Designers' houses

Doyenne of fabrics Carolina Irving has turned her eye for texture and print to creating a diminutive but super stylish house full of bottle greens and rusty reds. Her friend, the interior designer Remy Renzullo, explains.

After several years moving from project to project, Tara Mangini and Percy Bright have settled in this farmhouse in Upstate New York, which epitomises their appreciation of quality craftsmanship and a homespun, Scandinavian-inspired approach to design

Jane Sacchi recounts the experience of updating a twelfth-century tower in Italy, originally restored by her architect husband Bruno in the Seventies

When the designer Caroline Riddell and her husband bought a dilapidated 16th century Suffolk longhouse complete with ghost, they set about injecting it with a fresh, friendly spirit

In an archive story from 2022, Cathy Nordström’s sommarstuga or summer cabin is a spacious and family-friendly getaway bursting with colour and pattern – with many of its fabrics designed by Cathy herself

Over nearly a decade, Phoebe Hollond of Studio Hollond has restyled her Shepherd’s Bush house room by room

To extend his small 1800s Swedish farmhouse, designer Lars Bolander ingeniously joined it to a neighbouring barn, creating a light-filled sitting room and entrance hall in the transitional space.

In an archive story from 2018, we look back at when two architects bought one of the smallest houses in New York, they transformed the interior, creating a bijou interior with a sense of spaciousness that belies its exterior appearance

Using her unique approach to colour, pattern and antiques, Anna Spiro has created a family home which pays homage to her home city of Melbourne

In an exclusive extract from his new book, Seeking Beauty, Veere Grenney tells the story of Gazebo, his house in Tangier

This north London mansion flat provided the ideal fresh start for designer Virginia White, who wanted a new home with fewer superfluous rooms but enough wall space to display her extensive art collection.

With a dash of English country house charm alongside plenty of French sophistication, the Parisian apartment of decorator Timothy Corrigan is as enviable as they come

After 40 years at Sibyl Colefax & John Fowler, Wendy Nicholls is clear about what makes a good interior, and the decoration of her London flat reflects the style she has honed both personally and professionally

Having set her heart on buying within a small area in the smart Cow Hollow neighbourhood of San Francisco, interior designer Lauren Weiss was delighted to find the perfect house and set about using a warm palette to make the most of the California light in this three-storey terrace

On moving from a flat into this tall Victorian house, Georgie Hodsoll and her husband Adam Bolton embarked on a clever reconfiguration of the floor plan, allowing the decoration to evolve organically as they found the things they loved

Adam Bray's knack for mixing colour, antiques and textiles has earned him a cult following and nowhere is it more in evidence than his own London home.

Enchanted by its idyllic setting, Louise Jones could see the merits of this 16th-century Surrey farmhouse despite its interior having been stripped of any character. With ingenuity and hard work, and the introduction of pattern and colour, she has given it personality in abundance

An interior designer can let loose in their own home, in a way they can't necessarily for a client. The house in Utah that Meta Coleman shares with her artist husband and two children is a perfect example, with interiors that have evolved over 20 years into a unique expression of their love of art and travel, and her American-German upbringing

In an extract from Ros Byam Shaw's new book ‘Perfect English Small and Beautiful’, the author explores Libby Lord's charming cottage, a ‘decorative tasting menu of delights’ influenced by the quaint atmosphere of its Shropshire surroundings

Taking on a Victorian country house of grand proportions in Shropshire, the interior designer Henri Fitzwilliam-Lay has enhanced its original details and combined them with the mid-century aesthetic for which she is known.