The last one for now, and it's the opposite of everything else we've done. Not what's changing, but what doesn't, and how you go about buying it.

Median UK renovation spend is £20,000 and planned spend for this year halved to £10,000, so this isn't an episode about buying expensive things. It's about where a smaller budget should go, which is a different and more useful question.

The trade answer is buy less, buy better, and the word doing the work is craftsmanship, which means nothing because there's no legal definition of it. What you can actually check in a shop in two minutes: on upholstery, the frame and the joints, with weight as a rough proxy for a hardwood frame. On wood, whether it's solid or veneered, and then whether it's a decent veneer or a printed foil on chipboard, which the edge always gives away, because nobody finishes the inside of a cheap cabinet.

Hana's two questions are whether it can be repaired and whether it can be taken apart. A sofa with a washable cover survives the thing that actually kills sofas, which is a stain rather than a broken frame. A chair with visible joints can be re-glued. A table with bolt-on legs survives being carried into a first-floor flat, which is where a lot of furniture dies.

Also: what FSC, Cradle to Cradle and GreenGuard Gold actually certify, and why none of them tells you whether a thing will last. Contract furniture as an underrated route, because it's built to be sat on by strangers eight hours a day. The three purchases worth paying more for, chosen by hours of use rather than visibility. And the case for buying things that have already lasted, where time has run the durability test for you.

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Fourteen episodes reporting what's in and what's out, and we have never once asked who decides. This is the one where we turn round and look at our own sources.

A colour of the year is part trend forecasting, part sales data, and part a committee deciding what to sell. Pantone have been doing theirs since 1999 and Dulux since about 2004, and it started as a signal to manufacturers and retailers roughly eighteen months ahead of anything reaching a shop. By the time it's reported as news, the paint has been mixed and the fabric woven, which is why these things feel self-fulfilling. They partly are.

Dulux's argument for blue this year was psychological: calm, fluid, stabilising in a turbulent time. That claim is unfalsifiable, meaning no outcome could contradict it. If blue sells, the mood was right. If it doesn't, the mood hasn't turned yet. Pantone used almost the same sentence about a frenetic society and concluded off-white. Same diagnosis, opposite prescription, which tells you neither of them is measuring the mood.

On Pinterest: the methodology is public, which is more than most of the trade press manages. It's normalised English-language search, so it's global rather than British, it's what people looked at rather than what they bought, and a percentage with no base number can hide very small figures. A term going from twenty searches to sixty is up two hundred percent. Pinterest call it a not-yet-trending report, which is honest of them.

Marcus ranks the sources by how much money had to move for the number to exist. And we admit who this reporting is written for, which usually isn't somebody with a terrace and twelve thousand pounds.

The podcast comes from the Interior Design Clinic app. If you want to see one of these trends in your own room before you pay for it, you can upload a photo of the room and try it in 26 different styles at interiordesignclinic.com

Got a room you're stuck on, or a trend you want us to price up? Tell us and we'll take it on the show.

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This show is made by Interior Design Clinic. If you want to see a trend in your own room before you pay for it, you can upload a photo of the room and try it in 26 different styles at interiordesignclinic.com

Got a room you're stuck on, or a trend you want us to price up? Tell us and we'll take it on the show.

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Seventeen percent of British homeowners put more storage on their improvement list this year, which puts it level with a garden makeover and above a home office, an outdoor entertaining space and smart home technology.

Nobody wants storage. That's what makes the number interesting. It's on the list because there's a problem, not because there's a want.

Why we haven't got any is structural rather than aesthetic. Victorian houses were built for people who owned fewer things, so there are no fitted wardrobes and no utility room. And the new-builds haven't fixed it, because floor area is what sells and a cupboard doesn't count as a bedroom. Every square metre given to storage is a square metre you can't put in the listing.

Then the price of the fashionable answer. A bespoke pantry with drawers and internal spice racks is a joinery job at two to four thousand pounds. A tall larder unit from a standard kitchen range does most of the same work for four or five hundred, and the difference is the door, the depth of the internal worktop, and whether the runners last twenty years. Which is real, and isn't a fourfold difference.

Also: the alcoves either side of a chimney breast, which are space you have already paid for and which are doing nothing. Why vertical storage beats horizontal by a factor of three. Under-bed space and why nobody uses it. The shallow hall cupboard that changes your morning. And why it's worth finding out what you're storing before you build somewhere to put it.

The podcast comes from the Interior Design Clinic app. If you want to see one of these trends in your own room before you pay for it, you can upload a photo of the room and try it in 26 different styles at interiordesignclinic.com

Got a room you're stuck on, or a trend you want us to price up? Tell us and we'll take it on the show.

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This show is made by Interior Design Clinic. If you want to see a trend in your own room before you pay for it, you can upload a photo of the room and try it in 26 different styles at interiordesignclinic.com

Got a room you're stuck on, or a trend you want us to price up? Tell us and we'll take it on the show.

New episodes weekly. Following the show in your podcast app is what tells the app to show it to other people, so if this was useful, that's the thing that helps.