Country Barns
Houses
A Cotswold barn goes from short-term let to permanent home for Catherine Chichester
When reimagining a Cotswold barn used for short-term lets as her permanent home, Catherine Chichester’s belief that each room should be filled with personality and everyday elements of beauty came into its own
Houses
A Cotswold farmhouse mixes a calm colour palette with flourishes of pattern
With a clear colour palette lifted by occasional pattern and an eclectic mix of furniture, interior designer Victoria Gray has created a Cotswold retreat for her family that marries rustic charm with minimalism, and transcends modern trends
Country
A Cotswold barn with warm and welcoming interiors
For their latest house, a 19th-century barn with outbuildings in Oxfordshire, Mark and Georgie Rowse have drawn on their extensive renovation experience – and their address book of specialist artisans – to create a characterful and welcoming home for themselves, their family and a host of visiting friends.
Houses
A deeply inventive Gloucestershire barn conversion by the founders of Rapture & Wright
The couple behind Rapture & Wright fabrics and wallpapers are used to combining their talents to creative effect – not least in the design of the Gloucestershire barn conversion where they live and work
Houses
Inside the founder of edit58's charming converted barn in a quiet Cotswold hamlet
Lisa Mehydene, founder of online homeware platform edit58, was looking for a weekend house in the Cotswolds when she found this loftily proportioned converted barn on the site of a former spiritual retreat
Houses
A neglected 17th-century cart shed reinterpreted as a calm, cottage-like guesthouse
When Caroline Riddell was called upon to renovate and reimagine a run-down historic cart shed as guest quarters for a larger house, she turned to traditional techniques and materials to make sure the space would be welcoming and cosy for anyone who happened to cross its threshold
American Houses
A Maine barn decorated with natural materials from its rural surroundings
In an extract from Vendome's new book on the historic houses of Maine, 'The Maine House', native New Englanders Maura McEvoy, Basha Burwell, and Kathleen Hackett explore an 1850s Cape house belonging to a pair of artists
Country
A medieval barn set in idyllic grounds on the Nyetimber estate in Sussex
This historic manor house, at the heart of the Nyetimber sparkling wine estate in Sussex, has been thoughtfully restored to create a beautiful family home.
Houses
A 17th-century house and barn in Berkshire seamlessly unified by Caroline Riddell
Unifying the vast proportions of a barn conversion and its adjoining 17th-century house is no easy task, but with a light touch and a delicate colour scheme, Caroline Riddell has achieved a pleasing sense of harmony
Houses
Hubert Zandberg transforms a 19th-century barn with a masterfully restrained palette of materials
Interior designer Hubert Zandberg describes the placement of objects as a ‘symphony’, and the restrained colours and materials he has used in this Buckinghamshire barn conversion provide the ideal background notes.
Country conversions
An architect draws an elegant, textured courtyard house from the remains of a 17th-century barn
Architect Thomas Smith set about transforming a barn into a comfortable family home, guided by the Sri Lankan approach to nature and a deep respect of the building's history, character and materiality
Houses
A barn-style holiday house on the Long Island coast with luxurious interiors by Veere Grenney
On a plot of farmland on the Atlantic coast of Long Island, a firm of Manhattan architects and a London-based interior designer have created a barn-style holiday house for their clients that is appropriate to its rural setting, yet has all the accoutrements of stylish modern living
Lifestyle
Inside the life and homes of garden antiques experts Travers & Katie Nettleton
Outdoor-antique experts Travers and Katie Nettleton have brought together small businesses and independent dealers at two sites on the Wiltshire-Berkshire border
Country
A reading room-cum-guest-cottage full of hidden surprises and witty details
It is a book room with rather more to it than meets the eye. Wanting a place to display her treasured collection, Emma Burns, senior decorator at Sibyl Colefax & John Fowlerhttp://www.sibylcolefax.com/, transformed a converted barn at her country home into a sitting-room-cum-guest-cottage full of hidden surprises and witty details...
Modern Country
A tiny barn on the edge of meadow filled with treasures by Christopher Howe
On the edge of a Gloucestershire meadow sits a tiny barn filled with varied treasures collected by the antique dealer and designer Christopher Howe.
Restoration Projects
A 17th-century farmhouse renovated for open-plan comfort
A 17th-century farmhouse in Hampshire presented ample creative opportunities for interior-design duo Robinson van Noort, who have blended its period elements with open-plan contemporary comfort in the two-storey barn attached to one side
Country
A stylish Cotswolds barn conversion
A Stylish Cotswolds Barn Conversion with Modern Interiors. Combining modern design with natural materials has created a minimalist haven
Ralph Lauren Home
Ralph Lauren's Colorado ranch
We revisit our 2002 tour of the fashion and homeware designer Ralph Lauren's Colorado ranch
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