Room by room
Practical guides to improving, furnishing and finishing a home — kitchens and interiors, gardens and outdoor rooms, keeping the place safe, and the small decisions that make a room work.
Doors and drawer fronts look dated or damaged while the cabinet boxes are still sound If the doors are chipped, warped, or simply the wrong color and the boxes underneath are square,…
Small living room or oversized furniture A living room that feels cramped usually isn't small — it's furnished with pieces sized for…
Small living room or oversized furniture A room reads cramped when the furniture inside it is scaled for a bigger footprint, not…
Small living room or oversized furniture A living room that feels tight almost always has one of two causes: the furniture is…
A cottage plot gets a finished look only after the necessary design elements are included - without decorative details, the territory adjacent…
Free tool · runs in your browser
Put in the size of the room and how many coats you want, and it works out how much paint to buy — with the doors and windows taken off, and rounded up to whole tins with a little spare.
Open the calculatorWhat you’ll get
Corrections & suggestions
Products change, and what works in a small flat does not always work in an old house. If a guide is out of date, or there is a room or a job you would like us to write up, the editorial team would like to hear about it.
