May 2024

25 Beautiful Homes

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25 Beautiful Homes
EDITORIAL Content Director Laura CrombieEditor Fiona MaceGroup Chief Sub-Editor/Production Editor Jennifer SpaethGroup Art Director Alison WalterArt Editor Mel AlgarDesigner Cadi JonesGroup Production Editor Maxine ClarkeChief Sub-Editor Carly Rigley
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BRIGHT Spark
THE PROPERTY Grade II-listed Georgian house ROOMS Sitting room, dining room, kitchen-diner, study, boot room, cloakroom, five bedrooms, three bathrooms LOCATION Suffolk Emma Paton, her husband Liam and their two young children Finn and Violet were li
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Welcome
Who doesn’t love the month of May? Could it have something to do with two bank holidays and that extra time to plan those interior projects? Barbara and David Hall needed all the time they could get, with only six months to complete a whole-house ref
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A Quiet Place
THE PROPERTY A renovated stone cottage ROOMS Kitchen-diner/living area, cloakroom, office, three bedrooms, two bathrooms, dressing room LOCATION Lake Lugano, Italy There is no trace of Lorenzo and Simona’s house on Google Maps. It is hidden among the
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Changing Rooms
THE PROPERTY Detached house ROOMS Open-plan kitchen-diner, family room, library/snug, utility/boot room, cloakroom, five bedrooms, three bathrooms LOCATION South London What started as a helping hand transforming Angus and Laura Stanning’s dated dini
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The good LIFE
THE PROPERTY Cottage dating back to the 17th century and connecting barn ROOMS Sitting room, reading room, kitchen-diner, utility room, four bedrooms, two bathrooms LOCATION Buckinghamshire Linda Morey-Burrows, founder of design practice MoreySmith,
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Back To Glory
THE PROPERTY Victorian farmhouse ROOMS Kitchen-diner/living area, sitting room, playroom, study, cloakroom, four bedrooms, two bathrooms LOCATION Staffordshire Moving out of London for a rural lifestyle is a rite of passage for many young families. F
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Sunny Days
DESIGNER Sean Symington (seansymington.com) PROPERTY A Georgian villa WORK Sitting room design, as part of a whole-house interior renovation LOCATION Somerset ‘My clients had just purchased their dream home – a Georgian villa set back from the road i
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Surrounded BY NATURE
THE PROPERTY A modern barn-style detached house ROOMS Open-plan sitting and dining room, kitchen, one bedroom, one bathroom LOCATION Monmouthshire, Wales After house-hunting for three years, Sally Latto and James Brook knew they’d have to compromise
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Italian Renaissance
THE PROPERTY Victorian terraced house ROOMS Sitting room, cloakroom, kitchen, dining room, den, three bedrooms, two bathrooms, dressing area LOCATION Northeast London When it comes to the more important feature in her freshly renovated Victorian home
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SEAMLESS in Seattle
THE PROPERTY Waterfront home, built in 2012 ROOMS Sitting room, dining room, kitchen, laundry room, pantry, cloakroom, mud room, five bedrooms, four bathrooms LOCATION Seattle HOW DID YOU COME TO BE INVOLVED IN THIS PROJECT? The clients, a couple wit
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All Change
THE PROPERTY Victorian terrace ROOMS Kitchen-diner/living space, cloakroom, utility room, four bedrooms, two bathrooms LOCATION West London Passionate property enthusiasts, Barbara and David Hall found themselves moving on unexpectedly after receivin
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Material WORLD
THE PROPERTY Detached gated house built in 1996 ROOMS Sitting room, snug, kitchen, utility room, cloakroom, office, three bedrooms, three en-suite bathrooms, plus a separate two-bedroom annexe LOCATION Hertfordshire Lovingly built in the 1990s by the
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Grand Designs
