A serendipitous move from the country to a bustling high street marked a fresh chapter for Gail O’Reilly, whose 18th-century cottage blends warmth, colour and pattern

Independent retailers Laura and Will Mellor transformed the dated interior of a Georgian cottage into a sumptuous home with the same nostalgic appeal as their homeware store

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

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

Rachel Ashwell, the creator of the Shabby Chic aesthetic, has renovated and decorated her 17th-century farmhouse with her signature romantic, floral and natural style