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The Ball Freshtech jam & jelly maker: ‘Beyoncé was right – I simply am not ready for this jelly’This automatic jam machine claims to take the heat out of fruit preservation. It gives me a tension headache -
Don't judge a home from the outsideIt may look unimpressive from the street, but this ex-council house is anything but ordinary. By Katie Forster
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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 -
Homes: a radical Oxfordshire houseA radical 70s house in the woods near Oxford was once a place of political debate, finds Katie Forster
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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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Learning to grow: the American bonsai master who starved for knowledgeAfter studying bonsai in Japan for two years, Ryan Neil returned to the US to create a new art form and eventually open a school and nursery to teach others
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Shed of the Year 2016 – in picturesSome of the best entries for Cuprinol’s Shed of the Year 2016 competition
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City-centre homes – in picturesFrom a duplex in Birmingham’s Jewellery Quarter to an Upper West Side Manhattan apartment, these properties put you at the heart of the action
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Thousands of crocheted poppies on display at Chelsea flower show – videoSome 300,000 handmade poppies are on display at the Chelsea Flower Show, in honour of the armed forces
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Chelsea flower show preview – in picturesFor five days in May, the grounds of the Royal Hospital Chelsea will, once again, be transformed into the world’s greatest flower show. The show has been held there every year since 1913, apart from gaps during the two world wars
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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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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
Home is where the toxins are – the hidden poisons we live with