...Highlands. It is, quite simply, a house, and a view, worth driving for.
Here, Seamus, who heads up Draw Architecture, and interior designer Lucy Day reflect on how they came to own Grianan (the name of the house), how it has improved their quality of life and why they see owning a second home out...
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...former house on Britton Street (she’s a long-term resident of the area). Here, in a revisited version of our My Modern House series, we check in to hear how Della’s enjoying her home.
Della: “In this house, everything is geared around brightness and light. Glass opens up the spaces on each ...
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.... It’s a feeling that’s even more pronounced at the end of the track, where a converted mews house wrapped in grapevines sits on the cobbled path. Fitting, then, that its owners, Oli Hudson and Sam Rogg, run a natural wine business.
Our ‘Open House‘ series takes you behind the fro...
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...ends who had children, we decided that moving closer to family and friends here in Edinburgh was going to be a huge benefit in the next chapter of our lives.
“It was a bit of a leap of faith. We always knew that we wanted to come back to Scotland, but it seemed slightly earlier than we perhaps ...
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...he creation of a separate studio has “completed” the site, says David. Here, we speak to the friends about the renovation, their love of art and the value of some peace and quiet.
David: “I grew up in Huddersfield and I can remember looking up at Farnley Hey, the house by Peter Womersley, a...
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...kes us into some of the homes we have for sale to meet the current owners. Here, we speak to multidisciplinary architecture and design studio Suprblk founders Michael Putman and Sara LEspérance about designing flexible architecture that stands the test of time at their apartment in a former biscuit...
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...wife Yuge, and their gorgeous little baby, Wen. David and Yuge have lived here just about two years, after relocating from Melbourne. David was always drawn to the relaxed lifestyle here, and had often travelled here before setting up a more permanent home in Byron with Yuge in 2011.
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...950s bamboo chair or an African tribal mask. And I suppose it’s the same here, just in a domestic context.
“I grew up in the 1970s. My parents and their friends had inherited 18th and 19th-century furniture, and they bought new pieces, which of course now is vintage. So, I grew up with that m...
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...et the owners of some of our most extraordinary homes ahead of their sale. Here, Emma Lever unveils the crafted interiors of the house her parents built on Lansdowne Crescent in Notting Hill in the 1970s.
“I was going through some old stuff here recently and came across a bread tin I used to ma...
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...t whose home I have featured a couple of times over the past several years here when it was for sale (and didn't sell) and then here when it was up for rent. Now Nikki's 1890 5 story absolutely incredible residence is available as a location property. I would have to put this stunner in one of the t...
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There are many things to say about Adam Sykes’ renovated modernist house – that it was designed by the Mies-inspired duo Foggo and Thomas in the early 1960s; that it comprises an exposed concrete structure around which expanses of glazing are arranged; that its low-slung, stealthy profile is t...
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...rs, so I suppose that prompted me to start collecting. The retro interiors here are the result of a lot of time spent on eBay!
“I’m a photographer by trade. I did an Art foundation before studying photography and fell in love with the darkroom; the magic of it. I moved to London and started o...
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... campus is home to research, development, production, marketing and sales. Here the expertise and innovative power of an international leader meet a familiar work environment and an SME-sized ‘all-under-one-roof’ culture. All this goes hand in hand with the need for places that facilitate encoun...
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...rally gone up in the last five minutes! We’ve been trying to figure out where to put a lot of stuff we had in storage while we were building this house, a converted Victorian warehouse.
“It was originally built around the same time Waterloo station was, when a lot of ancillary businesses and ...
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... to build a waterside holiday home on what is essentially a bog. And yes, there were some difficult times when we were getting off the ground, but our practice specialises in challenging sites and I think we could envision what the completed house was going to be like, even when we first came here.
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...en
Fergus: “We were in a flat in Covent Garden before moving here. All the children were stacked on top of each other, so we began thinking about upsizing in London to get a bit more space.
“We positively didn’t know the area well before we moved here. South London has always be...
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...e front hall, which the main function is reception and enterprise display. Here we weaken the characteristics of the traditional front desk. Instead, to set a small and delicate reception desk background and a grand reception space. The transparent glass curtain wall pulls the outdoor city into the ...
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...I left school.
“I visited the Barbican centre for years before moving here, but was always slightly oblivious to the fact that there were flats above that big tunnel I would walk through to it. When I was house hunting, I came to see an exhibition here and got lost near the gardens and suddenly...
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...sees us meet the owners of our most exceptional homes ahead of their sale. Here, architect Paul Scrivener shows us around his seaside retreat in Lincolnshire, the sales particulars for which can be seen here.
Paul: A friend of mine once said, ‘How do you get to Anderby Creek? You go to the ...
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We moved a lot before we got here, and not just in this area. My first small Victorian house was in Shepherd’s Bush, then we renovated and sold two Georgian townhouses in Primrose Hill. I’ve thought a lot about period homes versus new builds since moving to a modern house here in Hackney.
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...ries takes us into some of our most exceptional homes ahead of their sale. Here, husband and wife duo Chan and Eayrs show us around the travel-inspired interiors of their latest project, which is an expansive converted warehouse in Shoreditch.
Zoe: “The place was owned by a set designer before ...
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...t the owners of some of our most extraordinary houses ahead of their sale. Here, Neil Marlow invites us in for a look at his adapted Brutalist flat in London, first designed in 1965 by Chamberlin, Powell & Bon, a practice best known for designing the Barbican.
“The thing about Brutalist buildi...
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...aircase. Although it was in a very sad state, domesticated beyond belief, there was a real sense of history and narrative to the building. The walls are a metre thick, and if they could tell a story, you get the impression they’d have a lot to say.
“Doing some research, I discovered the light...
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...meet the owners of some of our most exceptional homes ahead of their sale. Here, we meet historic paint specialist Pedro da Costa Felgueiras in his restored Georgian house in Whitechapel.
“I call Whitechapel ‘Spitalfields-sur-mer because it has similar historic houses but its nearer the r...
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... Hare’s Victorian family home in the changing neighbourhood of Trinity. Here, we’re heading to the port town of Leith to get the story of how architects Kristin Hannesdottir and Nicholas Groves-Raines put a lifetime’s worth of experience restoring Scottish houses into saving Lamb’s House f...
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