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Have you recently transformed your home with a renovation, extension or conversion? Whether you’ve extended your kitchen, made over your dated bathroom or landscaped your outdoor space, now’s your chance to share it with the Real Homes community by entering our all-new Real Homes Home and Garden of the Year Awards. Enter today and you’ll be in with a chance of winning £1,000 of John Lewis & Partners vouchers. You’ll also appear in the glossy pages of Real Homes magazine with a fun and professional photoshoot of your project, to inspire other readers looking to transform their homes. So, how...

AN A-LINE SKIRT can be ho-hum, but snipped out of a splashy print and it suddenly has attitude. That ’s one way of looking at this grand apartment in Toronto’s Yorkville neighbourhood. Here, riotous colour, lively prints and art mingle for the ultimate in city living. “I would describe it as traditional elegance with a twist,” says the homeowner of the condo’s design.She downsized from a veritable Shangri-la, a midtown house where she had lived for 20 years, which was filled with art and antiques. “It was a magnificent home with 150-year-old oak trees, a great garden and a swimming...

A LANDMARK 1920's HOME IN PALM BEACH IS REDONE IN A GIDDY, GUTSY BLEND OF PAST AND PRESENT. FROM THE OUTSIDE, the Palm Beach, Fla., house that Maxine Granovsky Gluskin shares with her husband, Ira Gluskin, is a throwback to the oceanfront enclave’s old-school opulence. Built in the 1920s by renowned American architect Addison Mizner, the landmark has a Mediterranean Revival style that perfectly preserves the glamour of an era when Vanderbilts, Rockefellers and Astors f locked to the area for sun and fun. Inside, however, the transformation that took nearly two years to complete is an awe-inspiring blend of...

Designer Brian Gluckstein outdoes himself with a must-see showhome that holds the promise of life well lived. Low-set wainscotting and full-length drapery emphasize the great room’s lofty ceiling. “I like high ceilings and love to incorporate at least one in every design,” says Brian. High-contrast trimon the off-white coffee tables and armchairs evokes the signature piping of a timeless Chanel jacket. Sofa, GlucksteinHome; armchairs, cube tables, throw pillows, art (right), Gluckstein Design Planning; drapery fabric, Threadcount Textile & Design; rug, Elte; photographic art (left) by To ny Ko u ko s; wall and trim colour, Distant Gray (OC-68), ceiling colour(throughout),...

Jackie Di Cara has long lived by the design motto, “If it’s not beautiful or useful, it has no place in your home,” but walking the walk got substantially easier recently when she rebuilt her home around the concept. In 2016, when their son, Dane, was a fast-growing toddler, Jackie and her husband, Nino (he owns a publishing company focused on electric vehicles), finally gave up on their “cool and happening” St. Lawrence Market condo in Toronto and moved out to a more kid-friendly neighbourhood near the lake and local shops and cafés. But the charming wood and cedar-shingled two-storey...