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Byline: Rosie Millard Sometimes doing things differently is just what you need on a family holiday. Forsaking modern luxuries can be a positive, bonding experience – at least that's what [...]

Byline: Rosie Millard The United States government advises Americans on subjects to pick for their New Year's resolutions. Aside from dieting and giving up smoking, one perennial favourite is fixing [...]

Byline: Rosie Millard What sort of Christmas decorations are you dreaming of this year? Retro or avantgarde? Child–centred or urbane? Maximalist or homespun? Here is our guide to decorating your [...]

Byline: Rosie Millard With just three weeks to go, it's time to start getting excited about decking the halls and choosing a turkey. What's more, Christmas welcomes DIY zeal. Unless [...]

Byline: Rosie Millard A staircase is often the last thing people think of, but it can make a huge difference to a house. When stairs are done properly, they instantly [...]

Byline: Rosie Millard You think you know about Sir Paul Smith, fashion supremo. He's the man who makes the suits with the beautifully cut clean lines, with the simple but [...]

Byline: Rosie Millard A couple of months ago I wrote about Barbara Elsmore, a reader from Hampshire who saved a fortune on her kitchen with a few simple DIY techniques. [...]

Byline: Rosie Millard's I am about to take a dose of my own medicine. Rather than making pronouncements from my kitchen swing – an accessory so many readers seem to [...]

Byline: Rosie Millard A new one says more about you than your bedroom, may well cost more than your car and could give a fighter jet a run for its [...]

Byline: Rosie Millard The first house I remember was 123 Warmingham Road in Crewe. It was a tiny cottage and we lived there with my grandparents during the war. To [...]

Byline: Rosie Millard Do you hanker after a chair–andcoat–stand combo, a chandelier made from 16 desk lamps or a block of foam masquerading as a hayrick? If so, your prayers [...]

Byline: Rosie Millard Which room is the current must–have for the best houses – a marble bathroom, a restaurant–quality kitchen or an opulent bedroom? None of the above, it seems. [...]

Byline: Rosie Millard There is no question that wallpaper can add a touch of class to a room. Equally, however, there is no doubting that it can be a tremendous [...]

Byline: Rosie Millard My pronouncements about taste, kitchen worktops, indoor swings and the like have inspired many readers to respond with descriptions of their own kitchens. Barbara Elsmore has sent [...]

Byline: Rosie Millard Afriend of mine has just celebrated her 40th birthday. 'I'm nearly 60,' she says. What do you mean? I ask. Most of us think you are still [...]

Byline: Rosie Millard A–level results are just around the corner, which means that parents across the country will soon have to face the dreaded moment when their little darlings head [...]

Byline: Rosie Millard This summer, whether we go to Cornwall or Cairo, I can guarantee that on the morning of departure, the following scene will be played out by my [...]

Byline: Rosie Millard When I was young, people used to speak in hushed tones about 'taste', as if it were a matter of class. Now we are all supposed to [...]

Byline: Rosie Millards There are times when, try as you might, your house disappoints you. You can't put a finger on it, but your home seems to languish under a [...]

Byline: Rosie Millards Few objects are as undeservedly popular as Vladimir Tretchikoff's Chinese Girl, or The Green Lady. Dating from 1950, this piece of art has long been a fixture [...]

Byline: Rosie Millard My eight–year–old daughter and I are up to book five of Little House on the Prairie, by Laura Ingalls Wilder. It is a comforting bedtime read. Not [...]

Byline: Rosie Millard The age and status of my elderly parents (79 and 80) fascinates my children. 'What do they do all day?' they ask, conjuring up a picture of [...]

Byline: Rosie Millard Last weekend, I was at Scout camp, and took part in an orienteering race. It sounded easy. All we had to do to win the Scout Hike [...]

Byline: Rosie Millard The four junior Millards have one ambition: to live in the garden. 'Why can't we have a tree–house?' they whine. It's a bit disheartening, given the effort [...]

