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Traditional Houses

Traditional home interior design inspiration and imagery from some of the world's best traditional house interiors

Country

Gil Schafer designs a magnificent shingled New England house with views across to Canada

By Gil Schafer

Country

At home with our food editor in her historic Devon hall house

By Emily Senior

City

Emma Burns brings a distinguished Wimbledon flat back to life with layers of warm colour

By Jennifer Goulding

Country

The perfect Georgian country house of Robert Montgomery and Greta Bellamacina

By Emily Senior

City

A Georgian house in Islington full of clever colour combinations

By Emma Becque

Houses

The stable block of a grand country house in Somerset, converted into a characterful guest house

By Thomas Barrie

American Houses

A quietly elegant Atlanta house by the classical architect Stan Dixon

By Stan Dixon

Country

A handsome Georgian rectory in Hampshire with contemporary country interiors by Tamsyn Mason

By Charlotte McCaughan-Hawes

French Houses

A designer and illustrator's quaint 19th-century cottage in the Normandy countryside

By Elizabeth Metcalfe

London Houses

Chester Jones' London flat is a lesson in balance and erudition

By Liz Elliot

City

How Robert Kime's magic has endured in a Kensington house he decorated a decade ago

By Aimee Farrell

Country

Ben Pentreath's scheme for fashion designer Charlotte Dellal's home in the English countryside

By Ben Pentreath

Country

The warm, inviting family home of a designer known for cool interiors

By Elfreda Pownall

Flats

A designer's flat in Battersea packed with clever small space ideas

By Elizabeth Metcalfe

Houses by our Top 100 Interior Designers & Architects

Inside Rita Konig's smart London house, created by combining two flats into one

By Elizabeth Metcalfe

Houses by our Top 100 Interior Designers & Architects

Interior designer Ben Pentreath turns his hand to an Arts and Crafts house

By Elfreda Pownall

Traditional Country

A magical 16th-century Cotswold millhouse full of secret nooks and unexpected colour

By Fiona Golfar

Houses by the sea

The careful, characterful restoration of an 18th-century house on Patmos

By Emily Senior

London Houses

The remarkable transformation of an old bakery in Fulham by antiques dealer James Jackson

By Arabella Bowes

Country

A 17th-century Cotswold house by Emma Burns with calm, textured interiors

By Emily Senior