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.
Revisiting Alexandra Tolstoy's enchanting cottage in the Oxfordshire countryside
By Virginia Clark
A bright and comfortable family home in the heart of Bath where old meets new
By Christabel Chubb
An 18th-century Spitalfields townhouse meticulously furnished and restored to period glory
By Thomas Barrie
A RIBA-award-winning Georgian farmhouse beautifully restored for modern life
By David Nicholls
A glorious riverside house in west London refreshed and revived by Kate Guinness
By Serena Fokschaner
How to recreate the look of this thoughtfully reconfigured Victorian townhouse
By Christabel Chubb
Joanna Plant’s west London house has been moulded by two decades of family life
By Thomas Barrie
Interior designer, ceramicist and artist Gavin Houghton's creative life in Tangier and London
By Elizabeth Metcalfe
Regency elegance with a touch of camp in a London pied-à-terre designed by Veere Grenney
By David Nicholls
An abandoned cowshed in rural Spain transformed into a glorious country house
By Dominic Lutyens
A calm and uncluttered Grecian villa brightened by a palette of soft pastel colours
By Christopher Stocks
An historic rectory in Sussex that deftly brings together the old and the new
By Claire Bingham
Rosi de Ruig's London house combines invigorating colour with a restful atmosphere
By Elizabeth Metcalfe
Olympia and Ariadne Irving bring colour and creative exuberance to a London rental
By Emily Senior
A neglected London penthouse transformed into a riot of colour and pattern
By Virginia Fraser
An 18th-century Gloucestershire farmhouse with a simple, relaxed interior
By Elizabeth Metcalfe
A former workman’s cottage in Sydney enlivened by Arent&Pyke’s particular approach to colour and materiality
By Juliette Arent and Sarah-Jane Pyke
Step inside the vintage-inspired Paris home of a French fashion designer
By Laura May Todd
Photography by Matthieu Salvaing
An interior designer's graceful Art Nouveau apartment in Stockholm
By Virginia Clark
A sophisticated Primrose Hill flat filled with carefully sourced pieces
By Elizabeth Metcalfe
Lonika Chande brings cheerful colour and much-needed practicality to a family house in Stoke Newington
By Charlotte McCaughan-Hawes
A shingled cottage in Maine inhabited by the same family for over a century
By Kathleen Hackett
Two 18th-century Norfolk cottages melded into one harmonious holiday house
By Elizabeth Metcalfe
A 17th-century Cotswold cottage with a distinctly Welsh aesthetic
By Liz Elliot
A Basque country house with a tactile interior filled with antiques and eye-catching fabrics
By Pamela Goodman
An early Victorian house in Winchester with interiors slowly built up from a series of collections
By Virginia Clark
John McCall creates a dramatic, bold house from a former civic building in London
By Elfreda Pownall
A 16th-century Italian house, restored to a glorious state by Maria Speake of Retrouvius
By David Nicholls
Life in an art-filled former palace in Italy, accessible only by foot
By Pamela Goodman
Glorious Tuscan country houses that will have you wanting to move there
By House & Garden
A once-dilapidated wreck in the glorious Tuscan countryside brought beautifully back to life
By David Nicholls