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Furniture

Why we love table settings

Taking time to prepare a well-laid table is always going to be time well spent.

Features

At home with Butter Wakefield

Award-winning garden designer Butter Wakefield welcomed us into her blossoming garden, which has been nearly 20 years in the making.

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The right fit

Small, medium or large, our kitchen designers ensure that a room works 'just right' whatever its size.

Kitchen

A place for everything

From pots and pans to food cupboard essentials, the kitchen has a lot of things to accommodate – which means storage needs to be super organised.

Garden

Laura Jackson: a host with the most

Laura Jackson knows a thing or two about curating beautiful, design-obsessed objects for your home. Here she shares with us her expert tips on hosting that’ll leave a lasting impression.

Features

At home with Anna Barnett

As we’re invited into Anna's home, the cook, food writer and host of The Filling podcast shares her passions for simple, tasty food and how she creates a welcoming home for friends and family.

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Regular wild swimmer and journalist Lorraine Candy explains what makes her dive into freezing water for fun. In between the duties of domestic life, family life and work life, I regularly carve out...

Furniture

Dreamy patterns

Layering patterns into any room will create a characterful space, but in a bedroom, it’s vital that the result is restful and harmonious, says interiors editor Lucy Searle.

Features

How to distinguish clouds

Clouds are classified in three groups: cumulus, stratus and cirrus. But how to identify what you’re looking at?

recipes

In the kitchen with Hugo Guest: A Special Spring Lunch

After working as a chef in London and Italy, Hugo Guest and his wife, Olive, returned to Glebe House, Hugo’s family home in Devon, in 2020 to run it as a restaurant and guest house. They built a ve...

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She sells sea shells

For children, collecting shells from the beach is a rite of passage. For some, that interest develops into a career as a shell artist, as design writer Aimee Farrell reveals. The marvel and mystery...

Interiors

A summer glow

Take a tour around your home and the one thing you’ll find in every room is lighting. Be it the kitchen, the bedroom, a study or your living room, whatever the function of the space, at some point ...

Interiors

Orkney White

Inspired by the soft white sands of the Orkney Islands’ beaches, our new Orkney White shade has a rich, textural history, as colour expert and author Kassia St Clair discovers. History lies closer ...

Interiors

Woven in time

Discover the rich domestic history and sustainable properties of natural rattan, as featured in our new Athena lighting collection.

Interiors

The call of the scallop

From Renaissance artists to today’s leading interior designers, why has the scallop motif enticed creatives for so many centuries?

Interiors

Our coastal colour palette

View Orkney White, our seasonal shade, against this soothing, watery palette of soft blues and greens with hints of earthy brown and ochre.

design services

Let’s design: kitchen edition

Designing a new kitchen can be daunting and overwhelming, but it can also be a great deal of fun. And, at Neptune, we’re always striving to make sure that, for everyone who chooses to design their ...

One kitchen, three homes

The best kitchen designs evolve to reflect individual needs, from the smaller, starter kitchen to the considerably larger, kitchen-as-a-living-room space. Our Suffolk kitchen is an example of a sty...

recipes

Apple, blackberry and cinnamon puff pastry tarts

A slightly different take on the classic apple pie. One that’s ready to be wrapped up and taken with you on an afternoon walk, whether you’re venturing out on a proper ramble or simply dashing to t...

Kitchen

Making it personal

Designing a kitchen that works for your particular space means you might want to look beyond the regular options for extra adjustments or individual details

recipes

Smashed butternut, roasted garlic & pomegranate croutes

For those evenings when you just have a few friends popping by, when you need something bite-size to hand round at a get-together, or you’re looking for a recipe to serve as the prelude to the mai...

That winter glow

With a little planning, lighting can become a secret weapon for boosting winter warmth around your home, according to interiors journalist Amy Bradford. ‘Light is the first essential. Light stimula...

recipes

Orange and ginger madeleines

It’s always good to have a little something on hand for when friends or family unexpectedly stop by – which seems to happen all the more in the bonhomie of the festive season. And even better when...

recipes

Donal Skehan’s hosting menu

Orecchiette with Kale and Spicy Pangrattato Sometimes known as ‘poor man’s parmesan’, and sprinkled on many pasta dishes, pangrattato is Italian for fried breadcrumbs. In this recipe, the pangratt...

All in the mix

These days, the best dressed dining tables don't match. A beautifully laid table is a considered art. One that goes far beyond the simple placing of perfectly matched plates, bowls, and serveware...

Pistachio panettone cake

Food writer Skye McAlpine shares a recipe for Christmas Eve from her book, ‘A Table for Friends: The Art of Cooking for Two or Twenty’. The idea to use pistachio butter here, between each layer o...

Where style meets structure

A room’s plaster mouldings might be seen as decorative details, but they are often aesthetic necessities, says interiors editor Jessica Doyle. In the drawing room of a beautiful castle in the Sco...

recipes

Deliciously Ella’s Autumn Menu

Created and fine-tuned in her Henley studio kitchen, Ella Mill’s plant-based menu includes a slow roasted aubergine dish, a jewelled wild rice salad, and a plum, blackberry & maple crumble. All...

Evolving the country kitchen

This Chichester kitchen takes the roots of historical country house kitchens and reimagines them for contemporary living, including an innovative pantry wall. The story of the country kitchen is ...

Features

A meaningful plan

How best to develop and protect Britain’s natural wooded habitat for the next generation? As responsible timber furniture makers, Neptune is partnering with a forward-thinking woodland creation ch...

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