An unusual Victorian terraced house in London softened for family life
‘We wanted to soften the materials a bit and break up the hard lines in the house,’ explains…
An unusual leaf-shaped house hidden away in the Cotswold countryside
‘Yes. I remember Adlestrop.’ So begins Edward Thomas’s poem, recalling the tiny Gloucestershire village where his train unexpectedly…
Julian Chichester brings laid-back charm to an historic townhouse on the Portuguese coast
The late-19th-century house is situated on the corner of two quiet, pedestrianised streets in the middle of the…
An atmospheric ranch house in South Carolina where global styles harmonise
American single-storey architecture lends itself well to bringing the outside in with large expanses of glass. In the…
A writer’s hidden Notting Hill cottage with a wonderfully pretty interior
The door into the study is painted in Farrow & Ball’s ‘Hopper Head.’ A mock façade of a…
An 18th-century Cotswold house filled with colour and eclectic layers
‘I love old houses. They give off this amazing sense of all of the people that have lived…
Inside a sun-filled flat in Madeira by up-and-coming designer Jacquelyn Scalamera
The castellated yellow façade of the house was a key influence in Jacquelyn’s design for the interiors. Luis…