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, explore the beauty of heritage design, shop our edit of colourful quilts, introduce an earthy autumn palette into your home, and discover the traditional craft of brush making

Meet the maker

BRIGHT SPARKS • Bring instant atmosphere to a dinner table by lighting beautiful candles, and strike up the mood with pretty match pots or boxes

HOMES & DECORATING

New season looks • From artisan-inspired florals and beautiful berry tones to chic chevron designs, discover the latest interior trends, fabrics and wallpapers

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Happy Returns • Having lived and worked all over the globe, Lisa and Chris Brett are back in Bath and have finished restoring their historic home, surrounded by mementoes of their travels

Timeless vision • Classic style and elegance transformed Laura and Jon Cox’s dated Tudor manor house into a comfortable and welcoming family home

A house full of treasures • After years of admiring it from afar, Jane Andrews and Graham Ellis finally made their dream Victorian home their own, restoring its character while adapting it for family life and filling it with vintage and antique finds and art

The perfect country escape • Irene Molodtsov and her family moved out of the city to restore a historic Cotswold manor house and are enjoying country life, inside and out

DESIGN & RENOVATION

Grey matter • Lorna and Graham Scott broke all the rules by choosing dark-painted units for their small, low-ceilinged kitchen – but they’ve made it work beautifully

Rustic dream • No matter whether you live in a busy town or rural idyll, the lived-in charm of a country kitchen will be sure to bring a little pastoral magic into your home

Set to impress • There is more to a dining room than just having a table and chairs; be inspired by these design ideas and create a space where guests will want to linger long after dinner is served

House journal

Walk this way • Carpet brings warmth and comfort underfoot, and with so many materials, weights and underlay options available, it is simply a matter of finding the right fit for your space

Smooth landing • Often overlooked, these transitional spaces have so much more potential than just being a corridor between rooms. Be inspired to transform them into somewhere worth pausing

ROOM ESSENTIALS • Don’t overlook your landing’s decorative potential; a few well-chosen pieces, plus plenty of prints and patterns, are guaranteed to elevate the space

Living with nature • Owners of old houses might find themselves sharing their surroundings with legally protected birds and animals, as well as rare or invasive plant species. Here’s how to relieve the impact

GARDENS & LIFESTYLE

A shared sanctuary • Alison Jenkins has created her beautiful Somerset garden to explore new ways of gardening, living in balance with nature, and as a communal space for learning

Foraging for the future • Saving seed from flowers in your garden is time well spent – a free and exciting method of increasing and enjoying your...