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When it comes to plotting and planning a new kitchen, we need all the help we can get – this expert kitchen advice story was our most popular in 2022

This hilltop home is a response to its setting – three pods, a central living area, over-arching roof and encircling deck comprise a sustainable design open to land and sea

The world is renovating it seems and this project resulted in a fully updated home, suitable for the changing demands of a contemporary family lifestyle

A dark, atmospheric bathroom with glass-walled his & her zones tops our list of Bathroom stories for the year

Tennis, swimming, outdoor dining – no need to pick and choose with this everything-included expansive al fresco environment

Dripping chandeliers and a decidedly rustic dining table share space in this much-viewed sumptuous inner-London interior 

Materials play a part in this bedroom's presence, including Prega Wave curtains in fabric Voil Petelli, by Donatelli; and bed linen and decorative pillows, by Casa Almeida 

Surprise reveal – it is only once you turn a corner and enter this home's living room that a tableau of the city, with the Auckland Sky Tower spiking up, emerges

For this new home – to an extent shaped by its situation – a simple roof form starts with a half gable at the street and folds to a full gable at the north

Kitchen, dining and living co-exist harmoniously in this interior – in part due to shared low profiles and a general choice of natural, subdued tones

For this renovation, an attractive new floating floor also improved the home's insulation while tactile rugs help delineate areas of use

For this front garden the owners wanted the structure to hark back to a period when the property was first established and when the garden style worked hand in hand with the building