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

When Sophie and Freddie Naylor-Leyland first spotted this Victorian townhouse online, they were dubious. The existing decor, often a difficult thing to look beyond, and the tricky layout nearly deterr

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

I have always wanted to live in a period property, and the quirkiness of this house is so appealing to me,’ says artist Mink Yip of her Worcestershire home. ‘It’s actually made up of three old propert

Since we moved here in 2018 from a smaller two-bedroom terrace, we’ve painted our living-dining room in many different colours, from dusky pink to light green and dark blue. I really love Bauhaus, Pop

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