Ideal Home

A period home should feel warm, welcoming and full of personality. Too often, however, insensitive modernisations – even when done…

WHO LIVES HERE?Claire, a holistic stylist, and her husband Simon, a preconstruction lead, live here with their teenage twin boys…

With a paper star hung in each window, this Cotswolds home signals the arrival of Christmas across the village green.…

‘It’s packed with personality, but it’s not perfect,’ says Rockett St George co-founder, Lucy St George, of her London house.…

Designer Iris Apfel once said: ‘More is more and less is a bore’ and this statement is perfectly exemplified by…

Hafod y Llyn cottage is the perfect place to escape, especially at Christmas, when the mountain backdrops of the Brecon…

Who lives here?Mel Sinclair, a hairdresser who also runs a small business making dried flower arrangements, lives here with her…

It was the grounds that sold this house to its current owners, Nicki and Giles Moffatt. Even before they stepped…

The estate agent who sold this former village school in the Netherlands to Angélique and Eric must have thanked her…

WHO LIVES HERE?Claire Hill, an interior designer, lives here with her husband Max and their two children, aged eight and…

After years of living in different parts of London, Jo and Chris wanted to move to a place where they…

Take two architects and a pretty period townhouse near London’s Hampstead Heath, and you can guarantee a home that’s full…