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

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

It was essential to me that the house retained its character and didn’t end up looking like a new-build,’ says Karen Schmidt of the renovation of her 1930s villa in Værløse, just outside of Copenhagen

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

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

This luscious green kitchen proves the value of trying things out