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

A redesign of this Victorian terrace gave Emmajane Varley and her son Jasper all the space they needed

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

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

It’s not often that buyers fall in love with a house because of external factors. But, for Zoe and Lisa Hyland-Buckeridge, it was the large expanse of parking for their two family cars that won the co

If there was ever a definition of a comfortable seat, this 17th-century farmhouse nestled between Windermere and Kendal in the Lake District would be it. A patterned seat, a colourful seat, the interi