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• Interiors: The kitchen diaries - After 12 years living with a kitchen whose cobbled-together charm could no longer make up for its gloomy impracticality, Rose Prince decided it was time for a new one. Here she describes its sometimes painful gestation. Photographs by Philip Sinden.
• Huf Haus: Leader of the flatpack - Once the site of mock-Tudor mediocrity, a leafy Surrey plot now vaunts the ultimate prefab - a Huf Haus customised to the hilt. By Dominic Bradbury. Photographs by Mark Luscombe-Whyte.
• Prefab property: Pod squad - The Huf Haus is just one of a burgeoning crop of 'instant' homes that take the prefab to a whole new level. Kiera Buckley-Jones and David Nicholls look at the options.
• Interiors: Changing room - A new interiors website is a godsend for armchair designers - or those who can't make up their minds. Rachel Jones uses mydeco.com to create one look on three different budgets
• Interiors: Sleeping beauties - Ensure you wake up feeling exquisitely refreshed by following Annabel Freyberg's guide to where to find the best bed frames, most luxurious mattresses and silkiest bedlinen.
• Bathrooms: Make a splash - Pull the plug on your bathroom preconceptions and embrace a future of wetrooms, black taps, and red and blue running water. By David Nicholls.
• Property advice: Need to know - What to expect from a surveyor.
• Bargain hunter - Our homes and interiors column brings you the very best that money can buy, for not much money at all. By Alison Cork.
• Property: Dubai here I come - Bright young things are building a life amid the glitzy malls, towers and beaches of a city on the up, says Anna Tyzack.
• Ask the expert: Property clinic - Building a wine 'cellar'; reviving old plans for new houses; calculating the value of a plot of land; and disclosing incentives on a newbuild flat.
• Property market: Word on the street - Negative equity is not so scary if you've planned ahead for it. By Edmund Conway.
• Village voice: Burgh Castle - The old ruin of Burgh Castle overshadows its newer neighbours. By Clive Aslet.
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• Why the smart money is on the sea - Head for the Sussex coast for Belgravia-style homes at bargain prices. Clive Aslet reports.
• Property in Suffolk: Secret lair of the British resistance - A country home in deepest Suffolk was at the heart of plans to combat a wartime Nazi invasion, reveals Caroline McGhie.
• Interiors: Sleeping beauties - Ensure you wake up feeling exquisitely refreshed by following Annabel Freyberg's guide to where to find the best bed frames, most luxurious mattresses and silkiest bedlinen.
• Bathrooms: Make a splash - Pull the plug on your bathroom preconceptions and embrace a future of wetrooms, black taps, and red and blue running water. By David Nicholls.
• Prefab property: Pod squad - The Huf Haus is just one of a burgeoning crop of 'instant' homes that take the prefab to a whole new level. Kiera Buckley-Jones and David Nicholls look at the options.
• Interiors: The kitchen diaries - After 12 years living with a kitchen whose cobbled-together charm could no longer make up for its gloomy impracticality, Rose Prince decided it was time for a new one. Here she describes its sometimes painful gestation. Photographs by Philip Sinden.
• Interiors: Changing room - A new interiors website is a godsend for armchair designers - or those who can't make up their minds. Rachel Jones uses mydeco.com to create one look on three different budgets
• Huf Haus: Leader of the flatpack - Once the site of mock-Tudor mediocrity, a leafy Surrey plot now vaunts the ultimate prefab - a Huf Haus customised to the hilt. By Dominic Bradbury. Photographs by Mark Luscombe-Whyte.
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• Eco homes: Your next move? Greenshift - Sarah Lonsdale meets those who are selling up to reduce their carbon footprint.
• Property in Kent: Why the French adore Kent - Sarah Rundell meets the movers who are swapping Provence for the hop gardens of Kent.
• Property in Devon: Rock 'n' roll rooms - Fred Redwood gets a backstage pass to the house where hits were made.
• Interiors: Beautiful bathrooms on a budget - IThere's an easier way than ripping everything out, says Paula Robinson.
• Property advice: On the level - Builder Jeff Howell gives it to you straight.
• Property in France: Heaven in a corner of Provence - A restored French estate enchants Anna Tyzack.
• University accommodation: student towns win top marks - Buying close to a university campus is a sound investment option if you do your homework, says Cherry Maslen.
• Property on the Isle of Wight: The Wight stuff - It is not just the Solent that sets the Isle of Wight apart. The adventure and romance of living on an island, its wildlife and feel for tradition have never been more appealing, says Clive Aslet.
• Anthony Minghella: Truly, madly, deeply longing for a dairy-house setting? - Anthony Minghella's writing retreat will inspire you, says Mary Wilson.
• Property wreck of the week - Overflowing with charm etc? By Anna List Brain.
• Property of the week: Another job well done, Bob - The Windmill, in Worcestershire, makes for the perfect bachelor pad, says Anna Tyzack.
• Bargain hunter - Our homes and interiors column brings you the very best that money can buy, for not much money at all. By Alison Cork.
• Word on the street - Buy-to-let market tremors will soon see a spate of panic-selling. By Edmund Conway.
• Ask the expert: Property clinic - Planes overhead are ruining the quiet life; Capital Gains Tax and conversions; building over a manhole; how to part from an agent.
• Ken Russell's scene-stealer of a Lakeland home - The house where the film director once lived and worked is for sale, says Jonny Beardsall.
• Property advice: Need to know - Continuing the series in which our Clinic experts provide a guide to those thorny issues that can trip up the unwary. This week, John Winter on the planning rules governing new central heating systems.
• Property in Yorkshire: A property game of two halves - Hull and Beverley lie just seven miles apart in Yorkshire's East Riding, but they could be different worlds. While beverley was recently rated Britain's best place to live, Hull has been called the 'forgotten city'. But with Hull City rising to sixth in the Premier League and new partments sprining up, it's time for a reappraisal, says Zoe Dare Hall.
• Stately home living: Welcome to our wing of the castle - Why settle for surburbia when you can live in a grand home? Yvette Huddleston and Walter Swan report.
• Buy-to-let: Out of the city, out of the slump? - Can buy-to-let still work now that the bubble has burst? Zoe Dare Hall finds out what the experts plan to do next.
• Interior design's best-kept secrets? - Pick up a tip ot two from Britain's top designers, who are never afraid to experiment. Nicole Swengley reports.
• Church conversion: Faith, hope and clarity - The buyers of a deconsecrated church in Northumbria have produced a home of sublime craftsmanship, says Mary Wilson.
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• Property advice: On the level - Builder Jeff Howell gives it to you straight.
• Property in Morocco: Medina madness - If you don't watch out, your restored riad could end up with hot-flushing loos and cold showers, writes Zoe Dare Hall.
• I'm having an eco home - Claire Alderson says building a house is like having a baby, you even get morning sickness.
• Eco homes: After interminable delays, our rail carriage home is full steam ahead - What could be greener than a recycled house, asks Elspeth Thompson.
• Boracay: a laid-back piece of paradise - Mary Wilson finds five-star apartments available on an idyllic Philippine island where the living is easy.
• Property in Cyprus: A tale of two Cypruses - Cyprus and its once-hostile neighbour, the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, seem intent on reunification. On property patrol both sides of the border, Ginetta Vedrickas looks first at the south, home to some 80,000 Britons.