Traditional Country

In an extract from his new book Home at Last: Enduring design for the New American House, the acclaimed American architect Gil Schafer designs a multi-generational family gathering place on a bluff above Lake Champlain in Vermont

At her home in Devon, House & Garden's food editor Blanche Vaughan lives a life dictated by the rhythms of her garden and the seasonality of the produce she grows

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

Tasked with bringing a modern take on the English country look to this Georgian rectory, Tamsyn Mason set about adding colour, pattern and a wonderful array of furniture from varying eras

Marin Montagut has something of a cult following for his signature designs, and the Normandy house where he creates them all is testament to his aesthetic

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

Interior designer Kari McCabe and her architect husband Nate McBride breathed new life into their tired house using a mix of Scandinavian design, vintage pieces and inherited family furniture

Designer Bodil Blain brings warmth and richness to a neglected outbuilding, transforming it into a warm cocoon with upholstered walls and worldly antiques

Kathy Crisp's Victorian house in the Sussex countryside is filled with objects and artworks collected over a lifetime

Rich with history, this 16th-century Cotswold millhouse has warren-like rooms and secret nooks that have been enhanced by its owners’ collections of antiques and vintage textiles, along with colourful accents

When photographer James Fennell went back to his roots in County Kildare, it was with the aim of rescuing his childhood home. Together with his wife Joanna. he has not only revived Burtown House but also established a kitchen garden, restaurant, farm shop and gallery to secure its future

Creativity runs deep in Pippa Harris’s life, work and family. This is reflected in her Cotswold house, where Emma Burns of Sibyl Colefax & John Fowler has designed calm, comfortable interiors with textures and colours that echo the film and TV producer’s array of paintings and ceramics by members of the Bloomsbury group.

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’.

With its charming period features and unparalleled location, interior designer Anna Hewitson has turned this unloved cottage into a beautiful family house

When Brandon's clients called him in to work on their country cottage, it was a different type of project for the interior designer, who embarked on a pure redecoration without touching any of the architecture, electrics or plumbing of the house. He details the project in his own words.

A move to the house on the North York Moors that has been in her husband’s family since 1899 has provided textile designer Natasha James with inspiration and the ideal showcase for her colourful block-printed linens

20 years of owning this fairytale cottage have made it into a beguiling blend of perfectly preserved English tradition and Central Asian colour and pattern

When Lucy Cunningham was called in to make sense of the higgledy-piggledy nature of this centuries-old Sussex farmhouse, she discovered a house full of charm that needed some clever tweaks to create a harmonious whole

The late Victoria de Rothschild had a passion for beautiful things, evidenced in a new exhibition of contemporary handcrafted pieces from her collection at her former home, Ascott House in Buckinghamshire, which still bears the hallmarks of her refined taste