Homes & Gardens

Coming upon oversized florals festooned across double-height walls and a pitched ceiling in a East Hampton heritage house feels a little incongruous. And it turns out that the dramatic Josef Frank linen wall treatment is just one in a series of unexp

It was this time last year that my husband and I began renovations on our home. I admit, this is not the most revolutionary story to share – the builders moved in (along with the dust) and we moved out – but I’m sure many of you are about to embark o

The interior designer Nina Farmer didn’t grow up in an old house. Her design language of richly layered interiors punctuated with antiques evolved as she moved through periods in her life. ‘My parents built our first home from scratch. It was in the

Leaving London and upping sticks for Jersey wasn’t something that interior designer Bryony Richardson and her husband Laurence had planned, but they sought a more rural life after having their first baby. ‘Jersey is a bit like living in an Enid Blyto

Having spent her childhood growing up in a 14th-century cottage in Devon, English-born interior designer Elizabeth Hay moved and set up her eponymous design firm in Singapore in 2013 and, for the past 10 years, has been developing her signature ‘quin

City seems to meet country at this elegant house in Rosedale, Toronto, where the exterior is adorned with the rambling wild roses that give the neighbourhood its name. The house, built in the 1980s, is located on a tree-lined street overlooking a for

Courtney Smith’s adobe hacienda, located in the hills of Marin County, California, with views over the East Bay, both surprises and delights. The home’s Spanish-influenced architecture is not common in northern California, nor is the bold interior wi

When it comes to decor, designer Emilie Fournet has an uncanny ability to choose paint shades that look as if they’ve always been there. ‘I’m drawn to colours that feel authentic to the period of a house, but also work with more modern elements,’ she

When working on a new build, the interior designer’s brief is often to try to install a sense of character. Instead, working on the Roman and Williams-designed Fitzroy in New York, designer Shawn Henderson already had plenty to play with: from the re

When the owners of this 1930s Colonial Revival-style house in Presidio Heights, a family-friendly neighbourhood near San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge, needed help to create an equally family-friendly interior, they turned to designer Lauren Nelson.

There’s a real Oscar Wilde-y feel to this home,’ Jennifer Hamilton, director of The Vawdrey House, says of one of the firm’s latest projects in London. The clients, an Australian couple, had watched as Jennifer and her team worked on their neighbours

The house was a time capsule,’ explains Mike Fisher, creative director and founder of interior design company Studio Indigo, who was commissioned to renovate this Grade II-listed Georgian townhouse in London. ‘It was like stepping back in time. The h

Interior architect Giacomo Totti’s apartment epitomises the bold and unexpected both inside and out. Situated in the charming historic city of Thiene in northern Italy, his home stands in marked contrast to the period buildings that surround it, with

We knew which piece of art would hang above the sitting room fireplace before the house was even built,’ says Taline Findlater of Olivine Design. ‘And it’s no exaggeration to say that we moved walls to accommodate the owner’s dining table. She was br

Leena Nasser describes her home as a ‘creative womb’. As a social scientist, writer, artist and dancer, her imagination is the driver behind many of her undertakings, not least her landmarked Upper West Side apartment built in 1915. ‘There’s a joy ha

An eccentric sea captain’ is how siblings Tom and Kate Cox of Hám Interiors describe the imaginary owner of this coastal home, a former net loft perched on the clifftop overlooking Trevone Bay in North Cornwall. ‘This is a holiday property but we des