An Antiques Dealer Old Town House and Shop in Santanyi Mallorca

Mallorca is a popular tourist destination and an island where Northern Europeans have bought farmhouses (lincas) for decades. There is an established year-round community and there are many artist and craftspeople working in the towns and villages.
This is not a holiday home but a very old town house in Santanyi, which serves as home and [...]

Exotic Agrarian Country House in the Paarl Valley

The owner of this exotic country house was determined to build it after succumbing to the beauty of the Cape province during a holiday. Two friends, both New York-based architects, came up with a design that echoed an agricultural vernacular, though was far removed from the familiar white-gabled Cape Dutch homesteads of earlier generations.
Set above [...]

Caribbean Style “The Ginger Bread” House Design in StLucia

Many British colonist, builders and architects adapted prevailing Victorian fashions into homes far removed from ‘dear old England’.Nostalgia played a large part in colonial architecture around the world, from the Caribbean to Australia and NewZealand.
In St Lucia particularly, the ‘Gingerbread’ house – All lacy fretwork verandas, barge-boards and railings – became the traditional style. This [...]

Australian Colonial Architecture Style House in a Farm Dam Zimbabwe

When it came to building this new house, surrounded by lush lawns and eucalyptus plantations beside a farm dam in Zimbabwe, the owners were inspired by Australian colonial architecture.
With no planning restrictions and an ample supply of home-produced bricks and building timbers, the design could be virtually anything they wanted.They decided on a building only [...]

A Holiday Old Village Coffee-House in Northern Cyprus

A designer and painter choose Northern Cyprus as the ideal location for his holiday home. Formerly the old village coffee-house, this is a handsome building, brought back to life and once again in harmony with the island landscape. Rather than tackle the restoration all at once, it is an evolving process, the allotted annual works [...]

Oxfordshire Country House in Oriental Decoration Touch

A busy couple who work in London during the week but retreat to an Oxford-shire country house at weekends have created a town house that is a perfect antidote to their high-speed city lives. The house was bought, in part, for its garden, so that three terriers could happily commute with their owners. The property [...]

Eccentric Nineteenth-century Four-Storey House Design

Being a collector can sometimes feel like a burden. To begin with, it can be difficult to find homes for an ever-growing number of items, whether cahors, bowls, fossils or rugs. One man’s solution has been virtually to give over his entire early nineteenth-century house to a sometimes eccentric but always inspiring collection of objects. [...]

Classic Eclectic Style Red-Brick Houses Near River Thames London

There is an enclave of wonderfully preserved red-brick houses near the River Thames in Chis wick, west London. Narrow streets lead to the river in an area that was much favored by eighteenth-century merchants and traders, many of whose homes have survived in a surprisingly cohesive group. The twentieth century, though, was a time when [...]

Contemporary Eclectic Interior House near Holf Germany

The owner of this house near Holf in Germany was fortunate enough to be able to build virtually anything he wanted. His business, the manufacture of luxurious textiles for an international clientèle, is housed in immaculate premises in the rural and agricultural district where he now lives. His quirky collections of chairs and sofas are [...]

Elegant Luxury Victorian Modern House in Belgravia London

Elegant but conventional facade of a four-storey Victorian town house in Belgravia, London. The office is set up as a ’smart home’, and global, top-name brands were used for the kitchen, sound systems, lighting, and entertainment.