City houses with contemporary interiors

Having moved to Bath in 2022, natural paint specialist Cassandra Ellis's serene Georgian townhouse is an ode to her love of raw, honest materials and a lesson in why we shouldn't all be striving for perfection. Unsurprisingly, the soft, calming palette here is spot on, but even that's a lesson in listening to the building and how you want to live and feel in a house.

A move from London to Miami saw this couple collecting favourite antiques and fabrics, before installing them an ocean away. The result is a warm and eclectic family home.

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

Faced with a roof-less shell, interior designer Henry Prideaux gave this Georgian house in London back its identity, reintroducing period details and adding contemporary pieces to reflect the owners’ interests

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.

Taking on a listed Victorian house, with Nineties decoration and owners who love hotel chic, is not an easy commission. But Sigmar’s Ebba Thott relished the challenge to create refined modern interiors to suit the family’s lifestyle in their south London home

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

Taking on the decoration of a nine-storey townhouse for clients based in America would faze some, but Bryan O'Sullivan and his studio saw it as a place to experiment with colour and work with a host of artisan makers to create something unique and full of character

When Tobias Vernon, the gallerist and dealer behind 8 Holland Street, opened a new space in Bath, he decided to create a superlatively sophisticated guesthouse where visitors can immerse themselves in the gallery's unique aesthetic

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.

This east London terrace is the perfect illustration of interior designer Rachel Chudley’s ability to create a narrative that carries through every room. Here, this is inspired by the owner’s rich heritage, with Austrian finds and family heirlooms setting the tone for imaginatively eclectic yet eminently practical interiors

Interior designer Jessica Summer's latest project in west London sensitively balances practicality and beauty, providing a sanctuary for its owners – and shows us why it's all in the detail

A modernist house in south London offered the perfect blank canvas for interior designer Sophie Ashby, who has showcased eye-catching contemporary artworks against a subtle mix of natural materials and inviting textures to transform it into a distinctive family home

For this London bolthole, the client wanted something truly unique from designers Artichoke. The result was deceptively high-tech, where every detail tells a story

Taking one large space and making it work as three different things is not easy, but Sally Wilkinson's effortless and airy design of her Atlanta loft might prove otherwise.

A trend forecaster's flint-fronted cottage where she has installed quiet, contemporary interiors informed by her time designing accessories for Ralph Lauren

With a bright new extension by David Hingamp of Archic, this classic London house was perfect for the owners' growing family, but it needed the confident hand of interior designer Kate Guinness to make the decoration sing

Interior designer Rachel Chudley and writer and performance artist Rachel Snider, the owner of this London house, share more than a name. Their love of fashion, art and the avant-garde is reflected in its surrealist-inspired interiors, which nonetheless work for family life.

The owners of this London house were happy to let designer Stephan Eicker be bold with his schemes for its rooms, which set off their collection of modern art