Practical ideas for living well at home.
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.
Inside Stephen Wright's House of Dreams Museum, an extraordinary East Dulwich home where found objects, memory boards, mosaics and personal history become a living environment of love, loss and creative freedom.
House of Willow Alexander· 9 October 2026 · 12-minute read
As AI moves further into our homes and physical surroundings, I want it to support the character of those places and the quality of the lives we share there.
Samuel Collett, Founder of HoWA· 6 October
Useful delegation should give us more attention for the life around us. That depends on clear permission, reliable follow-through and respect for our own judgement.
Samuel Collett, Founder of HoWA· 6 October
Style and taste are essential to the future I want to help build. As AI shapes more of everyday life, it should give people greater freedom to express who they are.
Samuel Collett, Founder of HoWA· 6 October
Useful memory can give everyday life continuity. It should preserve the reasons and preferences that matter, with room for us to change and control what is kept.
Our surroundings should help us feel at home as life changes. I believe intelligence can support that continuity while making room for different needs and tastes.
I am building HoWA to help people live in harmony in an increasingly fragmented world, with style and taste at the heart of the future we create.
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.
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.
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.
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