Firing On All Cylinders

Let’s imagine for a minute that you’ve had a nice little lottery win and have a couple of hundred grand to splurge on a car.

This Life Claire Pollock

Top-quality produce and a talent for hard work have seen this farmer’s daughter join the rest of her family in making Ardross Farm Shop one of the best in the country

How To Get Right Architect For Your House?

The right architect can unlock the potential of your existing home or turn your dreams into three dimensions in a brand-new house. Three practices with experience of doing both share their advice on how to get started

What Going Wire-free Could Mean For You!

The latest advances in smart technology for the home puts convenience and heightened security within reach of more households than ever. We look at what going wire-free could mean for you

Behind Closed Doors Freedom Bakery

Giving people a second chance at life is the driving force behind this artisan breadmaker with a difference

Escape Glen Dye

Come for an exhilarating woodland stay designed to refresh and reinvigorate adventurers young and old

Big Ideas

THWARTED IN THEIR ORIGINAL EXPANSION PLANS, THE OWNERS OF THIS STEADING TOOK A VERY DIFFERENT APPROACH TO GET THE SPACE THEY NEEDED

Margaret Tait [1918-1999]

The Orkney-born artist’s radical approach to film is being honoured in her centenary year

Meet The Maker

“My favourite sort of day is when I can clear the decks and get on with making and designing.

Rocking The Look

OFTEN THINGS STRIKE YOU AS familiar, but you just can’t put your finger on precisely what it is they remind you of.

Carnegie Library, Coatbridge

I CAN’T BEGIN TO DESCRIBE HOW MUCH of an impact Carnegie Library had on me growing up on a Coatbridge housing estate.

Ed Bartlam

Ed Bartlam is the co-founder of Underbelly, the organisers of this year’s Edinburgh’s Hogmanay.

This Life Lisa Trainer

A better work-life balance was all it took to make the interior designer fall back in love with her Glasgow home

Eleanor Paulin Watchmaker

Meet The Maker

Hill House

CHARLOTTE FIELL Charlotte Fiell is a leading authority on the history, theory and criticism of design. Together with Peter Fiell, she has written and edited more than 50 books on the subject, the latest of which, Modern Scandinavian Design, has just been published by Laurence King

This Life - Errol Park

Weddings, polo ponies, conservation and renewable energy are all in a day’s work for the man who runs this Perthshire estate

Raise A Toast

THE RE-ISSUING OF A HUMBLE TOAST RACK wouldn’t normally generate so much excitement in fans of design, but this is no ordinary breakfast table item. This is the Campden toast rack by Robert Welch.

This Life

A talent for upcycling combined with a good eye for a vintage fi nd have helped the cashmere entrepreneur to create a wonderfully unique home in the Highlands

One Up

One Up

Case Study Bird Watching

Case Study Bird Watching

Angie Lewin Printmaker

Angie Lewin Printmaker

Talla Na Mara

CRAIG HILL For the past two decades the East Kilbride-born comedian has been entertaining audiences around the world with his cheeky, camp performances. A regular at the Edinburgh Fringe, he can also be seen at the Whyte & Mackay Glasgow International Comedy Festival in March

Style & Sustenance

Style & Sustenance

Style & Sustenance

Gardener’s Cottage, Edinburgh

Take Cover

Shells and artistic flair have turned an unloved space into a place of beauty

Vanessa Lawrence

The mixed media artist studied at the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture. Now working from her studio in Ayrshire, she incorporates sculpture, drawing and painting, often within a single piece of work

Power Of The Flower

Kirsty Lorenz’s floral paintings do much more than simply record the beauty of nature

Walls & Floors

Be Bold With Colour And Pattern But Think Carefully Before Choosing Trendy Options

Weave A Spell

HERMES’S FAMOUS SILK SCARVES draw on history, design and the glories of the natural world,  so it’s no surprise to see its new collection has been informed by elements of all three. Called ‘Appaloosa des Steppes’, it is inspired both by the geometric patterns and beautiful colours of the felt carpets made by Kyrgyz nomads, guardians of the remote Tian Shan mountains in Central Asia, and by the spotted coat of the Appaloosa horse bred for centuries by Native Americans in the north-west of the United States – which some believe originated in what is now Kyrgyzstan.

Culling IL

HENRY JAY HARLEY TELLS US ABOUT HIS FAMILY BUSINESS, WHICH HAS BEEN SELLING FABRICS SINCE THE ’80S