How to prepare your home for Christmas entertaining
Interior designer Nina Campbell shares her thoughts on preparing for the festive season.
Housekeeping tips
Top tips and trade secrets to help you shine up and straighten every space in your home.
We share the right way to wash windows, keep dog hairs to a minimum, and other preventative strategies for keeping your country house in tip-top shape.
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Differentiating between Gin cocktails
Mrs Danvers tackles housekeeping questions
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How to prepare your house for winter
As winter approaches, experts advise that preventative measures are crucial for our houses to weather hard winters
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Ten house tips for the winter
Now is the time to put your house in ship-shape for the winter months ahead. Chartered surveyor Tom Grillo shares his ten top tips
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Choosing an interior designer
Finding the right skilled interior designer for your period property requires some dedication; in particular you need to make sure you share the same vision
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Maintenance tips for Victorian houses
There are a number of aspects to look out for when viewing or indeed owning a Victorian house
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Best cooking pans
Mrs Danvers suggests the best makes of pots and cooking pans to hunt down when shopping for a special friend's wedding present
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How to save old floorboards
Lots of care and elbow grease can help old floorboards gleam again
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Buying bellows
Mrs Danvers recommends where to find a new or antique pair of bellows
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Creating a library
Mrs Danvers gives advice on how to create a library in a newly acquired country house
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Removing chocolate stains
Mrs Danvers tackles readers' household queries: this week's are chocolate stains on a linen suit and screen doors
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Tips on hosting parties
Mrs Danvers comes to the rescue of two readers who have parties looming and need advice on arranging transport and hiring cutlery
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Painting floorboards white
Achieving that New England feeling can be done one of two ways, our housekeeping and decorating expert explains the methods
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Treating coffee stains
Mrs Danvers recommends the best way to tackle coffee stains on rattan and wickerwork
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Stained-glass maker
Mary Miers talks to some experts at stained-glass making and restoration
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Dream house: Pargeter
Ornamental plasterwork often found on the outside of houses (and ceilings) in East Anglia is known as pargeting
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Black blotting paper
Mrs Danvers explains where to find black blotting paper and how to go about commissioning a vase
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Traditional upholsterer guide
Tips and advice on how to approach the reupholstering of a well loved piece of furniture
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Dream house: lime-mortar worker
Mary Miers meets a lime-mortar worker who is an expert in his field...
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Ideas for empty barns
Mrs Danvers suggests how to make good use of empty barns
