Practical ideas for living well at home.
The Hearth is our founding series, created with House of Willow Alexander.
Seasonal guidance for your home and garden, made more useful when you save it, turn it into a task or add it to your Home Plan.
A House of Willow Alexander interview with John Tarrow of Talliston House & Gardens, exploring the feeling of home, the power of imagination and the 25-year transformation of an ordinary Essex house.
House of Willow Alexander· 25 September 2026 · 12-minute read
October is the month the house changes gear. This seasonal home checklist helps prepare entrances, gutters, gardens, heating, kitchens, bathrooms and guest rooms before colder, wetter weather settles in.
House of Willow Alexander· 17 September
A seasonal guide to preparing the house for a bank holiday weekend, from the entrance hall and kitchen to the garden, guest rooms, bathrooms and the morning after.
House of Willow Alexander· 24 August
August is the month to reset the home before September begins. From the garden and exterior to guest rooms, household systems and the small domestic details, this seasonal checklist keeps the house beautiful, functional and ready for late summer living.
House of Willow Alexander· 7 August
Warm days change the way a house is lived in. A calm, practical guide to keeping the home cooler in summer: shade drawn at the right time, air moved with purpose, lighter rooms, cooler bedrooms and a garden that helps the house breathe.
There is a moment in early summer when the home begins to change. Doors are left open a little longer. Windows stay ajar through the morning. Light moves differently across…
Set within Sevenoaks, this home offers a considered example of Sevenoaks interior design – one that reveals itself gradually rather than all at once. At first, the architecture speaks most…
Summer hosting often begins before anyone arrives. It begins with the doors opened early, the table cleared, the guest room checked and the flowers cut from the garden. It is in the quiet details that help a home feel settled before the first person steps through the door. A…
Kent home interiors often balance heritage with modern living, but few do so with the quiet confidence of this early twentieth-century house – a place defined not by display, but…
Set within Beckenham, this home offers a considered example of Beckenham home interiors – one shaped not by a single design idea, but by the realities of how it is…
House of Willow Alexander· 29 April
House of Willow Alexander· 29 April
House of Willow Alexander· 29 April
House of Willow Alexander· 29 April
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Weekly from the studios · Spring MMXXVI, No. XI
