The acquisition of houses by the National Trust from the 1930s had less to do with the impoverishment of aristocratic families than the industrial wealth of bachelor donors, as Michael Hall reveals

With a hidden tunnel that leads to the beach, this wondrous Dublin home has interiors as captivating as the landscape outside

The reinvention of this Edwardian terrace is a triumph in timelessness, where styles from different eras blend together beautifully

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

Each room in John Law and Nick Woodhouse’s home has an undeniable warmth and brightness that makes the house a very happy place for friends and family

For antiques dealer Val Foster and her husband Philip, part of the attraction of moving south from Nottinghamshire some five years ago was the prospect of making a new home. ‘We’d found a property whi