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Spring cleaning tends to focus on windows, skirting boards, and the inside of the oven, while the sofa, the piece that sees more daily use than almost anything else in the house, gets a quick plump of the cushions and not much else. It deserves better, and with the right approach it's genuinely easy to bring a fabric sofa back to looking its bes...

Scatter cushions are the cheapest, quickest way to change how a sofa feels and one of the most underused. A tired sofa, or even a brand new one that feels a bit flat, can be transformed for the price of two or three covers, no new furniture required. The trick is knowing a few simple rules: how many to use, which textures to combine, and how to ...

A sideboard is one of the quietest workhorses in a home. It swallows the plates you only use at Christmas, the tablecloths, the odd bottle of wine, and the remote controls that otherwise colonise the coffee table, all while giving a room a proper surface to display something nice on top. Get the wrong one, though, and it's either hopelessly smal...