Country Cottages

At her farm in the Cotswolds Amanda Brooks and her husband Christopher have used reclaimed materials and furniture from a past life to turn a former piggery into a charming guest cottage. Here is how she decorates it for Christmas.

Having moved to Dorset just over year ago, designer and arist Jess Wheeler and her boyfriend Eddie Orlik have turned a rental cottage into a charming home that forms the backdrop to their creative endeavours.

Emma Sherlock's family house is a layered and lovely space filled with art and heirlooms

For this designer, his 1800s former mill workers cottage in Derbyshire became a way of navigating grief and proves that homes are as much about emotion as they are aesthetics.

Holly Vaughan of Vaughan Design and Development fulfilled a couple's country cottage dreams in this charming home, which successfully balances its history with 21st century living

Marin Montagut has something of a cult following for his signature designs, and the Normandy house where he creates them all is testament to his aesthetic

Designer Bodil Blain brings warmth and richness to a neglected outbuilding, transforming it into a warm cocoon with upholstered walls and worldly antiques

For Juana Pepa and her family, the Tudor cottage that started out as a weekend house soon proved too lovely to leave

Interior designer Kari McCabe and her architect husband Nate McBride breathed new life into their tired house using a mix of Scandinavian design, vintage pieces and inherited family furniture

Needing a weekend escape from their busy lives and stressful careers in London, designer Caroline Holdaway and her photographer partner, Fatimah Namdar, relish the peace and quiet of their eighteenth-century cottage in the Cotswolds. We revisit this story from 2019.

Returning to decorate a former client's guest cottage, Max Rollitt has filled this house with botanical references that draw on the house's history as a gardener's cottage

It's hard to believe that this 18th-century cottage was once a bland white box, such is the magic that Tattie Isles (the designer behind this year's Chelsea Flower Show Bull Ring Gate) and her husband Fred have wrought

With its charming period features and unparalleled location, interior designer Anna Hewitson has turned this unloved cottage into a beautiful family house

When Brandon's clients called him in to work on their country cottage, it was a different type of project for the interior designer, who embarked on a pure redecoration without touching any of the architecture, electrics or plumbing of the house. He details the project in his own words.

Once two keepers' cottages, this eighteenth-century, flint-and-brick house was discovered on a visit to the South Downs by the owners, who have transformed it into their ideal weekend home, furnished with salvaged finds and contemporary art. We revisit the house story from 2019.

What started off as a holiday home in need of refurbishment on the edge of the Peak District has been charmingly and thriftily transformed into a richly layered, exuberantly colourful family house by a ballerina and her antique dealer partner

In this archive story from 2020, interior designer Louise Jones's extended home combines the charm and comfort of English country-cottage style with easy access to the centre of London

For artist Rachel Bottomley, this cottage's medley of 17th-century and 1970s architecture presented an exciting creative challenge

Using earthy colours and layers of antiques and textiles, HÁM Interiors transformed this pokey cottage into a charming holiday rental

Undaunted by a tight budget and a two-week timescale, the artist turned interior designer Joshua Hale has worked wonders on his rented Oxfordshire cottage, helped by his eye for a bargain and his understanding of colour, texture and proportion