‘we bought the worst house on the street’

Using her artistic talents, Karen Willis turned a jaded former rental property into a stunning first home for her and her husband

When we first bought the house, I kept the decor very neutral. We were busy and the house was ideal for us as a family, with three equal-sized bedrooms for our three girls, and it was in a great neigh

After outgrowing our three-bedroom house where my eldest son was squashed into the box room, we started looking at new-build homes in the same County Durham village. At the time, I’d never even painte

I was attracted to the house originally because it ticked all my boxes, and I saw it as a sensible buy. Over the next few years, with the demands of two small children, a relationship breakup and a fu

SARAH JONES HAS CREATED A HOME FILLED WITH COLOUR, CHARACTER AND CLEVER STORAGE SOLUTIONS

Inspired by chic metropolitan apartments across Europe, Ruth Corbett and Paul Rodgers channelled a similar aesthetic for their own home