From buying a bike to baking the best cakes: local retailers reveal what every shopper should know | Where you shop matters

Paul Rawlinson, owner of Baltzersen’s bakery. Photograph: Matthew Lloyd/Guardian There’s a particular magic that can happen when we shop on our local high streets. Transactions become interactions and purchases can…

Why Outdoor Space Matters When Buying a Home

For apartment owners around the world, the experience of having to stay at home for months during the current global pandemic has emphasized the desirability, importance and value of having…

Why Context Matters When Designing a Home

The best homes, beneath their furnishings and paint colors and finishes (or, in the best cases, intertwined with them), have an undeniable sense of place. This is something Gil Schafer,…