Indholdsfortegnelse for October 2025 i 25 Beautiful Homes

Nothing beats the magic of autumn and, with it, the renewed focus on our interiors. On page 20, a former rectory has been lovingly renovated using the unmistakable shades of the season to bring a new and uplifting aesthetic. The owner of the converted cider mill on page 108 drew on the breathtaking views of the surrounding Black Mountains to inspire its interiors, while the chic style of European apartments informed the schemes of the city mansion flat on page 76. A palette of striking shades, along with carefully chosen pieces, helped to achieve the apartment’s look. We hope you find inspiration here to create just the look you want, too.…

HOME TRUTHS THE PROPERTY An Edwardian terraced house set on three floors with a large garden ROOMS Sitting room, snug, kitchen/diner, cloakroom, three bedrooms, three bathrooms, guest room/office, second office LOCATION North London ‘There are sliding pocket doors between the sitting room and the snug – they are such a space saver’ Before Lindsay Stevens and her husband, Dan, had even seen their Edwardian terraced home they contacted interior designer Andrew Griffiths of A New Day design studio. ‘I sent him the listing and asked, “Are you in?”’ laughs Lindsay who had worked with Andrew on their previous home. ‘I knew he would have a good understanding of what we wanted to achieve and he gave it the thumbs up.’ Lindsay, vice president of business development for Artnet, an online…

HOME TRUTHS THE PROPERTY A mansion block apartment built in 1890 ROOMS Sitting/dining room, kitchen, three bedrooms, two bathrooms LOCATION North London Despite its decades of neglect, upon stepping into this classic London mansion flat, Ruth Corbett and Paul Rodgers were absolutely charmed. It had the same high ceilings, parquet flooring and airy grandness of apartments they’d delighted in on visits to Paris and Rome. ‘There was a lot to love about the place,’ says Ruth. ‘And that European style and sensibility became the guiding star in our refurbishment.’ The couple lived in the flat for a year to assess how best to reconfigure it before moving out for the work’s duration. ‘Once we’d lowered our rose-tinted glasses it became clear we’d bought a complete wreck,’ says Ruth. ‘The place…

PROJECT DETAILS OWNERS Arleana Pugh and her husband Nicholas PROPERTY Detached 1960s house WORK Reconfigure and update the main bathroom LOCATION Shropshire Looking at Arleana and Nicholas’s serene and stylish bathroom, it’s hard to imagine how it was ever unappealing. ‘It was your typical 1960s peach suite – it hadn’t been touched in 60 years and was well overdue a makeover,’ says Arleana. 1 MAKING SPACE The main bathroom wasn’t the only room in the house that needed an overhaul – the entire building required a complete remodel, with subsidence issues, rewiring and an ancient oil boiler to contend with. Alongside creating a two-storey extension, Arleana and Nicholas decided to reconfigure the existing bathroom. By removing a large cupboard housing the water tank (which was then relocated to the attic),…

HOME TRUTHS THE PROPERTY Converted barn ROOMS Sitting room, two dining areas, kitchen, snug, utility room, office, playroom, cloakroom, six bedrooms, five bathrooms, attached apartment with kitchenette LOCATION Suffolk Katherine Clark and her husband were no strangers to renovating properties when they began to look for a new home outside of London but without any particular area in mind. Having decided that the house itself would determine the new location for their young family, it was an unexpected surprise to find a part-converted barn in a Suffolk town – situated just 15 minutes from Katherine’s parents. ‘We inherited the barn as a partly finished building, but it was very much a shell,’ explains Katherine. ‘The roof, walls and windows had been built along with some internal wall partitions and there…

