Period Living

Period Living is Britain's best-selling period homes magazine, offering inspiration, ideas and advice on all aspects of owning an older property. Discover beautiful real homes and gardens to inspire you, insight into the latest decorating trends and interior products that work with a traditional property, guidance from experts on maintaining and improving your home, and lifestyle features with a nostalgic focus. If you appreciate the timeless elegance and original character of old homes updated for modern life, Period Living is the magazine for you.

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Period Living

The journal • This month, prolong the summer holiday feel with coastal-inspired designs, make seaweed pressings, and learn how to master the art of painting with watercolours

Turn the tide • Add laidback coastal style to interiors with some well considered accessories featuring nautical stripes and marine motifs

HOMES & DECORATING

Sail away • Combine myriad ocean blues, organic textures and subtle coastal-inspired prints to create timeless spaces that capture the calming beauty of the seaside

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Fresh ideas • Hayley and Craig Morris have transformed their beautiful Arts and Crafts home by introducing a simple decorating scheme that lets the character of the house shine

Light fantastic • A 1920s cabin became an idyllic weekend retreat for Atlanta Bartlett and Dave Coote, who renovated it in their signature pale and interesting style and filled it with salvaged and vintage finds

Shore thing • Swapping city for coast, Skye O’Neill and Jamie Corner have created a peaceful retreat in the quaint town of Whitstable

Sheer delight • As well as offering privacy from prying eyes, modern sheer fabrics bring an airy elegance to interior schemes and imbue them with additional sophistication

To dine for • Whether you are looking for a cosy area for family meals or want to dress your dining room to impress, take inspiration from these delectable spaces

DESIGN & RENOVATION

Reclaimed wonder • Creating a kitchen on a budget doesn’t mean you have to compromise, as Alison and Gareth Bates proved with their beautiful pre-loved cabinetry

Tactile finish • Create a sensory experience throughout your kitchen by layering different textures and materials for a well-considered space that is brimming with personality

House journal

Expert panel • Traditionally used as a way to insulate a room, embrace the decorative potential of wall panelling to add character to any interior

Warming up • Whether you choose to build your own or buy a ready-made design, enjoy evenings in the garden even as the mercury drops with a cosy firepit

Shine a light • Extend the enjoyment of summer evenings alfresco by dressing your garden with a mix of decorative and functional outdoor illumination

Go with the grain • Natural wood, painted or left to develop a pleasing patina, is a material of choice for outdoor areas of period homes, but treat and maintain it with care

Marvellous maples • With their beautiful and distinctive foliage, acers are a wonderful addition to any garden or patio area and offer colour and interest through the seasons

GARDENS & LIFESTYLE

Working in harmony • Designed by artist TJ Maher to be sympathetic to the ambience already present, Patthana Garden in County Wicklow exudes tranquillity with a delicately exotic feel

LATE SUMMER PARTY • As the first flush of summer flowers fade, a cohort of scintillating perennials is ready to burst on the scene and inject colour into flagging borders

DIARY OF THE Head gardener • As the opera’s 90th anniversary season draws to a close, Glyndebourne’s head...