DESIGNERS Will Dewar and Martin Dowle, Sketch Architects (sketch-architects.co.uk) PROPERTY Edwardian home WORK Kitchen extension and entire ground floor renovation LOCATION London The owners of this townhouse, a couple with three teenagers, wanted a
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Play House
THE PROPERTY 16th-century manor house ROOMS Kitchen-diner, sitting room, snug, conservatory, playroom, six bedrooms, four bathrooms LOCATION Somerset A run-down manor full of nooks and crannies not only ticked the right boxes for interior designer Sa
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Moving On Up
THE PROPERTY Georgian villa ROOMS Sitting room, living area, kitchen-diner, dining room, studio, cloakroom, four bedrooms, three bathrooms LOCATION Lincolnshire Part way through renovating their three bedroom Victorian house in Worthing, Jade Jordan-
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Country Charm
DESIGNER Tony Lister, Simon Taylor Furniture (simon-taylor.co.uk) PROPERTY Victorian cottage WORK A new kitchen LOCATION Buckinghamshire The owners of this Victorian country cottage asked Simon Taylor Furniture to replace the dated, tired kitchen wit
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A Sense Of History
THE PROPERTY A semi-detached Italianate townhouse, built in 1900 ROOMS Sitting room, dining room, kitchen, three bedrooms, dressing room, bathroom LOCATION New York Only two hours north of New York City, the small and picturesque town of Hudson is wh
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Tailor Made
THE PROPERTY Apartment in a Georgian townhouse ROOMS Sitting room, dining room, kitchen, snug, study, cloakroom, three bedrooms, two bathrooms, dressing area LOCATION Edinburgh We never dreamed we’d live here,’ says Heidi McPherson of the location of
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Hotel-suite Chic
OWNER Anna Hart PROPERTY A detached six bedroom house built in 1899-1904 WORK Transforming a large, poorly laid out bathroom LOCATION Hertfordshire Located above a double garage, Anna Hart’s en suite was a shoddy 1970s addition to a period house that
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Style Counsel
THE PROPERTY Detached Edwardian villa ROOMS Family room, snug, kitchen-diner, study, cloakroom, utility, basement games room/living area, five bedrooms, three bathrooms, two dressing rooms LOCATION Cheshire For someone who claims to have no imaginati
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Form & function
THE PROPERTY A terraced Victorian townhouse ROOMS Sitting room, study area, kitchen, four bedrooms, two bathrooms LOCATION Cambridge I wanted the house to feel incredibly calm, but for there to be the occasional, subtle nod to the unexpected,’ says A
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Period Piece
THE PROPERTY A Grade II-listed, detached farmhouse, with parts dating back to 1520 ROOMS Sitting room, dining room, kitchen, boot room, cloakroom, four bedrooms, two bathrooms LOCATION Essex Despite being only half a mile away from her previous home,
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A MODERN classic
THE PROPERTY A Victorian semi ROOMS Sitting room, kitchen-diner/living area, four bedrooms, two bathrooms LOCATION North Yorkshire Putting letters through doors and arranging an off-market deal can be a great way to get the home you want in a heated
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Restful Retreat
DESIGNER Nicole Yee of NY Interiors (nicoleyee.com) PROPERTY 1930s detached house WORK Bedroom renovation LOCATION California Anne and Jeff Swinney came to the realisation that while they weren’t crazy about the aesthetics of their house, they were r
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Open House
THE PROPERTY 1950s ex-council house ROOMS Kitchen-diner/living area, two bedrooms, two bathrooms LOCATION Southwest London WHAT WORK HAVE YOU DONE TO CREATE THE HOUSE YOU WANT TO LIVE IN? We knocked through the three small, dark rooms on the ground f
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Hidden DEPTHS
THE PROPERTY A garden apartment in a Victorian property ROOMS Sitting room, kitchen-diner, utility room, three bedrooms, two bathrooms, plus outdoor studio with mezzanine and en-suite shower room LOCATION North London The tailored family home of inte

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