Ideas to suit all tastes and to create a space that is truly luxurious

This stunning Lisbon apartment acts as a home, studio and gallery space for two designers

Sharon Hornsby set out to design a kitchen that returned long-lost charm to her 1920s cottage in West Sussex

Nicola and Phil Murphy fell in love with their house as soon as they saw it, with the exception of the kitchen, but it wasn’t enough to put them off. ‘We had three very young children toddling around and the kitchen was just not a comfortable or inviting space to be in,’ says Nicola.

If it’s taken three years to find the right house, why wait any longer to enjoy living in it? That’s the question Gbemisola Ikumelo, two-time BAFTA winner and star of Black Ops and Famalam, asked when

Reinventing a home that hasn’t been touched in 30 years is a big task, but designer Mark Howorth was up for the job and even managed to include the art gallery space the owners wanted