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The 10 best Aztec looks for your home – in picturesAztec style is big news this summer – here’s our pick of the best pieces -
Spring cleaning the old-fashioned wayAre natural cleaning methods a match for chemical products? We tried five home remedies to see how they scrubbed up
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Kitchen gadgets review: the Selfie Toaster – ‘a boasty-toasty aberration’Now you can make toasten images of yourself and eat them for breakfast. The end times are here -
Fish by post and a sockalypse: my month living on subscriptionsYou can now set up a regular order for everything from cheese toasties and ice-cream to tea and tampons. But can you give up daily shopping and survive by signing up for deliveries?
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Manhattan makeoverWhat’s black, white and red all over? The New York apartment of artist Yuko Shimizu. Candice Pires takes a look
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The gentleman of the Daily Mirror who found it necessary to drink a great deal of milk before his weekly lunches with Kingsley AmisCharles Lyte, the journalist who blossomed as a gardening writer
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Surreal estate: add some sparkle to this diamond in the roughOriginally a jewellery workshop in London’s Hatton Garden, this one-bedroom house is spread over three storeys and has a roof terrace
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Homes around £150,000 – in picturesThese smallish but beautiful properties include a cottage with Glastonbury festival on its doorstep, and an Italian Alpine retreat an hour from Nice
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Homes for less than £250,000 – in picturesFrom a cottage in Kent to a pad in Putney, this is what you can get if you happen to have a quarter of a million pounds to spend
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Great Scott! A brewery that's worth exploring – in picturesHop in for a pint of polar history in this converted family home, once a brewery run and lived in by the parents of Scott of the Antarctic
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Homes for surfers – in picturesPerfect houses for those who love a spot by the sea, from the sandy beaches of Devon to the volcanic shores of Sicily
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The 15 best natural items for your home – in picturesRustic, raw and home-spun – no, it’s not the latest from the independent design studios, but the high street’s spring interiors collections
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Let’s move to Leigh-on-Sea: ‘What a difference 15 years makes’It was Let’s move to’s first visit, in 2001, and it was to be the Next Big Thing – or so I thought
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Let’s move to South Norwood and Thornton Heath, south LondonHere it is, a huge, humdrum wodge of the city, with its unreconstructed caffs and kebab spots
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Let’s move to the Marches: ‘A magical patch straight out of Tolkien’It’s both off and under the radar, on the way to nowhere in particular. Sounds like bliss
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Let’s move to Northumberland: for soft sand and craggy castlesNot even dark skies can dim the delights of Amble, Alnmouth and Warkworth
Homes: a radical Oxfordshire house