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, celebrate the changing season with spring-inspired prints, refresh your bed with new linens, treat yourself to decorative tableware, and learn how to grow a cutting garden

Meet the maker SUSAN BEECH, A PETAL UNFOLDS

POTTERING ABOUT • Make light work of spring and summer gardening jobs, from potting on and planting out, to pruning, sowing and snipping, with these stylish essentials

HOMES & DECORATING

Bluebell & buttercup • Soothing yet joyful, warm yet cool, the complementary combination of yellow and blue is having a moment and is sure to put a spring in your step

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Meeting in the middle • Finding the perfect home and starting a new life back in the English countryside was a challenge, but one Maddie and Sam O’Neill were determined to accept the English countryside was a challenge, but one Maddie and Sam O’Neill were determined to accept

Romancing the home • Callieanne and Sam Major have breathed new life into a Victorian property in Lincolnshire, transforming it into a welcoming family house filled with colour, texture and timeless charm

Making light work • Louise and Alex Pope raised the ceilings and added extra windows to turn two 18th-century cottages and a school hall into a bright and spacious family home

Natural selection • The London home of Butter Wakefield is as colourful and layered as her award-winning garden designs, and every space brims with pattern and personality

READERS’ HOMES

Take to your seat • From fillings, frames and fabrics to size and silhouettes, explore the different options and combinations to ensure quality and optimum comfort when purchasing upholstery

Enjoy 20% off* at SOPHIE ALLPORT • Welcome a little seasonal joy into your home with the latest homeware collections featuring charming illustrations, made-to-order furniture and lighting from Sophie Allport

DESIGN & RENOVATION

All in the detail • With a handful of clever ideas, Katie and Nick Sanderson’s new kitchen is perfect for family life, work and entertaining

Orderly fashion • Maximise the storage space and prioritise kitchen organisation with these clever features that ensure that everything has a home

Chance of showers • Whether you are drawn to practical, immersive wet rooms or idyllic spa-like enclosures, rethink the showering set-up and elevate your bathroom design with these ideas

ROOM ESSENTIALS • From busy family wet rooms that need a refresh to en suites that are calling for a touch of luxury, elevate your shower space with these buys

House journal

In the frame • Improve your period home’s energy-efficiency, security and kerb appeal with windows that balance heritage style with the benefits of modern technology

Break down barriers • There are several important factors to consider before you take a sledgehammer to internal walls in a bid to create more open-plan and flowing living spaces, particularly in period homes

GARDENS & LIFESTYLE

It’s showtime • Marysa Norris has put her own stamp on her Suffolk garden with seasonal and thematic highlights, from a...