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Apart from the pool, perhaps there are other aspects of furnishing your garden to deal with first. It's vital to plan the layout and make sure you don't end up with a 'soup' haphazard design, especially if you're expecting a crowd. Before you start...
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You know what's wrong with that wilting fern you've been trying to resurrect? Not enough water, or too much water, that's the usual response when Googling what's happening to your dying garden. So, how does one fix this? You should irrigate the...
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Gardening has come a long way. Back in the 1970s it was unheard of that a petal was out of place or a blade of grass untrimmed; a garden was taken very seriously and really was left for the professional gardeners. Every inch of the garden would be...
Publications
Once largely abandoned and populated solely by maintenance workers — occasionally the odd Hollywood action hero leaping from one to another — city rooftops have enjoyed a renaissance period of late; as outdoor space becomes more difficult to...
New York City
When an über-cool hospitality venue starts gaining the mass that comes with a growing reputation, it's usually the prelude to a stellar collapse. Scenesters will always be on the lookout for the next undiscovered gem, and when they start moving on...
London
The Royal Academy of Arts has recently reopened The Keeper's House in London's Mayfair; the Academy's social hub underwent a £6.5 million renovation to bring back the glory days, and rising to the challenge (under a fair bit of pressure) were...
Interiors
Smoke machines are rarely used to good effect. Wedding DJ; no. School disco; no. Nestled in the corner of a small room at New Dutch Design, during Milan Design Week; surprisingly, yes. Eindhoven Design Academy graduate Frederik Roijé had a...
Publications
My, how tree houses have grown up. Once the preserve of middle-class children (well mostly, you need a garden and a tree, for a start), now the quirky hotel alternative for the middle-class adventure traveller. You wouldn't have thought there...
New York
In the words of Rupert Brooke “...there's some corner of a foreign field that is forever England”, and while the quote is a gross misappropriation, taken out of context it does seem to sum up Crosby Street Hotel in New York, the first in what...
Amsterdam
Here's a place to warm the cockles of your heart on a cold November morning – Restaurant De Kas, Amsterdam, a re-purposed greenhouse that takes the concept of locally-sourced ingredients to another level. Originally part of the city's municipal...
Amsterdam
Whether you're being dragged around a seemingly endless mall by your better half, or you are doing the dragging, there comes a time on the spree of even the most devoted shopper when you have had enough, and the thought of the drive home sends you...
Chester
A lovely little city, Chester. The Romans founded it when they built a fort here, and the city walls that remain are some of the finest surviving examples in Britain. After that, a succession of important historical dynasties left their...
The Edit
A beautiful country house built in 1855 is the site for several modernist annexes that began at the end of the 1950s. Looking over the sea to Sweden on the coast of North Zeeland, Denmark, it sits amid fancy housing estates 30 kilometres north of...
Stuff Crush
It's almost 20 years since I walked toward the huge glowing orb of Olafur Eliasson's The Weather Project at the Tate Modern. That massive sun in a cavernous industrial setting was a remarkable sight for a young art fan, but more so a turning point...
City Notes
In a picturesque and quintessentially British village of South Petherton in Somerset lives a rather special restaurant. On a pretty high street, Holm is housed in a former bank built in honey-coloured hamstone (a coarse-grained limestone) with...
City Notes
Located in a small Hindu village on Bali's west coast, in an area largely untouched by tourism, LOST LINDENBERG is a new guest collective with eight elevated tower rooms in the middle of the jungle. A hidden retreat surrounded by temples, ruled by...
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The World Cup is in full swing, and as such, the fun and games are just beginning. Mr Play Sport has launched an exclusive World Cup predictor where if you correctly guess the winner of upcoming fixtures, you can bag yourself cashback on all...
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Do you ever feel like your lips are too small? Even if they're not small, many people yearn to get fuller-looking lips. If you want to make them appear larger but don't want to go through surgery or use injections, keep reading this post. Here, we...
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Informed healthcare professionals are better equipped to provide quality patient care. By staying up-to-date on the latest medical research and developments, healthcare professionals can make more informed decisions about patient treatment plans and...
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It's here, and it's weird. The Winter World Cup is upon us, and England vs USA is shaping up to be a barnstormer, even if it is a bit odd to be watching a World Cup in the freezing cold. We've put together a betting guide that's been vetted and...