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Homes and Gardens February 2011

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Taking the pain out of painting

Woodberry fence style comes in green -  from £229

Anyone who has spent an afternoon painting fence panels will tell you that it is a labourious and sometimes messy task.

Why Diarmuid is going back to the future

Diarmuid Gavin

Diarmuid Gavin reveals his joy at the return to more traditional styles of gardening with eco-awareness in mind.

Decorate like a designer

One of Joanna Wood's interiors

Bewildered by this year's trends and not sure where to start? Gabrielle Fagan talks to three top designers about what's hot and what's not in 2011.

Standing out from the crowd

Go for neutral — but not boring

Furnishing a rental home is a pragmatic art which needs to balance short-term trends against the need to entice a wide audience. Hannah Hilton of Decorum Interiors in Oxford describes the solution.

Feel the heat with designer radiators

Bristan's vertical Slab radiator, which features a large mirror-effect chrome front, £499

The boring but functional radiator has come out from behind the furniture and is making a style statement all of its own, writes Gabrielle Fagan.

Good as new

Good as new

Roll up your sleeves and give existing patio furniture a 'wash and brush up' for summer.

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