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Ready to soar: inside a dramatic eco home in Mexico | Interiors
Deep in the Mexican countryside of Valle de Bravo – a lush escape about two hours’ drive from Mexico City – Emiliano Garcia and Helene …
Unpicking the past: an ancient silk farm gets a smooth new look | Interiors
The baby-blue shutters are the first thing that strike you about this historic stone dwelling in the village of La Bruguière in southern France. They …
Milanese does it: an eastern-inspired oasis in the Italian design capital | Interiors
Milan is a city full of secret oases. Its busy, noisy streets are lined with neoclassical façades and blocks of Brutalist condominiums, but behind the …
Pluck of the Irish: style languages combine in a Dublin home | Interiors
Maria Abou Khalife is a linguist who describes her home as having two styles – perhaps, like herself, it is multilingual. One style speaks to …
A knitwear designer spins a yarn to create a colourful new home | Interiors
The Westknits Mystery Shawl Knit Along kicks off online every autumn. The much-awaited month-long event gathers thousands of keen knitters worldwide to craft a surprise …
Going up a level: a former lacemaker’s home in Nottingham gets an upgrade | Interiors
This Victorian maisonette is brimming with punch. Think bright, bold palettes, a flair for pattern clashing, and textures that are tempting to touch. The walls, …
How a school renovation in Belgium turned into a top class co-built community | Interiors
On her first visit, 15 years ago, to the abandoned school complex that was to become her family home, Veva van Sloun was in for …
‘It’s like a miniature Downton’: a cosily grand country seat in Suffolk | Interiors
Ambrice Miller is sitting in her dining room on a bobbin chair that she designed. On the wall behind her is a hyper-realistic drawing by …
Holy guacamole: are you ready for the return of the avocado bathroom suite? | Interiors
To walk into the Brokenbog warehouse is to walk into a flushable rainbow. Grand porcelain towers of 50,000 toilets, basins and bathtubs are stacked in …
Memphis by the sea: reinventing a Hastings home | Interiors
If there is one theme that will come to define early 21st-century interiors it’s nostalgia. Modernism, minimalism, maximalism – all these 20th-century “isms” have shaped …
Ignore trends, ask for more photos and haggle: how to buy vintage like a pro | Interiors
There was a time when finding the perfect vintage chair was an insider’s art – something only for those with a keen eye and the …
The far shore: distant voices echo in a stunning Lake Como home | Interiors
A little bit of British, a little bit of South African, and a lot of Italian style – this Lake Como house is exactly what …
‘It was a magical place to grow up’: the artist using her childhood home as a canvas | Interiors
I’m still getting used to this. It’s quite disconcerting,” says Carla von der Becke, looking up at an assemblage of agricultural tools – hefty saws …
Rooms in bloom: the flower-filled château of a French artist | Interiors
The château of artist Claire Basler, nestled in the languid hills of central France, is filled with flowers inside and surrounded by them outside. Not …
Dutch courage: a family home in Amsterdam balances the old with new | Interiors
We weren’t actually planning to move house,” says Rebecca Boektje. “Our son, Xan, was just six weeks old. But my husband, Bo, is addicted to …
Trading places in Bath | Interiors
Renditions of Bach’s Goldberg Variations played on an 18th-century harpsichord float harmoniously out of a shop doorway and across a cobbled street. Peer through the …
Escapist, flamboyant, fun: White Lotus inspires love of Italian maximalist look | Interiors
Fans of The White Lotus will be familiar with the classic Sicilian vases known as testa di moro that adorn the fictional luxury hotel in …
Shooting star: a seaside cottage near Rye | Interiors
Four miles along the coast from Rye at Jury’s Gap sits a cluster of nine coastguard cottages. Built in two short, perpendicular terraces, the white …
Marrakech expressed: turning an old farm into a light-filled home | Interiors
When French fashion art director Julien Tang met photographer and model Cyrielle Rigot in Paris, she was “longing for new air and far-flung adventures”. “Marrakech …