HOME TRUTHS THE PROPERTY 1980s detached house ROOMS Kitchen-diner, dining room, sitting room, office, utility, cloakroom, boot room, five bedrooms, two bathrooms LOCATION Berkshire Sam Ouazzani had lived in his 1980s house for 11 years with his daughter, Liliya, 10, and was ready to update the decor. After admiring his sister’s house transformation, Sam became aware of the benefits of using an interior designer. ‘My sister’s home looked smart and stylish, and I really liked the details in lighting, art and mirrors,’ he recalls. ‘Quickly, it became evident that if I wanted to achieve the same level of finish in my own home, I needed to use Zophia Scarlett, too.’ Sam didn’t have a clear plan but no longer wanted bland magnolia walls and uncoordinated furniture. He was also fed…

HOME TRUTHS THE PROPERTY A detached Grade II-listed Victorian house ROOMS Sitting room, kitchen-diner, cinema room, cloakroom, utility room, four bedrooms, three bathrooms, plus an outbuilding used as an office/gym and summer house LOCATION Nottingham Many house-hunters love the idea of a blank canvas, but for Vicki Joshi and her fiancé Jimmy Barber, their home’s previous incarnation took this to an extreme. ‘There was no colour, everything was painted white and overall it lacked joy. But we knew we could turn it into a beautiful home, while celebrating its original character,’ says Vicki. Their home came with impressive historic credentials. It is part of the Park Estate, which was designed by Thomas Chambers Hine, the architect behind many of Nottingham’s landmark buildings. Smaller areas of this double-fronted house, such as…

HOME TRUTHS THE PROPERTY Regency townhouse ROOMS Sitting room, library area, kitchen-diner, snug, office, utility, four bedrooms, two bathrooms, dressing room LOCATION Northwest London Restoring this magnificent Regency townhouse and turning it into a contemporary yet characterful home with large open spaces and a seamless indoor-outdoor flow was a project made in heaven for designer Chelsea Dixon, creative director of Vada Collective. ‘Our clients, Beatrice and Max Chang, originally hail from California and wanted to bring that West Coast sense of light and air with them,’ says Chelsea. ‘They came to us because they resonated with our style and trusted us to help them realise their vision.’ A bonus, from a designer’s point of view, was that the couple had renovated homes before and understood the process that results in…

HOME TRUTHS THE PROPERTY Georgian cottage ROOMS Kitchen, sitting room/dining area, snug, boot room/utility, cloakroom, three bedrooms, two bathrooms LOCATION North Yorkshire There’s a whispering softness to the North Yorkshire Moors where the gentle slope of the chalk escarpment dips down to the sea. Rolling hills harbour pretty villages and hamlets where clusters of houses in local York stone dot the landscape and heather moorlands and acres of woodland eventually give way to the craggy cliffs of the east coast. It’s this landscape that tempted Laura and Will Mellor to sell their home in York and move to Malton, 30 minutes away. ‘We had both had businesses in York and after selling my vintage clothing store, we opened our shop Hare & Wilde in Malton together. It was then we…

HOME TRUTHS THE PROPERTY Semi-detached Victorian house ROOMS Sitting room, cloakroom, snug, kitchen-diner, five bedrooms, two bathrooms, home gym, office, utility LOCATION Southwest London HOW DID YOU COME TO WORK ON THIS PROJECT? My clients had bought a an impressive Victorian house with high ceilings and generous proportions, and hired architect James Millar to design the rear extension and loft conversion. I’d worked with James on projects before and he recommended we handle the interior design. I met Jo, my client, and we instantly hit it off – she was like a child in a sweet shop showing me around. DO YOU HAVE A SIGNATURE LOOK THAT DRAWS CLIENTS TO YOU? Our studio’s USP is attention to detail. We’re interior architects as well as designers and like to make sure…

HOME TRUTHS THE PROPERTY Detached Edwardian house ROOMS Open-plan kitchen, dining room, living room and media room, utility, five bedrooms, three bathrooms, garden room/gym LOCATION North London HOW DID YOU COME TO BE INVOLVED IN THIS PROJECT? My clients, a couple with one son, bought this house around 10 years ago as they loved the spacious rooms and characterful features. They approached my studio, Honeybee Interiors, after seeing our work online, as they wanted to extend and needed help with the interior design. The wife was very involved and we spoke or texted every day for the whole six months. WHAT WAS THE BRIEF? Initially, we were asked to work on the downstairs as they were replacing the kitchen and building a side extension to create a media room, but…

