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The 10 best outdoor chairs – in picturesHead to the garden with these hardy outdoor chairs (brolly optional) -
What is it like to flat-share in your 40s, 50s and 60s?More middle-aged people are renting rooms in shared properties. But living with tenants half your age can have its pros and cons …
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Billy bookcases and the definitive meatball – inside the new Ikea museumThe Swedish flatpack goliath has launched a permanent exhibition celebrating its history. What does it say about the evolution of our homes? -
The fine art of living in a gallery homeDeep in the West Country, a converted mill now doubles as an exhibition space and a family home. By Jo Leevers
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Close to home: furniture designers go back to their rootsA new generation of artisans is turning to local materials to make sustainable artefacts with strong regional identities
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Hampton Court Palace flower show to highlight plight of refugeesConceptual garden featuring barbed wire fence and items collected from beaches of Greek islands will be exhibited at event
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It's game, set and match for these homes with tennis courts – in picturesServe up an ace in these properties from Staffordshire to Pembrokeshire
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A cold war torpedo testing site in Bushy Park – in picturesUnderwater missiles were put through their paces at the facility, which is now a six-bedroom modern mansion
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Homes for great barbecues – in picturesEnjoy al fresco dining from Cowes to Dallas, via Mallorca and Essex, with these great properties
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Homes in need of renovation – in picturesFrom a posh block of flats to a Cotswold farmhouse, all these properties need bringing up to date
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Lakeside homes – in picturesDip your toe into these waterside properties from Snowdonia to Lombardy
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Let’s move to Paisley, Renfrewshire: the tumbleweed townMonuments fit for a king, columns, pediments, spires and turrets … but where are the people, asks Tom Dyckhoff
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Let’s move to Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire: it’s enemy territoryThis is mostly a land where Boris Johnson is default
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Let’s move to Lynton and Lynmouth, north Devon: stout legs requiredIt’s a dramatic landscape, all vertiginous drops and corniche drives along cliff tops
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Let’s move to Shrewsbury, Shropshire: ‘These days, it’s a bit left behind’I’d move there in a heartbeat if – sad face – it wasn’t so far from the sea
If I lived in that house: my addiction to the fantasy of online real estate