Let your home do the talking with these trendy additions    

Favourite buildings and design heroes were all on the table, and more 

Enlisting the right team overhauled this 300-year-old home for a 21st-century family

The 16th-century Kilmartin Castle in Argyll has been restored by this enterprising couple, who have filled it with treasures from their world travels and turned it into a boutique B&B

Painting Edinburgh’s Georgian splendour is far from an exercise in rose-tinted nostalgia for watercolour artist Hugh Buchanan

The wildlife and nature of rural Aberdeenshire provide ideal inspiration for this Scottish painter

A splendid new studio complex in Edinburgh adds to the capital’s growing portfolio of cool and creative artist spaces

A clever blend of all the good things in life can be found at this colourful and stylish home from home in Perthshire

Norman Gilbert’s twin passions, for drawing and painting and for his wife and family, are celebrated in a new show in Fife this spring, with the 92-year-old artist showing no signs of slowing down

Unconventional colour choices and dramatic decoration have combined to produce a home that is deliciously different