HOME TRUTHS THE PROPERTY Traditional-style house built in 1992 ROOMS Sitting room, kitchen/dining area/family room, playroom, cloakroom, office, boot room/laundry room, five bedrooms, four bathrooms, pool house LOCATION California WHY DID YOUR CLIENTS BUY THIS HOUSE? It was all about location, location, location when my clients, Patty and Rick, bought this property in the suburban neighbourhood of Sleepy Hollow in 2021. The size of the lot, which backs up to open space, was another plus for spending ample time outdoors with their two young children. HOW DID YOU COME TO BE INVOLVED IN THIS PROJECT? As Patty says ‘we screamed for help!’. They had inherited some plans the previous owners had done, but it wasn’t a perfect fit for their needs. We had a natural rapport from the outset and…

HOME TRUTHS THE PROPERTY Garden flat ROOMS Kitchen-diner/living area, two bedrooms, two bathrooms LOCATION Southwest London Lucinda Sanford doesn’t follow an equation to find its simplest answer. Instead, she seeks an alternative solution and the one that perhaps made more sense all along. Take bedrooms, for example; ‘The room you sleep in can be a smaller room, because it’s nice to have somewhere used for this sole purpose,’ Lucinda explains. ‘Whereas a larger room can be used as a boudoir. It’s an old-fashioned word, but by that I mean a space used for dressing and working where you’re likely to spend more of your time awake.’ This rhetoric makes sense – especially given many people’s premium on space and need to work from home. Which is why in Lucinda’s project…

HOME TRUTHS THE PROPERTY An 1880s second-floor apartment ROOMS Kitchendiner, living room, library, entrance hall, three bedrooms, three bathrooms LOCATION Lyon, France Being a designer with the opportunity to create your own home is the dream project, says French interior architect Constance Laurand, who lives here with her husband, David, a lawyer, and their six-year-old daughter, Bianca. With no clients to persuade, she was brimming with knowledge and ideas, and her ‘very nice’ husband gave her carte blanche. So, she says, ‘We made an apartment for us – we didn’t design it for resale, but for how we wanted to live.’ For example, as a family that loves hosting friends, Constance cleverly designed into the expansive library a 35sq m guest apartment, with a mezzanine bedroom at the top of…

HOME TRUTHS THE PROPERTY 1750s period cottage ROOMS Sitting room, kitchen, dining room, study, four bedrooms, dressing area, three bathrooms LOCATION Hertfordshire HOW DID YOU COME TO BE INVOLVED IN THIS PROJECT? The owners, Sally and Carl, are friends of mine and I’d worked on their previous homes. Their former property was modern, built around 2000, but Sally had always longed to live in a period cottage. When this house came up for sale, they were very quick to make an offer as it’s in a beautiful setting and overlooks a golf course. WHAT CONDITION WAS THE COTTAGE IN AND WHAT CHANGES WERE MADE? It was liveable, but the former owners were in their seventies and the cottage needed updating. Sally and Carl lived there for about a year and…

1 BOLD RUG The striking patterned rug makes an eye-catching focal point in Ruth’s sitting room but also helps to anchor the space’s colour scheme. When using any bold pattern, whether on a rug, a pair of curtains or a sofa, the trick is to give the design space to breathe, so keep pattern elsewhere in the room to a minimum, bringing in tonal plains or small-scale designs to complement. Go large when it comes to rug size in a sitting room, positioning it so it extends under the legs of your sofa or chairs. Sumak Suzani rug (shown above right), £650, John Lewis. 2 OPEN SHELVING The modern shelving units are one of the standout features of Ahsan and Rachel’s sitting room. Open shelving offers a great opportunity to…