Decorating Advice

These are the seven most-liked new images from our 2024 Instagram feed, packed with ideas to steal for your own interiors in 2025 and beyond

Sometimes you need to take a good, hard look at how you live before you embark on a renovation. We asked interior designers for the crucial questions they ask their clients that you should definitely ask yourself

Forget starting with art or a beautiful rug, the key to an appealing room scheme is to make it feel evolved

A trim is the finishing touch that takes a scheme from good to great

Often narrow and lacking in any natural light, these spaces (in between the ‘front room’ and the kitchen at the back), have fallen foul of our love of extensions. We asked designers how to ensure they can still be useful and beautiful to boot

Drenched in gold and precious stones, the glorious architectural style of the Byzantines is the kind of maximalism we want to emulate right now

The value of shopping on our travels, finding pieces with provenance, and holding on to what we inherit

Hello moiré and alabaster, nice to see you again

Interior designers are often called upon to create clever solutions for small spaces, and these are our favourites that you can copy at home with easy to buy pieces

Sofa beds might suffer from a bad reputation but they can be incredibly useful furnishings in houses both small and large. Here, we consult top interior designers to discover what it takes to take the furnishing from functional to luxurious.

Always the empath, our agony aunt Fiona talks cleaning, compromise and control

Books, candles, flowers. These are the ingredients that make up the perfect coffee table. Just don't forget space for the coffee.

From frilly cushions to Staffordshire pottery – are we addicted to looking back?

Vast open plan spaces can be refreshingly airy, but sometimes we need a sense of transitioning between zones to make us feel more comfortable. Here's how to do it right without building any walls…

Decorator Benedict Foley on how creating a story for your interiors can transform your approach to decorating

‘Art for Art’s sake' was the battle cry that transformed Victorian art and design in the late 19th century. Many of the Aesthetic movements credos are still highly relevant to the way we decorate now – Skylar Pinchal Coysh explores why

We consider the good, the bad and the ugly

We look at how interior designers have tackled awkward attic spaces and present the best ideas to steal

Just because you don't have direct sunlight doesn't mean you can't decorate well 

A big chunk of metal affixed to the wall would rarely be high up on any designer’s wish list – so how to incorporate a radiator into an interior with taste and panache?