Restoration
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How to create vintage paint effects
Want to know how to create vintage paint effects? From distressing to gilding, check out these paint effects to transform your old furniture in a few simple steps...
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Real Home: Bake Off's Helena shows us round her Victorian villa
Bake Off star Helena Garcia's pretty Victorian home started life as a convent building, but there’s little trace of that to be found in its sumptuous French boudoir-style décor
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Real home: restoring a Georgian ancestral home
A series of fortunate coincidences and a long-held, romantic dream, led Christopher Vane Percy back to his forgotten Georgian ancestral home
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Real Home: restoring a medieval home
Originally built in the 12th century, this Grade II* listed house in Kent is one of the oldest still standing in the region. The Osbornes have breathed new life into this home through their loving restoration
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Real home: a family apartment renovation in Brighton
Digging out the damp cellar beneath a ground-floor flat and taking time over the renovation process has added an extra level and family charm to Debbie Statham’s Victorian home
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Conserving a Cotswold cottage
Learn how one renovator has preserved the very best elements of his listed 14th century home, and created an enduring family legacy along with it
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An Edwardian home in Glasgow
The Dean family have created a beautiful family home in the heart of Glasgow. Their detached four bedroom Edwardian house was built in 1908 and boasts a colonial-style verandah, wood wall panelling and parquet flooring as well as a new kitchen extension
