It was essential to me that the house retained its character and didn’t end up looking like a new-build,’ says Karen Schmidt of the renovation of her 1930s villa in Værløse, just outside of Copenhagen

When Sophie and Freddie Naylor-Leyland first spotted this Victorian townhouse online, they were dubious. The existing decor, often a difficult thing to look beyond, and the tricky layout nearly deterr

Living in an old cottage in the Cotswolds, Vanessa Love wasn’t planning on a move 90 minutes away to Wiltshire, until her elderly mother, Ann, fell ill. ‘She was on her own, so I moved into her flat i

Not many people move into a new home only to find enthusiastic strangers routinely turning up looking for a place to stay the night, but if the house in question was once a youth hostel sequestered in

IF THE HOME OF VINTERIOR FOUNDER Sandrine Zhang Ferron IS ANYTHING TO GO BY, THERE’S NOTHING OLD-FASHIONED ABOUT ANTIQUE AND VINTAGE DECOR

I have always wanted to live in a period property, and the quirkiness of this house is so appealing to me,’ says artist Mink Yip of her Worcestershire home. ‘It’s actually made up of three old propert