House
A Miller's Tale
March 2010 Approached from its leafy drive, Hedera House looks like a perfect Regency villa.
A Love of the Land
March 2010 Moving out of the Georgian farmhouse that has been your family home since 1968 might seem a daunting prospect for most people, but Steven and Emily Hall saw it as just another stage in their lives together.
Family Matters
Feb 2010 Hurst Farm is not a huge, rambling traditional farmhouse, nor is it the grand, elegant home...
A New Wave
Feb 2010 Psychologists sometimes say that children strive to give their family's life-story a happy ending and interior designer Diana Harvey has...
A Rich Tapestry
January 2010 Helen Grant welcomes us into her seaside home with hot coffee and irresistible, honeyed baklava.
A Passion for Pattern
January 2010 Tucked away, at the end of a leafy driveway, is a typically Kentish house.
Decorative Living
December 2009 It's odd, perhaps, but the expression 'living over the shop' somehow now seems to conjure 1950s images of a middle-aged, Fair Isle-sweatered tobacconist and his aproned wife settling back, Horlicks in hand...
Home from home
October 2009 Originally, the house was a terrace of three Queen Anne labourer's cottages. Then a couple of centuries later, a Victorian front was put on...
Barn Free
October 2009 Extraordinarily, despite the fact that this is not a big barn and now houses countless lovely pieces, never anywhere does it feel the slightest cluttered in fact, exactly the reverse. Everywhere there seems space and light...
By George They've Got It
September 2009 Alex and Katie saw many houses on the Kent and East Sussex borders before they found the right one: a Georgian farmhouse with six bedrooms. "We loved the huge windows, the flagstone and tiled floors, and the feel of it,"
A Gardeners World
September 2009 The barn, which dates back over 400 years, was only converted in 1997 and had been lived in by a couple who remain in the village. "It was in excellent condition," says Sophie.
House of Linen
August 2009 The Linen Shed started out as a Great War army drill hall where, on still summer evenings, the deadly rumble of the Flanders guns across the Channel could clearly be heard...
Art House
August 2009 The enormous inglenook, like a spine, stretches through the house to the magnificent, vaulted master bedroom...
Pocket full of Rye
July 2009 Built in 1723 by James Lamb from a powerful local family, it even played host to royalty when King George I was swept ashore at Camber Sands on his return from Hanover.
Potrait Of A Lady
July 2009 Do people find houses or do they find us?
Calm and collected
June 2009 The first clue that I have arrived at the right house is the gleaming paint on the front door with its incredibly highly polished brass handle
Over the Rainbow
June 2009 There's far more to this house than a lot of souvenirs of a glitzy life. Rather than a slavish following of the latest trends, there's an obvious love of the unusual and unique...
Designed for Living
May 2009 Flexibility was always part of the design, the idea being that the house could be adapted to the family's changing needs...
The Doll's House
May 2009 There's far more to this house than a lot of souvenirs of a glitzy life. Rather than a slavish following of the latest trends, there's an obvious love of the unusual and unique...
A Butterfly Unfurled
April 2009 this remodelled chalet bungalow has emerged from its chrysalis as an elegant family home with views to die for...
Degrees of Light
April 2009 a creative family's home in Hastings
We'll gather up the lilacs
March 2009 At first glance, Edenbridge House looks like something from the pages of a P.G. Wodehouse comedy or Agatha Christie mystery
Taking a View
March 2009 Making the decision to downsize can be daunting to consider, but Margaret and her husband David seem to have embraced the process.
Business as usual
February 2009 A house in the heart of the Weald, the welcome is a picturesque one...
Welcome Aboard...
February 2009 Anita C is a 128ft German coastal barge that used to run ballast from Wandsworth to Brightlingsea...
A Rural Retreat
January 2009 This beautiful three-bay hall house dates back to 1490 with Georgian...
Alls Fair...
January 2009 The Georgian facade belies the fact that this lovely Wealden farmhouse was once a medieval hall house but, step inside, and the centuries roll back...
Full of Eastern Promise
December 2008 This fascinating home - filled with bright corridors and large windows that light up the rooms - is the perfect setting for a family Christmas.
Up the Garden Path
December 2008 Garden designer, Kate Ball, lives and works in her delightful delightful Georgian villa
Architectural Treasures
November 2008 From the quiet cul-de-sac outside, this stunning 3-story contemporary home outside it looks like a fairly typical modern house but step inside and enter a different world...
Loitering With Intent
November 2008 Hannah and Roger live in a collection of interconnecting yurts in North Kent. They combine yoga teaching with working as gardeners and are expecting their first baby...
