Designers' houses

In a once bombed out mews in Clapham Junction the print designer Neisha Crosland and her husband have created a private arcadia drawing inspiration from ancient Rome, Paris, Venice and Madeleine Castaing

It has been 15 years since House & Garden last featured the king of French decorating, Jacques Grange's Paris apartment. With new photographs from renowned interiors photographer Ricardo Lebougle's new book ‘Inside Paris’, the recently renovated space and his vast and eclectic collection gets better and better

A clever layout rejig, a mixture of vintage and contemporary design and lashings of lovely fabrics have upgraded this flat within a Victorian house from dreary to dreamy

Interior designer Chester Jones’s philosophy of decoration is that a home should reflect the lives and personalities of its owners. This is demonstrated by his London flat, in which the treasures he and his wife Sandy have amassed over time are artfully arranged and regularly rearranged, to create interesting juxtapositions and tell the story of their shared history

She is known for her interiors for members’ clubs and hotels, but it is Susie Atkinson’s own family house in Hampshire that reveals so much about what is important to her – rooms that are elegant but also personal and inviting

When plans for a full renovation of his small Battersea flat were scuppered, interior designer Christian Bense instead had to work with what he had, creating a layered, full flat where every bit of space is used well

When Max Sinsteden started decorating his Rhode Island cottage, he kept the colours neutral in order to let his beloved collection of treasures shine

From murals to mosaics and bespoke ceramics, interior designer Laura Gonzalez’s close collaborations with artisans have made her house in northern France a showcase of creativity, individuality and warmth

At her home in a valley in North Wales, doyenne of bohemian country house style Jane Ormsby Gore has found the perfect expression for her delight in ‘the lovely, the strange and the simple’.

The seaside house designer John Derian shares with his partner Stephen Kent Johnson bears witness to his love of the 18th and 19th centuries and his extraordinary eye for collecting

A Provençal stone farmhouse with its origins in the 17th century and a glamorous past has been renovated by its owner, the furniture designer Victoria Stainow, to create an inviting home and the perfect showcase for the chic pieces she sells through her company

When Joanna Plant and her husband Nick upsized into a semi-detached 1920s house in Acton Town, they were embarking on a decades-long journey to shape and adapt their comfortable family home

Doyenne of fabrics Carolina Irving has turned her eye for texture and print to creating a diminutive but super stylish house full of bottle greens and rusty reds. Her friend, the interior designer Remy Renzullo, explains.

When Joanne Burgess, of The Curious House, bought this house in Henley-upon-Thames, she inherited a senseless layout and a surplus of bedrooms, doors and windows. With ingenuity and imagination, she has transformed it into a bright, characterful home.

When the designer Caroline Riddell and her husband bought a dilapidated 16th century Suffolk longhouse complete with ghost, they set about injecting it with a fresh, friendly spirit

With her signature approach to layering and clever use of colour, Lucy Cunningham has injected personality into her idyllic cottage

Having found this tiny cottage in Oxfordshire five years ago, Victoria Barker has reversed the effects of a characterless renovation to create an irresistibly pretty interior

For interior designer Philip Hooper, joint managing director of Sibyl Colefax & John Fowler, his own house in Somerset offered a rare opportunity for experimentation. Combining bold colour with personal treasures, he has created distinctively different but inviting interiors

Using her unique approach to colour, pattern and antiques, Anna Spiro has created a family home which pays homage to her home city of Melbourne