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 start of summer and learn the art of flower pressing, shop for new wallpaper designs and revamp your garden furniture with weatherproof textiles

4 buys DECORATIVE GLASS VASES • Showcase seasonal blooms in a vessel that is as pretty and eye-catching as its contents

News

Wall stories

Meet the maker • ELLEN MERCHANT, BOTANICAL PRINTS

ENJOY MOMENTS AL FRESCO • Transform your patio or terrace into the perfect spot to pause for a while and enjoy your seasonal garden in bloom with our pick of outdoor pieces

HOMES & DECORATING

In full bloom • As the garden reaches its floriferous peak, celebrate the romance of nature with this season’s beautiful botanical designs, from dainty trails to flamboyant florals and verdant leafy prints

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Unexpected find • A surprise viewing led to a lesson in patience, restoration and layered living, as Lucy and Simon transformed a characterful house into a soulful family retreat

Enduring elegance • With careful research and a sensitive hand, Fiona and Tim Peregrine restored a 250-year-old seaside home, honouring its Georgian past while preparing it for centuries to come

Character building • Following sensitive renovations and inspired updates, this 16th-century cottage became a comfortable family home for Vlada Barratt and Andrea Bragoli

Nature’s bounty • Room schemes inspired by the great outdoors have a grounding, calming quality, as demonstrated in the country home of Caryn Hibbert, founder and owner of the environmentally conscious Cotswold Thyme hotel

Sorbet Living • As Sorbet Living celebrates the opening of its first shop, enjoy an exclusive offer in-store or online on its range of beautiful homeware, from ceramics, cushions and linens to bath luxuries

DESIGN & RENOVATION

A fine vintage • In redesigning an inefficient extension, Anna Hope sought to create a spacious family kitchen that both honours her home’s history and embodies her love of decorative antiques

All in the details • Soften the hard edges of kitchen design with these dainty and decorative touches that imbue the space with soul without restricting functionality

Out of office • If a dedicated study is more of a pipe dream than a reality, then look to these multifunctional workstations, which prove a productive work-from-home set-up is still within reach

ROOM ESSENTIALS • Bring a little colour and character to your home office space, no matter its situation or set-up, with these versatile buys

PERIOD LIVING • Beautiful homes at your fingertips

House journal

On the surface • Original wall or floor tiles are practical, characterful and treasured features of older homes, so learn how to restore, repair or replace them, and when it’s time to call in the experts

GARDENS & LIFESTYLE

City oasis • Waiting to be discovered, this secret Oxford garden is like a magical theatre set where topiary takes the lead role, supported by a strong cast of trees, shrubs and wild and cultivated blooms that add pockets of colour and texture against the verdant...