Doing up your dream house: House Detective
Richard Morriss got into historic building consultancy by accident, but found it is a rewarding job which sometimes throws up more questions than answers.
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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Doing up your dream house: Joinery Manager
Mary Miers meets a firm who are extremely good with timber: if it can be made with wood, they can do it, she finds.
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Trade Secrets: Stained Glass Painter
Advice on restoring stained glass windows
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Doing up your dream house: Marble Carver
A chimneypiece is the soul of a room – something to bear in mind when doing up your dream home
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Doing up your dream house: Window Maker
Don't listen to the builders who want to replace your wooden windows with plastic - instead talk to a man who makes wonderful period windows which can bring your building alive.
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Doing up your dream house: Tuckpointer
Tuckpointing specialist Dave Fovargue talks about the fine art of imitating gauged brickwork
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Doing up your dream house: Metalwork Conservator
There is more than one might think to becoming an expert metal conservator, but the work is varied and rewarding.
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Doing up your dream house: Thatcher
All the buzzwords of today apply when it comes to thatch: it's sustainable, eco-friendly and practical which could explain why it's on the rise again
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Doing up your dream house: Decorative painter
Our new series, Trade Secrets, begins with a profile of John Sutcliffe, Decorative Painter by trade.
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Path to Perfect Paving
Using gravel correctly can really lead you somewhere, observes Ptolemy Dean
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Importing plants
There are lots of regulations about taking plants between countries so Mrs Danvers recommends buying packets of seeds instead
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Christmas Tips from Mrs Danvers
From innovative ways of hanging your Christmas cards, to grown up Christmas decorations, Mrs Danvers hurdles some potential of the potential style obstacles that challenge many at this time of year. Those in favour of a dashing and flashing Father Christmas should not read on...
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Sandy Mitchell: Getting the tree surgeon in
It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing, fears Sandy Mitchell
