Restoration Projects

When the owners of this Cotswolds house bought it, it was a bland Twenties reconstruction of a seventeenth-century house that had burnt down. They and their architect set about rebuilding it, reconnecting it with its gardens and wider surroundings

Having inherited a derelict merchant's house on the Greek island of Patmos, designer Melina Blaxland-Horne and her husband Dimitri set about salvaging abandoned elements of its period interiors before embarking on a careful and characterful restoration

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.

For interior designer Benji Lewis, happening across this somewhat rundown French house in a favourite village of his provided the opportunity to restore it and retain all its period charm

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

In a historic rectory in rural Kent, the architect Ptolemy Dean has brought its disparate array of architectural styles into harmony, enabling decorator Alexis Wylie to create inviting interiors with bohemian touches

With the help of architectural studio Bindloss Dawes, the colour curator at Farrow & Ball replaced an ‘unliveable’ structure with a build that is contemporary yet sympathetic to the rural landscape, and which has just won a prestigious RIBA award for architecture in England's south-west

Following centuries of neglect and being gutted by fire, Astley Castle in Warwickshire now offers comfortable accommodation in a modern structure sympathetically inserted inside the medieval and Tudor shell

Lamb's House in Leith has been lovingly restored by the conservation architects Kristin Hannesdottir and Nick Groves-Raines – and part of it is now available to rent on Airbnb.

Designer Looby Crean jumped at the chance to convert a former storage building next door to her house when it became available, and its unusual proportions make for a beautifully expansive interior

Dorian Bowen’s sensitive restoration of a dilapidated 18^th-century hand-built rural farmstead acts as a living testimony to age-old Welsh architecture and simpler times

To celebrate the publication of his new book John Stefanidis: A Designer's Eye, House & Garden revisits the interior that was the genesis of it all, the home he created on the Greek island of Patmos

The Kent home of artist Robert Montgomery and poet and actress Greta Bellamacina is a jewel box of candy colours, distinctive antiques and original artworks. The effect is irreverent and original, and provides the perfect setting for their family life and work

In a former schoolhouse transformed into artist's lofts decades ago, Cassandra Ellis, founder of natural paint company Atelier Ellis, revitalised the space for family life, all whilst maintaining its original spirit of learning and sharing

This Wealden hall house in Kent had some unflattering 1920s additions, so the owners assembled a group of experts to restore its late-medieval heart, exposing original structures, swapping cement for lime render, and introducing harmonious furniture and furnishings

Antiques dealer Adam Bentley took on the 17th-century stone cottage adjoining his childhood home in West Yorkshire almost 20 years ago, sensitively and thoroughly overhauling it before filling it with an ever-changing mix of pieces

When stylist Nora Eisermann and her photographer wife Laura Muthesius acquired a neglected former schoolhouse in the north German countryside, it took a gut renovation to transform it into the calmly beautiful retreat it now is

We take a look at the magical atmosphere the late Robert Kime and his wife Helen created at La Gonette, his country house in France