Reader home award winners

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BEST HOMES 2022

IT WAS SUCH A TREAT FOR THE IDEAL HOME EDITORS TO LOOK THROUGH ALL THE STUNNING ENTRIES THIS YEAR. EACH OF THE WINNING PROJECTS WILL APPEAR IN FULL IN IDEAL HOME IN 2023. TURN OVER TO FIND OUT WHO THE WORTHY WINNERS ARE...

BEST HOME

WINNER SUSANNE & JEREMY HEWSON

We were bowled over by the Hewsons’ modern New Zealand-inspired larch-clad house. Set in a sub-tropical garden in the heart of south London, it was originally a dark and poky Seventies chalet-style brick bungalow. The couple transformed the space to create an open-plan kitchen-dining-living room, as well as extending and adding a new upper floor.

BEST GARDEN

WINNER CAROLINE WHITTINGHAM & BILL BAINES

Using a fresh, modern design that combines entertaining spaces with structural, seaside-friendly planting, Caroline Whittingham and Bill Baines rejuvenated their jaded garden. The not-quite-square urban plot behind an Eighties three-bed semi had barely changed since the house was built. The ch

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Ideal Home Magazine

4 October 2022

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