Hannah Newton

You can spot Tabby Booth’s house from the top deck of the No 4 bus: her pink 1970s pebbledash bungalow stands as a beacon to creativity among the rolling green hills of south Cornwall, a far cry from her former home, the Lady Rose, a party boat on Regent’s Canal, north London.

After ten years living on boats, the artists and gallery owners Booth, 35, and her husband, James “Hessy” Heslip, also 35, upped sticks and moved to the southwest in search of a garden big enough to accommodate Hessy’s ...

How to transform your living space for the new year – and create a unique, artisan-style look, without spending on "fast furniture".

The new year offers a fresh start, a blank page for reinvention, a moment to refresh mentally and physically – and to reconsider and revitalise our interior spaces. In a world where fast-changing trends and relentless newness are celebrated, many of us have turned to "fast furniture" – factory-made, poor quality – to create an instantaneous new look at home. B...

As Pantone announces its colour of 2026, a vanilla off-white, here's more on the reasoning behind the choice – and what other trending colours can help you achieve greater domestic bliss.
Pantone has spoken – and the colour of the year 2026 is… white. Or more specifically, Cloud Dancer, a vanilla-whipped, fluffy off-white that appears less like a colour trend and more like the inside of a marshmallow. But can an achromatic shade capture the global mood? Stephen Westland, professor of colour s...

Typically transformed from the kind of material you might expect to find at refuse sites – plastic bags, scrap metal and even loo-roll tubes and used coffee pods – the textile artist Debra Rapoport’s rambunctious headgear is surely king among all makeshift millinery. But interior design is another feather in her cap, as the flat she shares with her husband in New York, filled to the brim with further fascinator fodder, attests
‘It’s my personal statement. I don’t care if it’s fashionable. I d...

Modernism, colour drenching — even Henry VIII; whatever your inspiration, use it to create a radical sculptural centrepiece

Suffused with saturated hues from lemon to pistachio, the British fashion designer crafts her London townhouse as a glamorous, grown-up playground where Hollywood Regency meets 1980s vibes
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Layered in joyful tones, Olivia Von Halle celebrates the art of immersive colour with a distinctly glamorous edge in her Lon...

While feasting at a 50th birthday dinner in north London, the landscape designer Joanne Bernstein found herself seated beside the architect Patrick Lynch — a stroke of luck that sparked an immediate connection. They talked all through dinner. Not long before, Bernstein — an avowed Londoner — suffered the unexpected loss of her mother. Inheriting a sum of money, she resolved to create a home and garden in the countryside, somewhere within reach of the city, and began her search. That search le...

Fancy pantry: the return of ‘below-stairs’ kitchen essentials
Furniture and tools that celebrate slow cooking as well as preservation and pickling processes are entering a new era

It took more than five years to design, but the result is a remarkable house filled with innovative twists
We don’t want it to be like an aquarium that you stare into,” says Pontus Björkman of his pine-clad, tar-treated home on the outskirts of Stockholm. “If you pass our house on the street, you will see absolutely nothing, and we like it like that.”
Just metres from the Baltic Sea, overlooking the city, it takes five minutes for Pontus, brand manager at Swedish fashion brand Acne Studios, a...

Furniture designers Christopher and Nicola Cox bring bespoke touches to an Edwardian townhouse
When Christopher Cox was 17, he asked his parents for a welding kit. “I collected scrap metal and began experimenting, making metal stick to metal. The fact that you couldn’t get it apart was really exciting.”
Cox comes from a family of makers, restorers and antique dealers. His mother is a painter, his brother a furniture designer, his father deals in medieval carvings, his grandfather traded in Eu...

Jessica Light is keeping the 15th-century French art of passementerie alive, adding beads and bleach to braids of silk or horsehair

We are rounding Gangxid Kun (known in English as Cape St James) at the very bottom of Haida Gwaii, an archipelago of about 150 remote islands and over 1,800 islets, 62 miles off the vast northwest coastline of British Columbia. The islands are on the edge of a continental shelf; just below the waters a 2,800m submarine cliff falls away, while above the immense reaches of the Pacific Ocean stretch out until Haida Gwaii brushes up against Antarctica.
This is Canada’s windiest region, prone to g...

The musician on her love of cheesy R&B, hating karaoke ‘with a fiery passion’, and the people who have sex to her sister Norah Jones’s music

Step aboard a motorboat in America’s Midwest where 70s style interiors create a nostalgic, retro retreat.

Cleopatra was said to have entertained her lovers aboard a luxurious houseboat on the river Nile. Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz lived on one for some 25 years; these vessels are enshrined in contemporary Arabic literature and history.

At the height of the pandemic in 2021, Ulli Heckmann and his partner Nienke took on the challenge of transforming a two-floor apartment in Delfshaven, Rotterdam, into a family home for themselves and their four-year-old son Billie.
Overlooking the Schie waterway, the apartment had potential but needed a complete overhaul. 'It took us two years to renovate because we couldn’t find contractors, so we did it ourselves,' says Ulli. He and Nienke tackled plumbing, lime plastering, furniture design...