Houses belonging to interesting people

Matthew Rice has turned Ham Court into a dreamy refuge that balances layers of history with playful interiors and a garden full of charm

For Juana Pepa and her family, the Tudor cottage that started out as a weekend house soon proved too lovely to leave

Impressive in size and location, this house on the south-west coast of France is the holiday home of hotelier Cristina Lozano who, together with her long-time collaborator Lorenzo Castillo, has transformed the large, lofty rooms into tactile, characterful spaces

When Harriet Slaughter and her husband Ben Benton moved into this Georgian cottage in Kingston in 2020, it not only gave them a chance to create a home together, but also for Harriet to launch her new colour consultancy business.

Needing a weekend escape from their busy lives and stressful careers in London, designer Caroline Holdaway and her photographer partner, Fatimah Namdar, relish the peace and quiet of their eighteenth-century cottage in the Cotswolds. We revisit this story from 2019.

When former House & Garden Style Director Gabby Deeming moved to the Devon house of her jewellery designer boyfriend, the pair began to transform it into a colourful, comfortable base for their creative lives

Antiques dealer James Jackson has cleverly revived a formerly uninhabitable building hidden behind his eponymous shop on Lillie Road

It's hard to believe that this 18th-century cottage was once a bland white box, such is the magic that Tattie Isles (the designer behind this year's Chelsea Flower Show Bull Ring Gate) and her husband Fred have wrought

The wonderfully relaxed and uplifting interiors of Julian Chichester and his wife Holly’s house in Portugal belie the long, tricky project that went before. Now, they provide the ideal backdrop for an eclectic mix of auction finds and pieces from Julian’s own furniture and lighting collections

Dave and Jen Dawson are founders of a lighting company known for collections that blend form with function, modern with classic. The same can be said of their 1950s waterside ranch house in South Carolina, which has been sensitively renovated for a much brighter, more comfortable and yet entirely authentic Charleston feel

The neglected villa has been given wonderfully whimsical interiors by its Spanish owner Marta de la Rica

Having moved back to Malta, where she spent much of her childhood, Sophie Edwards took over the island’s oldest pottery, which produces the hand-painted ceramic pieces that feature in many of the colourful, light-filled rooms of her townhouse

Once two keepers' cottages, this eighteenth-century, flint-and-brick house was discovered on a visit to the South Downs by the owners, who have transformed it into their ideal weekend home, furnished with salvaged finds and contemporary art. We revisit the house story from 2019.

What started off as a holiday home in need of refurbishment on the edge of the Peak District has been charmingly and thriftily transformed into a richly layered, exuberantly colourful family house by a ballerina and her antique dealer partner

In this archive story from 2020, interior designer Louise Jones's extended home combines the charm and comfort of English country-cottage style with easy access to the centre of London

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 spending over 20 years holidaying and renting on Menorca, art and antique dealers Victoria Krauss and Fernando Alcolea bought this farmhouse in 2017. It is now an inviting family home, filled with the type of unusual pieces to be found in their interiors store on the island

Since his arrival in New York in the 1970s, British-born restaurateur Keith McNally has forged his own path, letting neither convention nor building regulations stand in his way. He tells us what brought him to the apartment he rents in SoHo and how its singular style came together

Deep inside a protected nature reserve on Mallorca’s northern coastline, the American sculptor Michael Prentice has spent decades building an enchanting retreat.

In an extract from 'Be My Guest' by the designer Pierre Sauvage founder of Casa Lopez, we visit the make-up pioneer and founder of By Terry, Terry de Gunzburg.