La Rosa, a house in the historic centre of Mérida, capital of the Mexican state of Yucatán, exudes a sense of the past and reflects …
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Let there be light: a radically revamped 1980s home | Interiors
When John and Kate Cameron were looking to downsize from their Victorian family home in a suburb of Edinburgh after their children left home, they …
Life lessons: a Swedish schoolhouse becomes a glorious new home | Interiors
In 1998 the designer and artist Gunnel Sahlin was looking for a summer house. But when she stepped into an old school building on top …
Margate mates – a Georgian home on the south coast | Interiors
There are few rooms in the home of Charlene Prempeh and James Goodhead that don’t feature Mahal Kita dried flowers. Mahal kita means I love …
Giving an ancient lakeland home a modern twist | Interiors
If there was ever a definition of a comfortable seat, this house would be it. A patterned seat, a colourful seat… the interior is an …
Space odyssey: creating room in a family home in Kent | Interiors
Kingsdown House is a substantial Victorian home that sits in the shade of a mature oak a few roads back from the seafront in Tankerton, …
Hidden gems bring a palace in Palermo back to life | Interiors
When Dario Longo, a lawyer based in Milan, wanted to return to his hometown of Palermo he spent a long time searching for the right …
‘Mid-century millennial’ – the ubiquitous look that took over a generation’s homes | Interiors
For two years from 2017, I was subletting a flat in Stockholm, and the deal was that it would contain everything except the owner’s clothes …
Rocking the Scandi style | Interiors
When Massimo Minale moved from the East End of London to Stockholm, he brought his industrial aesthetic with him. The architect and founder of hardware …
Toast of the town: a home in Oxfordshire | Interiors
Imagine, if you will, that you picked up a painting of an unknown but beautiful rural British landscape by chance 40 years ago in a …
It’s not beige, it’s not grey: it’s greige – and it’s why all our houses look the same | Interiors
You might say it’s charcoal, silver, concrete, slate. You might call it by the name on the paint chip: Chic Shadow, Polished Pebble, Purbeck Stone. …
Outside the box: creative solutions in a London flat | Interiors
When Alex Holloway first watched the Verve’s music video for their 1997 Lucky Man single, he found his attention wandering from the guitar-strumming, Mod-mopped lead …
Ron Stewart obituary | Interiors
Growing up, we’re supposed to think our parents aren’t cool. With my father, Ron Stewart, Stew to his friends, who has died aged 80, this …
Factory settings: how an old steel plant was polished up | Interiors
Morning is Yasmina van den Oetelaar’s favourite time of day. It is when she sits in her garden, reads a book and breathes in the …
How we remodelled our 1950s semi in Kent into a bright and breezy beach house | Interiors
In 2018, architects Sonya Flynn and Mark Baker had just finished remodelling a large, 1970s house on a north Kent seafront for a client when …
Making a forever home: ‘It had to have zing’ | Interiors
Change happens slowly in the world of interiors. But even that sedately paced sector has woken up to the demand for online learning which began …
Circle of life: rebuilding a dramatic South African home | Interiors
Renovating an important building comes with a responsibility to honour the past without compromising one’s own vision for it. Homeowners Michael and Claire Cobbledick couldn’t …
‘You need bad taste’: how to mix styles and periods to create an uplifting home | Interiors
I don’t like mid-tones,” says Manfredi della Gherardesca. “Cappuccinos, bland colours: they just don’t work. Marriages often produce greyish houses, because nobody wants to fight …
On the right track: a rail carriage becomes a delightful coastal cottage | Interiors
Designers Keith Stephenson and Mark Hampshire have a longstanding love of the English coast. It has always been an important point of inspiration for the …
Dried flowers take centre stage in a therapist’s Berlin home | Interiors
For centuries, flowers have been dried as a way of preserving them to create long-lasting arrangements that could be rearranged and combined in a fresh …