Byline: Rosie Millard Virginia Woolf wandered its corridors, discussing philosophy with her sister Vanessa Bell. John Maynard Keynes wrote The Economic Consequences of the Peace in an upstairs bedroom. Duncan [...]

Byline: Rosie Millard It's the most basic of all interiors questions: decorated, or plain? Busy or empty? Traditionally, your preference has depended on when you were born. My parents, who [...]

Byline: Rosie Millard Storage is closely aligned to its evil cousin, clutter. When it is neat and accessible, storage can be a joy. If you choose to live with minimal [...]

Byline: Rosie Millard Paul Smith calls her 'distinctive and different'; Linda McCartney worked with her; social commentator Peter York raves about her eclectic classicism and her 'glamorous Cruella de Vil' [...]

Byline: Rosie Millard Having lived together, on and off, since university, Prince William and Kate Middleton might imagine they are better prepared than previous royal couples for the trials of [...]

Byline: RosieMillard There was an awkward moment when I was trying to sell our house last year. An agent brought a potential buyer down the stairs leading to our kitchen. [...]

Byline: Rosie Millard DIY is surely the grimmest prospect for a lovely spring weekend. It can engender such ill feeling in households that many of us end up living in [...]

Byline: Rosie Millard If you are in your kitchen right now, take a look at your ceiling. Do you have a set of halogen spotlights arranged like an airport landing [...]

Byline: Rosie Millard There are many desirable parts of the British countryside. However, the West Country, with its rolling hills and spectacular, holiday–friendly coastline, is one of the best places [...]

Byline: Rosie Millard Making your own soft furnishings is definitely the hobby de nos jours. It seems that every week brings with it a new book showing how easy it [...]

Byline: Rosie Millard Do you possess one of those leggy Philippe Starck lemon squeezers, a stainless-steel Alessi bird whistle kettle or a Ron Arad Bookworm shelf? If so, you own [...]

Byline: Rosie Millard It all started in January 2002 when I covered Yves Saint Laurent's final fashion show at the Pompidou Centre. Was I sitting in the front row? Not [...]

Byline: Rosie Millard So, the children are off your hands and you have been left with an empty nest. For some years the house has been child-oriented, and now it's [...]

Byline: Rosie Millard Cheerios. Macaroni cheese. CBoiled egg. Plain tomato-and-cheese pizza. Milk. These have been not just on the menu, but the menu for my six-year-old son, Lucien, for the [...]

Byline: Rosie Millard So, how many bathrooms should the modern house have? Every time I walk in on my children's bath time, I feel grudging resentment, as if my own [...]

Byline: Rosie Millard Anyone who visits our street might find it a bit Alice in Wonderlandish. First, there is the fake panelling pasted to the kitchen door of No 6, [...]

Byline: Rosie Millard Elbow grease has made a comeback. These days no one wants to hear how your interior designer transformed your living room. Everyone is too busy taking courses [...]

Byline: Rosie Millard Bedtime will never be the same again. The first sign that things have changed in my bedroom is a subtle squashiness in the bed. Pulling back the [...]

Byline: Rosie Millard It's Day One of the new school term. Clean shoes? Check. Brushed hair? Check. Fashionable coat? Absolutely. It is not the appearance of the children I am [...]

Byline: Rosie Millard I struggled through the crowds in Hamleys yesterday to return my son's remote-control helicopter, broken on Boxing Day. The man at the till immediately swapped it for [...]

Last week, The Scaffold, the Sixties novelty act from Merseyside, were stars of the World Expo. Rosie Millard watched in amazement. Photographs by Jasper James There may be 19 million [...]

Stories - Inquiry Peppa Pig was born - aged four - amid little fanfare in a London pub in 1999. A decade on, she has been adopted in 180 countries [...]

Byline: Rosie Millard Deborah Mitchell is one of the country's most respected beauty therapists, but today she is one harassed woman. 'There are 100 messages on my phone!' she shouts [...]

Byline: Rosie Millard Would you be willing to spend four hours stacking shelves in a supermarket? Regularly? For nothing? And do a spot on the tills, and quite a lot [...]