The most popular houses of 2020

Ben Pentreath has created a masterclass in mixing colour and pattern at this diminutive early Georgian cottage in Highgate

At Asthall Manor in Oxfordshire – former home of the Mitford sisters – Rosie Pearson has restored the Jacobean house and gardens, which now provide the setting for a biennial celebration of contemporary sculpture. We revisit this archive story from 2020.

Henriette von Stockhausen’s decoration of this Regency house in the West Country combines sensitively restored elements with beautiful fabrics and wallpapers to create an elegant setting for family gatherings

In a leafy enclave on the edge of London, interior designer Rose Uniacke has brought together the disparate elements of a historic house into a serene, harmonious whole that combines luxury and comfort

A longstanding love affair with Mallorca led the owner of Bennison Fabrics and her husband to make a home there, and their translation of a classic English aesthetic to this new setting is a masterclass in pattern and placement

Interior designer Philip Hooper’s masterful blend of the classic and contemporary has given this late-Regency house in Hampshire a greater sense of harmony and dignity

The search for a London pied-à-terre brought Ben Pentreath’s clients unexpectedly to this Georgian house, which he has reconfigured and decorated in his layered signature style.

Chris Graves of Clarence & Graves has built on the beautiful bones of this Victorian house in Chiswick to create a stylish family home that blends bold colour with muted elegance

The textile designer Molly Mahon, known for her brightly patterned hand-block-printed fabrics, has created a welcoming family home in her Sussex cottage

A Design Notes Christmas special. How the writer and shop owner Amanda Brooks decorates her home in the Cotswolds for Christmas.

The imaginative restoration of the house in which JM Barrie wrote Peter Pan has teamed sensitivity to its history, including several literary allusions, with a strong approach to colour and design details.

This Friday October 1 tune in to the House & Garden website for a brand new video series, 'Evolution of a Home with Matilda Goad', charting the renovation and decoration of the designer's house from building site to a stylish family home. To celebrate the launch of the series, which will have new episodes dropping every other Friday, we revisit our original story on the project. Find out what it took to make this house happen, plus plenty of clever and unexpected decorating ideas to copy.

At her house in Connecticut, Frances Palmer has found harmony in the pursuit of her many passions – from creating beautiful vases and tableware in her studio to gardening and beekeeping

Over the past 20 years, British Vogue’s well-travelled former fashion director Lucinda Chambers has filled her house near Toulouse with an eclectic mix of colourful flea-market finds

In an extract from her new book 'Décors Barbares: The Enchanting Interiors of Nathalie Farman-Farma', we take a look around French-American textile designer Nathalie Farman-Farma's London house.

Since finishing the renovation of her husband's farmhouse in County Durham, our columnist Rita Konig has seen the colourful interiors come to life in ways she could not have imagine at the project's start

Interior designer Tara Craig has worked wonders with her own flat in Chelsea, creating an elegant haven through inspired use of colour and pattern