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Force of nature: inside a sustainable home in the New Forest | Interiors
The Clay Retreat, as the name suggests, was conceived as a place of refuge – an exhale made of oak, polished concrete and plaster. Situated …
Turning the tide with a nautical themed home on the French coast | Interiors
Located off its west coast and linked to the mainland by a bridge, the Ile de Ré is one of France’s most sought-after seaside destinations. …
Loch living: a beautiful home on the banks of the Tay | Interiors
In 2013, Jill Macnair and her husband, Neil, bought a field on the edge of Loch Tay in Perthshire. The loch is a long, narrow …
All aboard an adventurous home! Life on a restored steam carriage | Interiors
Nestled at the end of a quiet, unmade lane in Forrest, a former logging town full of weatherboard shacks two hours from Melbourne, you are …
On the banks of the Thames: a riverside dream home | Interiors
What could be more romantic than a house on the river with its ever-shifting views of swans, rowing boats and stately barges? But with water …
A writer’s colourful home has a story to tell | Interiors
I cringe when people say it’s colourful,” says award-winning author Huma Qureshi. She’s perched on the edge of a blue sofa in the front room …
Castle life: what’s next for Escape to the Chateau’s Dick and Angel? | Interiors
Do you know how sexy plumbing is?” asks Dick Strawbridge. “It’s not! But it’s so, so important,” he laughs. Actually, corrects his wife, Angel, “our …
‘I call it Afro-Aristo’: the reinvention of a Georgian worker’s cottage | Interiors
My interiors look was driven by a desire to celebrate our family’s dual Nigerian and Caribbean heritage,” says Kemi Lawson. Her new home is set …
African express: a dramatic apartment in Cape Town | Interiors
It was perhaps inevitable that sculptor Rodan Kane Hart and his partner, interior curator Maybe Corpaci, would treat their home as an experimental space. As …
John Sutcliffe obituary | Interiors
My brother-in-law John Sutcliffe, who has died aged 78 of cancer, managed to construct a career and a life around his passion for colour and …
Passion project: the passive house that raised the roof on sustainable living | Interiors
The overlooked plot that Marc and Felicity Bernstein-Hussmann ended up building a house on was deemed unfit for construction use by their local council in …
Counterculture design legend Kaffe Fassett: ‘I’m that bizarre beast – a man who does textiles’ | Interiors
It took the knitter and textile designer Kaffe Fassett two goes at buying his four-floor Victorian home in north London. In 1971, he got one …
Into the woods: how an old shed inspired hundreds of stories | Interiors
The garden designer Anthony Paul has lived in the same black-and-white cottage in the Surrey Hills for more than 40 years. He is surrounded by …
Designer couple turn dark Victorian terrace into a light filled family home | Interiors
We never actually wanted to live in a Victorian terraced house,” says Shay Alkalay, owner of an 1860s Victorian terraced house in north London. “It’s …
Ship shape: a classic art deco villa in Belgium with a touch of oceanic chic | Interiors
Yves Plançon, a French property developer who calls himself a “collector of houses”, was searching for a house in Brussels when he came across Villa …
Brighton beautiful: a lavish renovation of a Regency townhouse | Interiors
You can tell someone’s heart and soul has gone into this busy but beautiful family home in Brighton. “I love collecting things, I love shopping …
‘Every flat surface is an opportunity’: Lucinda Chambers’ unique sense of style | Interiors
When Lucinda Chambers says, “I see every flat surface as a colour opportunity,” she isn’t fibbing. The west London three-storey Victorian home of the former …
New lease of life: how an ‘unloved’ rented flat became a stylish London home | Interiors
Visit this apartment in the daytime and, with its calming neutrals and lush greenery, you’d swear it was designed for tranquil days. But call at …
How a lockdown coping mechanism led to a brighter family home | Interiors
Name just about any colour and you will find it in Jo Glossop’s bright, bold family home in Kelsall, a small village outside Chester. Jo …