thornley has elevated an ‘average’ home in York into a Scandi-inspired, timber-clad haven. 

The designer’s work is all about dazzling colour paired with innovative patterns, as her home beautifully demonstrates

Friendly and welcoming, with sublime views and some of the best food on the west coast: this Port Appin institution has it all

The French maker has a reputation for excellence in both design and craftsmanship

The best-dressed bookcases this season will be wearing brightly coloured and super-stylish books on the biggest names in fashion

When Wendy Killin and John McGonagle decided the time had come to give up apartment living, they did so in some style, swapping their flat in Glasgow’s west end for a grand two-storey sandstone villa on the city’s southside, replete with original Victorian features and mature gardens. Even the driveway had pillars.

Scottish cashmere is reputed to be among the very best you can get, but what makes it so special? After all, most of the world’s cashmere starts off from the same place – the fine, soft hair of goats tended by nomadic herdsmen in Mongolia.

A south-facing hillside on the shores of beautiful Loch Duich in Lochalsh would be many people’s dream plot. It certainly seemed so to outdoors-loving couple Peter and Neepa Atkinson when they were searching for a site on which to build a home.

The vintage stores, independent retailers and quirky businesses that are breathing life into the Merchants’ Quarter of Kirkcaldy High Street have a new neighbour: Phil+Sophy.