Cuttings from tropical supermarket plants in pots look lush, last longer and are less expensive than conventional cut flowers.

Harvest Chinese lanterns to make a brilliant Thanksgiving or Halloween light display. Designer Brendan Power tells you how to do it.

Metal office furnishings dating from the ’50s can look fresh and contemporary when you blast off the old, worn finish. Here’s how designer Brendan Power did it.

Pillow sleeves dress up dull cushions, display attractive fabric and make any interior feel up-to-the-minute. Brendan Power explains how to make them.

Sure it’s great for keeping out bugs, but metal window screen also shines as a candleholder.

Add rich colour to plain, old clear glass vases by using this dead simple back-painting technique.

How to make a conversation-starting pendant-lamp shade using 35mm slides.

Cut flowers from the garden or corner store are a fine if conventional way to bring summer indoors, but bedding plants, plentiful everywhere just now, make equally attractive and more novel arrangements.

It’s easy to turn old pots and planters from blah to beautiful with a concrete overcoat. Brendan Power shows you how.

Designer Brendan Power explains how to make these classic tabletop art supports for small images from simple blocks of wood.