Whether you like looking at paintings or getting your hands messy with glue, our arts and crafts articles cover everything from art and design to crafts and photography.

5 Surprising Ways to Get Awesome Smartphone Photos

Great photography is all about the basics: make sure your lighting is great, use the Rule of Thirds to compose your shot, and get close to your subject to keep it from looking too small and insignificant. If you do those, you’ll get a great shot. You can then use apps to create cool effects,… Read more »

Create Your Own Work of Art This Weekend

Having a piece of art on the wall can really finish off a room, making it look properly decorated. But art can be incredibly expensive, even if you go to an affordable art fair. Luckily, there are certain aesthetic styles and art projects that can turn out really well, no matter what your artistic skills… Read more »

10 Secrets of Interior Design

Interior design is a passion of many Brits. We buy magazines, watch TV shows and read blog posts like this to learn about the newest trends, get inspiration and more. But often, the most important elements of interior design have little to do with the newest rugs or which themes we choose. These are the… Read more »

7 Ways to Customise Cheap Furniture

For many of us, the idea of buying custom, well-made furniture is still a dream. We have to go to the high street shops (or the Swedish flat pack shop in the suburbs) to furnish our homes with the chairs, bookcases, cabinets, beds and wardrobes we all need. Just because we can’t afford to buy… Read more »

Start Planning Your Halloween Costume Now

Whether you’re a die-hard Halloween fan or someone who has to pull together a costume for a fancy dress party, you should start planning your Halloween costume now, if there’s any chance of you wearing one. After all, you don’t want to be caught unawares, forced to wear whatever you can cobble together from your… Read more »

15 Lucky Shots You Won’t Believe

Action photography is all about timing: you can frame up the shot as much as you like, but if you don’t get the shot exactly right, the subject will be blurry, out of frame or awkwardly caught in between movements. You can increase shutter speeds, hit the button over and over and do everything in… Read more »

Outsider Art: The hot art trend we can all afford

Over the summer, the Hayward Gallery in London featured an exhibition called An Alternative Guide to the Universe. That exhibition showcased what is called “outsider art”, and it took the capital by storm. But what is outsider art? What does it mean, and why is it the one form of art that is accessible to… Read more »

Put Your Stamp on Your Home: Decorating with stamps

Decorating your home is such a personal activity. You may prefer a home that showcases the latest high street home trends, or you might get a jumble of retro furnishings from eBay. Whatever you do, though, you want to make sure that your home is a unique reflection of your personality and taste, and sometimes… Read more »

Take Better Photos – Getting the basics down

Taking good photos is all about the basics. If you know the fundamentals, you can set up shots that will impress your family and friends and will look good forever. Read on to learn how to take better photos by getting the basics down.   The rule of thirds If you want to talk basics… Read more »

The Easiest Throw Cushion Tutorial Out There

We all know that accessories can bring something together, whether it’s an outfit or a room. We all know they are some of the easiest ways to work a new trend into said outfit or room. We also know that they can be the most irritating things in the world because just when you’ve figured… Read more »