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Traditional Houses

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

Historic Homes

Inside Radbourne Hall, one of the last remaining John Fowler interiors

By Hatta Byng

Traditional Houses

At home with Argentine food writer Juana Pepa as she prepares for an abundant Easter

By Arabella Bowes

Country

An interior designer's 17th-century farmhouse in a secluded Devon valley

By Virginia Clark

Houses

A graceful Georgian rectory set in five acres of gentle Gloucestershire landscape

By Thomas Barrie

Cottages

A deep respect for the past is evident in the London home and Welsh cottage of potter Steve Harrison

By Charlotte McCaughan-Hawes

Photography by Owen Gale

Country Cottages

An interior designer's Welsh cottage, inventively furnished with second-hand finds

By Elfreda Pownall

Country

From the archive: inside Bowood, the epitome of an 18th-century English country house (2016)

By Virginia Fraser

Cottages

A 16th-century Herefordshire cottage filled with collected treasures

By Elizabeth Metcalfe

Houses

Playfulness and practicality mingle in a London house by Lucy Hammond Giles

By David Nicholls

American Houses

A quintessential New England house with an extraordinary collection of antiques

By Mieke Ten Have

Houses by our Top 100 Interior Designers & Architects

A handsome Queen Anne house in Norfolk rejuvenated by Carlos Garcia

By Liz Elliot

Welsh houses and gardens for St David's Day

A rare and remote 18th-century Carmarthenshire cottage restored to its authentic form

By Kerryn Harper-Cuss

Country

An 18th-century house in the Cotswolds cleverly refreshed by Flora Soames

By Liz Elliot

Houses decorated for Christmas

A sensitively restored Regency house elegantly decorated for Christmas

By Ros Byam Shaw

Houses decorated for Christmas

A perfect English country house brought alive for Christmas entertaining

By Christopher Stocks

Houses decorated for Christmas

Christmas with Skye McAlpine in a romantic Venetian palazzo

By Virginia Clark

Traditional Houses

Christmas with Luke Edward Hall and Duncan Campbell in their Cotswold cottage

By Charlotte McCaughan-Hawes

Photography by Mark Fox

Houses decorated for Christmas

A Victorian house in the West Country gracefully decorated for Christmas

By Ros Byam Shaw

London Houses

A Victorian terrace in London with the layered, comfortable feel of a country house

By Elizabeth Metcalfe

Traditional Country

At home with Penelope Chilvers in her romantic Cotswold house

By Ticky Hedley-Dent