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.

Editor’s Letter

Journal • This May, refresh your outside space with weatherproof textiles, and revamp rooms with floral prints, wallpapers, borders and sustainable buys

Boho brights • Add colour and character with handwoven homeware and folksy prints for an eclectic, laid-back look

Totally potty • Whether for use in the garden or home, keep an array of blooms and greenery perfectly contained in this selection of eye-catching planters

A STITCH IN TIME • With her creative spirit and talent for textiles, Laura Gough has turned her country home into a haven of curated antiques, natural materials and muted tones

Could you be a winner? • If you feel proud of your period home, enter our Home of the Year Award and you could win a cash prize of £1,000!

Weekend updates • From decorating stair risers to revamping lampshades and headboards, add new interest to room schemes with these quick and easy projects

ECHOES OF THE PAST • Cherry McAree’s Victorian home is filled with well-loved family treasures, upcycled vintage finds, and all the stories they bring with them

Sit and relax • From choosing a colour palette to dressing the space, we’ve asked interior design experts for their secrets to styling a living room

THE ART OF HOME MAKING • Art lover Charlotte Yates has created a beautifully comfortable home, filled with treasures, which is as easy on the eye as it is to live in

Feeling peachy • Discover how to decorate with warm and pretty variations of peach and salmon pink to create calm and welcoming schemes

A RTISTIC V ISION • A life-long love of topiary underpins beautiful Arts and Craftsstyle planting in this garden surrounding a centuries-old Cotswold stone cottage, tucked away in a historic village

The wing chair • A fireside companion for more than four centuries, this timeless seat adds an enduring sense of welcome as well as making an elegant statement

Rural retreat • Inspired by their stunning surroundings, Mark and Sarah Firth, with the help of Oakwrights, realised their dream of starting a high-end, self-catering holiday business

House Journal

Illuminating ideas • With the humidity and moisture levels, bathrooms are one of the most challenging rooms to light, but these beautiful and practical choices are sure to inspire

Ou tdoor escape • A well thought through garden building can transform your outdoor space, helping you to enjoy the summer months come rain or shine

Country CHARM • Whether you live in a quaint cottage or want to bring some rural charm into your urban home, these pretty yet practical designs are sure to inspire

Drip, drip, drop • Whether you have issues with old pipework, or are updating a kitchen or bathroom, find out how to tackle plumbing woes

Solid footing • Find out how to retain and restore beautiful old stone floors with this advice from restoration expert, Douglas Kent

Garden Journal

Grow ing g reen • Bring life to an otherwise dead space by installing a lush, living roof on your shed, garden room, or extension

Softening the edges • Valued for their versatility and for providing groundcover with dainty flowers for months on end, find out how to...