There are no boundaries between my work and private life,” says architect and interior designer Claude Cartier. This is why her Lyon home is strategically …
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Rock, paper, scissors: a collage-inspired home in France | Interiors
The town of Fontainebleau, southeast of Paris, has long been associated with opulence and royalty. Its magnificent palace, built in the 12th century, was once …
Tangerine dreams: bold colour brings a home to life | Interiors
On a shelf in the sitting room of Emily Johnson’s west London home sits a tangerine. Its skin is pocked and waxy-looking and appropriately citrussy. …
How we turned our chilly terraced house into a joyful and exciting home | Interiors
Retired couple Patricia Lynch and Gwen Williams had been living in their north London terrace for more than 20 years when they realised they had …
Bringing the 70s to life: a groovy makeover in Manchester | Interiors
From the day Estelle Bilson moved into the three-bedroom house in south Manchester that she shares with her husband, Steve, their seven-year-old son and their …
Setting the scene: a stunning home on Italy’s Romagnola Riviera | Interiors
There aren’t many people who would see potential in a sprawling industrial warehouse filled with water pipes and various other industrial paraphernalia mere metres from …
School’s out: a wonderfully atmospheric Swedish family home | Interiors
Hassle Skola is the Wiking family’s home in a converted school building in southern Sweden. Filled with vintage design, cocooning colours and an abundance of …
A Merano marvel: how far would you go to make a rental home yours? | Interiors
The idea of the forever home is a romanticised concept when it comes to finding the perfect property. But what if the perfect property wasn’t …
Marble universe: a heroic restoration | Interiors
We weren’t aware that an offer had already been made on the property,” says graphic designer and Lille native Tiphaine Richards as she tells me …
‘Like living in a painting’: a fairytale farmhouse in Holland | Interiors
I fell in love with her!” exclaims Reineke Antvelink. “I think she’s just beautiful. I’m always wondering: what have you been through these past 400 …
A carnival of colour in a Rio apartment | Interiors
Ten years ago Jean de Just, a French architect, moved from Paris to Rio de Janeiro to work on a hotel in the city. The …
‘It’s about owning and projecting an aesthetic’: the rise of the stealth wealth shelf | Interiors
My induction into the world of “stealth wealth shelves” began while I was house-hunting last winter. It was the 43rd place we’d viewed, and over-budget …
Squiggly mirrors and mushrooms: how are gen Z decorating their first homes | Interiors
In the mid-2010s, the dawn of Pinterest interior design boards and advent of cheap online homewares contributed to the beginnings of a millennial aesthetic. Familiar …
Big ideas and perfect proportions in a compact Parisian flat | Interiors
When interior designer Stéphan Bidoux first visited his apartment in Paris’s 10th arrondissement over a decade ago, it hadn’t been occupied for years. “It looked …
An Arts and Crafts schoolhouse renovation in Kent proves a class act | Interiors
Bill and Hayley Kingston bought their atmospheric house in Kent in 2017. Originally an Arts and Crafts schoolhouse built in 1902, it was in a …
‘There was a buzz’: the Birthday Party’s final show flyer becomes a treasured memento | Interiors
In the early 1980s Michael Mance was an indie music-loving uni student and a regular at the iconic Melbourne live music venue known as the …
Life on the tiles in a ‘dream’ Sicilian home | Interiors
You’ve heard the adage, go bold or go home, but what happens when the two aren’t mutually exclusive? Take the Sicilian home of Ilenia Pappalardo …
Letting in the light in a Finnish artist’s home | Interiors
Ten years ago, when Laura Annala was house-hunting in her hometown of Lapua, southwest Finland, there was one property that kept resurfacing. “It was a …
A 1950s flat in Arnhem is pretty in pink | Interiors
Chantal Assinck took the decision to paint almost everything in one arresting hue when she and her partner couldn’t have the concrete walls, ceilings and …
A sustainable house built to blend into the Brazilian jungle | Interiors
The Villa Mandaçaia project has changed dramatically over time. It began as a vegetable garden, created for the hundreds of plant species that the artist …