When designer and former singer-songwriter Pearl Lowe swapped a dreamy rural idyll for compact city living, she didn’t sacrifice one iota of her signature look, layering florals and vintage pieces with an irreverent rock ’n’ roll sensibility

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

We’d been living in a Victorian house with high ceilings just a mile away, but we were ready for a change. The house had very little garden, and we wanted to become a lot more self-sufficient by havin

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The capital’s designers proved they know how to sell the fantasy, say Rebecca Lowthorpe and Henrik Lischke

When our new-build estate became increasingly busy with lots of families, we decided to move somewhere a bit quieter with period features. At first, we made an offer on a different apartment, but the