Chris and Neil Myers were inspired by the timeless charm of Anne of Green Gables while renovating their Edwardian home. The house is now filled with Canadian-style country ...

Classrooms aside, I can’t think of anything more appealing than a handsome antique or vintage globe. Price-wise, they suit all pockets. Although the finest, rarest examples – often of historical ...

‘I once came back from Paris with the head of an African cow from the 1920s and a ceramic parrot from the 1950s,’ says Laura Padovani. ‘I picked them up in the famous Saint-Ouen flea market, knowing ...

With its distinctive brick and flint walls and shuttered windows, this early 20th-century former fisherman’s cottage really couldn’t be anywhere other than the Pays de Caux, as its architecture is so ...

John Bly has a special place in the world of antiques. He’s been deeply charmed by fine furniture and decorative arts since he was a boy in the 1940s, and at 82 has endless stories to tell about his ...

Stepping through the sunshine-yellow front door of Phil and Kelly’s bungalow, with its sleek screed floors, elegant mid-century furniture and largely monochrome colour scheme, it’s hard to imagine ...

Every picture, vintage chandelier and rustic confit pot tells a story in the elegant London home of Amanda Grant and her husband Kristian Dean. The inspiration for its eclectic European style can be ...

When visiting the splendid Charlecote Park, the honey-coloured Warwickshire mansion that has been the Lucy family home for nearly 500 years, the American novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne proclaimed it ‘a ...

Life in the kitchen got easier in the 1950s, with the arrival of the washing machine and other appliances designed to make light work of previously gruelling tasks. To house, or maybe to hide these ...

Not many people can lay claim to writing 119 books, or establishing an international bestselling publishing brand that’s been called the ‘bible of antiques’. Yet Judith Miller’s long and illustrious ...

Rich colours and bold patterns enhance the original interiors of this one-off 1970s house, which Gillian and Richard Milner found just too unusual to resist. Feature Jane Crittenden. Photographs James ...

Uncover the world of 19th century Grand Tour sourvenirs, with its replicas of everything from Greek vases to classical sculptures. Antiques expert Lisa Lloyd explains all The Grand Tour was a right of ...