Prudence Ivey

Editor, Homes & Property

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Prudence Ivey is the editor of the multi award-winning Homes & Property

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Prudence Ivey is the editor of the multi award-winning Homes & Property

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Interiors

The G-word: kitchen gadgets London chefs swear by

London’s food and drink experts reveal the one item that saves their bacon in the kitchen

15 May 2026
Interiors

How to build your own desk for less than £100

The shops have sold out of budget home-working options but it's easy and inexpensive to make your own — and it will give you something to do in lockdown. 

14 Dec 2021
Interiors

One artist’s epic journey to transform London home into living artwork

Artist Stephen Wright reveals how filling his East Dulwich House of Dreams with sculptures, mosaics and found objects was a type of therapy.

8 Dec 2021
Property News

Virtual property boom mirrors our obsession with bricks and mortar

Investors are buying homes in the metaverse they can’t actually live in — but is it so different to the way the property market functions irl?

8 Dec 2021
Bill Granger
Where to live

Bill Granger on his ‘accidental emigration’ to this west London area

The Australian cook, author and restaurateur behind Granger & Co, moved to Notting Hill from Sydney 12 years ago.

6 Dec 2021
Property News

A-list families love this south-west London riverside village

Great schools, fast links and a village vibe are the perfect package. 

24 Nov 2021
The Conrans
Interiors

We should be grateful for Terence Conran’s influence despite his flaws

Our homes would look very different were it not for the design visionary, who launched Habitat in the Sixties

19 Nov 2021
Property News

Are new property taxes the way to upgrade our homes energy efficiency?

It’s estimated it’ll cost £330bn to upgrade homes to the necessary standard

3 Nov 2021
London, UK.  21 October 2021. A large-scale analogue TV art installation by Ibrahim Mahama made from e-waste in Ghana. Preview of ?Waste Age: What can design do??, an exhibition at the Design Museum to see what the design industry can do to tackle its env
Interiors

‘Can good design wean us off fast furniture?’

Let’s put an end our throwaway culture and planned obsolescence

1 Nov 2021
Comment

Why do so few ‘progressive’ dads take parental leave?

Joe Lonsdale’s tweet that paternity leave is for losers means men and women lose out

29 Oct 2021
Interiors

Take a tour of the world’s most inspiring industrial interiors

Warehouse living specialist Sophie Bush tracks down the best hotels in converted factories, mills and storehouses in a new book. Prudence Ivey discovers how to bring the look home

29 Oct 2021
Housing Stock
Property News

Autumn Budget 2021: what was in it for housing?

New homes and infrastructure were among major announcements in Rishi Sunak’s Autumn Budget.

28 Oct 2021
Property News

Notting Hill studio for sale for £150,000 — so what’s the catch?

The property is available for cash buyers only and needs complete modernising

8 Oct 2021
Where to live

Armistead Maupin’s guide to the south-west London area he calls home

Author and LGBT activist Armistead Maupin made his name with the novel series Tales of the City, set in Seventies San Francisco. He has lived in Clapham with his husband, Chris, for two years.

5 Oct 2021
Property News

Biggest monthly house price drop since 1992 after spring frenzy

The two per cent fall in London in the month to July was echoed throughout the country, with UK house prices down 3.7 per cent.

15 Sept 2021