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  • A textured dividing wall leads into a bedroom with a green-lit wall and checkered bedspread

    Tiny basement turned ‘exuberant’ apartment wins interior prize at Australia’s National Architecture awards

    With a footprint of less than 40 sq metres, the Melbourne project required careful planning – and some spatial trickery
  • Woman with long hair in white blouse puts crockery to wash in the dishwasher at home

    In test for Australia’s best dishwasher detergent, tablets triumph and powders flounder

  • Resonance lamp

    An ‘impossible build’ and a lamp to calm the senses: Australia’s Good Design awards 2026 – in pictures

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  • six people gathered round a table laden with food

    The dreadful decline of hosting at home: ‘I feel shame any time a friend comes over’

  • View of a garden shed through a kitchen window

    A shedload of trouble for the neighbours

  • A cartoon of two snails munching on letters

    Snail ate your mail? Why gastropods munch paper – and how to stop them

    In wet weather, garden snails can seek shelter in letterboxes – and find a feast there waiting for them
  • A group of cacti in pots on a sideboard

    Houseplant hacks: should plants rest in the dark over winter ?

  • The Good Life: Away From it All. Felicity Kendal as Barbara Good. And a goat. orgb_p13_1505pfv

    Allotmentcore: why everyone is dressing like Barbara in The Good Life

  • An African man tending to flowers and plants in a lush garden.

    ‘They paved paradise’: fighting back over the loss of green spaces in Cameroon’s capital

  • Jane Brown at the Woodstock literary festival, Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire, when her book on Capability Brown was published in 2011.

    Jane Brown obituary

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Smarter Homes, Lower Bills

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    Welcome to the smart home – how does yours compare?

  • Collage of pictures of the Fellows and their smart tech

    ‘How we cut our annual energy bills from £2,000 to £100’

  • Young woman adjusting lighting and room temperature with smart home system. Intelligent home security system. Smart living concept.

    Myth buster: why heat pumps and solar panels are more accessible than ever

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    Smart, standard or fixed? The new era of energy tariffs, explained

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  • Aerial view of Balam Balam Place, with a geometric patterned building and historic house

    Apartments, community centres and a pink outdoor toilet: Australia’s 2026 National Architecture award winners – in pictures

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  • A white armchair sits before a bay window with green blinds, in a moody Hackney interior

    Homes with striking interiors for sale in England – in pictures

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  • Image of a striped outdoor chair in a leafy backyard garden area

    From urban rooftops to working cattle farms: Australia’s best home gardens – in pictures

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  • A 82-metre glass tower block which is the tallest building in Newcastle surrounded by a green space.

    Homes for sale in landmark towers in England and Scotland – in pictures

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