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Top coat: the expert guide to painting your house perfectly from walls to floors to radiators

Paint sales are up, but it needs to be used carefully if you want to change your home for the better. Here is how to prepare, proceed and get your preferred finish The Guardians product and service reviews are independent and are in no way influenced by any advertiser or commercial initiative. We will earn

Adidas loses three-stripe trademark battle in European court | Intellectual property

Logo first registered on a football boot in 1949 was not distinctive enough, says court Adidas has been unsuccessful in an attempt to expand its trademark three-stripe design in the EU after a court ruled it was not distinctive enough.

Bjrk, Blondie and Bruce the cover portraits that deserve to hang in a gallery | Music

The National Portrait Gallery in London is to display the photo from the cover of Kate Tempests album. But its not the only cover portrait that deserves to be exhibited here are some of our favourites

Chicago artist Theaster Gates: 'Im hoping Swiss bankers will bail out my flooded South Side bank

When artist Theaster Gates transformed a house on Chicagos derelict South Side into an artwork open to the community, it was just the beginning. Meet the poster boy for socially engaged art The 2008 sub-prime mortgage crash looked a lot like the apocalyptic end of something in many American cities, but to Theaster Gates it

How I fell in love with Badedas | Helen Sullivan

As a child, it was synonymous with the things your parents have that seem wildly sophisticated and out of reach, like Ferrero Rocher and anchovies Badedas is a somewhat obscure (dare I say niche) German bath product. It smells strongly like pine mixed with bleach, but in a good way. Those who remember using it