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.

Period Living

Editor’s Letter

The journal • This month, bring the outside in with nature-inspired prints and colour palettes, try your hand at creating your own natural dyes, and shop for beautiful and versatile blankets

3 buys BOLD BLANKETS • Bright and beautiful, these super-soft designs will add cheer to your home, or a spring picnic

Meet the maker

COTTAGE CHARM • Dress your table with colourful and floral accessories for a romantically nostalgic setting

HOMES & DECORATING

New pattern stories • We round up the latest looks in fabrics, wallpapers and tiles, from leafy botanical prints to bold stripes and classic chequerboard designs, perfectly timed for a seasonal refresh

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Opposites attract • Moving to a house just across the road, in a neighbourhood she loves, Lola Swift created a colourful family home that blends modern elegance with vintage charm

Perfect Symmetry • Lara and James Barton gave a disused building a new lease of life, extending it and embracing colour and pattern in every room

Bright ideas • Becky Rossetto took her time to research a variety of heritage colours and furnishings that would work together beautifully in her renovated family home

Tiny triumph • While it is petite in size, Kevin Oliver’s London flat is certainly not short on creative combinations of pattern and colour

If walls could talk • Take inspiration from the age-old design device of using decorative painting and murals to create a beautiful setting and to personalise a home with the passions and stories of those who live there

Prints charming • Elevate your interiors with creative uses of patterns, from drawing the eye towards overlooked spaces to making a bold statement with intricate designs

DESIGN & RENOVATION

In the balance • Overcoming limited space and doing away with an awkward layout, Laura and Marcus Moore created a family kitchen filled with elegant touches

Little luxuries • Take your kitchen design to the next level with these indulgent finishing touches that will raise the standard from functional to fabulous

Beauty & the feast • The dining area in an open-plan kitchen can sometimes feel tacked onto the space – ensure that it gets the attention it deserves with these design ideas

ROOM ESSENTIALS • Furnish, accessorize and complete your kitchen-diner with these buys

House journal

On the WALL • Favoured as a hardwearing and hygienic way to protect walls, tiles also have abundant decorative potential. From classic metro designs and reclaimed pieces taken straight from history to eye-catching stripes, distinctive Delfts and statement mosaics, we explore the myriad ways they can embellish and add interest to the hardest working rooms of the home

Step back in time • They come with their ups and downs, but it’s worth rising to the challenge of repairing, maintaining or, where necessary, replacing original staircases

Shades of lilac • Plant these striking lollipop trees or different shrub varieties for clouds of fragrant flowers in hues of blue, white and pink

GARDENS & LIFESTYLE

A GARDEN REBORN •...