Living with antiques

PAINTING NOSTALGIA Artist Polly Mabel Nicolaou creates ...

An American family has fully embraced an English aesthetic in their Cambridge Arts and Crafts home, which is full of colour, pattern and joyous design details

Built only 20 years ago, this home has a heritage look that’s down to the use of antiques and aged finishes but also its designers – Sara Swabb and Tanya Smith-Shiflett

Keen to winkle out the character from beneath its glossy surface, this home’s owner set out to revive its period beauty with a mix of vintage and modern pieces, colourful accents and quirky finds

Third time lucky, as they say, certainly rings true for Alison Coldridge and her husband Simone, recalling the ups and downs of house hunting. Both their number one and number two choices fell through

Who do you live with and where? I live with my family, and dachshund, Lady D, in a small, rural village in the Norfolk countryside, in the east of England. It’s a wonderfully peaceful part of the coun