Houses
Open any issue of House & Garden and you'll find an edit of some of the most beautiful houses in the world. Here you can revisit many of those houses, from historic country houses to smart city flats. Whether your taste runs more to cosy country cottages or expansive new-builds, you'll find plenty to browse here, and don't miss the beautiful houses by our Top 100 Interior Designers.
An 18th-century cottage in a picture-perfect village in the Yorkshire Dales
By Fiona McKenzie Johnston
A Cotswold barn goes from short-term let to permanent home for Catherine Chichester
By Liz Elliot
A Cotswold farmhouse mixes a calm colour palette with flourishes of pattern
By Fiona McKenzie Johnston
A deeply inventive Gloucestershire barn conversion by the founders of Rapture & Wright
By Liz Elliot
Studio Peake brings a playful levity to a London pied-à-terre
By Arabella Bowes
Beata Heuman brings her signature cocktail of ideas to an expansive London apartment
By Charlotte McCaughan-Hawes
A dated apartment in a former tannery transformed into a warm and colourful home
By Virginia Clark
A colourful Notting Hill townhouse that is a dexterous blend of English maximalism and Eastern influences
By Arabella Bowes
A handsome Grade II-listed Regency house on the Norfolk coast reimagined by Veere Grenney
By David Nicholls
Designer John Stefanidis has created a home with a mythic quality on the Greek island of Patmos
By Emily Senior
Kelly Wearstler restores the soul to a 1950s Malibu surf shack
By Charlotte McCaughan-Hawes
An imaginatively eclectic yet eminently practical London house by Rachel Chudley
By Elizabeth Metcalfe
An interior designer conjures up a fresh and colourful London house for her first solo project
By Elizabeth Metcalfe
Laura Stephens fills a London apartment with jewel box colours and heirloom pieces
By Arabella Bowes
Photography by Paul Massey
An elegant house in Chelsea layered with soft colour and thoughtfully curated art
By Elizabeth Metcalfe
An interior designer's warm and layered San Francisco terraced house
By Elizabeth Metcalfe
A bright and joyful American country house with interiors by Elizabeth Hay
By Virginia Clark
An elegant Atlanta loft that demonstrates how to make the most of a small space
By Charlotte McCaughan-Hawes
Two interior designers on their beautifully calm and pared-back Wiltshire farmhouse
By Elizabeth Metcalfe
Katie Glaister's London house is a masterclass in adding personality to an interior
By Virginia Clark
A graceful Georgian rectory set in five acres of gentle Gloucestershire landscape
By Thomas Barrie
Sophie Ashby brings a fresh perspective to a family home in south London
By Emily Senior
A classic Victorian house in Oxford revitalised by Charlotte Boundy
By Elizabeth Metcalfe
A floral designer's charming Chelsea mews house decorated for Christmas
By Virginia Clark
From the archive: inside Bowood, the epitome of an 18th-century English country house (2016)
By Virginia Fraser
A quintessential New England house with an extraordinary collection of antiques
By Mieke Ten Have
Martin Brudnizki's 17th-century Sussex flat decked out in colourful Christmas finery
By David Nicholls
A snug 17th-century farmhouse in the Lake District gets ready for Christmas
By Elizabeth Metcalfe
A remote Scottish farmhouse perfectly rooted in its dramatic landscape
By Virginia Clark
An abandoned cowshed in rural Spain transformed into a glorious country house
By Dominic Lutyens
An 18th-century Gloucestershire farmhouse with a simple, relaxed interior
By Elizabeth Metcalfe
An 18th-century dairy on the Dorset coast becomes an enchanting weekend retreat
By Virginia Clark
Nicola Harding's sleek and colourful design for a glorious riverside house
By Elfreda Pownall
A handsome Queen Anne house in Norfolk rejuvenated by Carlos Garcia
By Liz Elliot