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The bedroom that felt perfectly cosy in January can feel stuffy and cluttered by July. Heavy winter bedding, closed-up storage, dark colours that soaked up warmth all winter, none of it does you any favours once the nights get warmer and sleep gets harder to come by. The good news is that refreshing a bedroom for summer doesn't mean a full redec...

Homework at the kitchen table, surrounded by dinner smells and someone else's phone call, isn't anyone's idea of focus. Children concentrate better when they have a space that's clearly, consistently theirs for studying, even if that space is just a desk in the corner of a bedroom. The good news is that a genuinely effective study space isn't ab...

Sofas don't usually announce their retirement. There's no single dramatic moment, just a slow accumulation of small annoyances, a dip here, a creak there, until one day you notice you've been avoiding your own sofa. Because the decline is gradual, it's easy to live with a sofa well past the point it's actually serving you. Here are six clear, pr...