Escape Leuchie Walled Garden

An inviting combination of 200-year-old garden, modernist building and rich family history makes this an East Lothian holiday retreat with a difference

JOINED-UP THINKING

The potential of this huge lateral apartment was sorely ignored until new architect owners rethought its layout and released its promise

CLICK AND CONNECT

Bold, leftfield designs where you wouldn’t expect to find them, in tight spaces amid venerable listed buildings. Are they out of place? Do they alter the character of the established urban area for better or worse? Are they courageous or ill-conceived?

THIS life: EBI AND EMMANUEL SINTEH

The couple behind Our Lovely Goods share their story of building a business while juggling childcare and lockdown, all while making home the place we all most want to be

BALANCING ACT

Supported atop a steep embankment by the remnants of a ruined mill, this house in rural Aberdeenshire is an ingenious blend of old and new

HAPPY ALL OVER

With the world’s most beautiful hand-painted wallpapers as a backdrop, it’s no wonder this house is a generous, vibrant, maximalist masterpiece

BEHIND CLOSED DOORS: PIERRE FREY

The heritage French fabric house has harnessed the joie de vivre of Provence to inspire its latest collection

SIXTIES REVIVAL

Beyond the dated elements of this Edinburgh home was a solid house that just needed a rethink to reveal its potential

LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL

This romantic hideaway on the Italian coast is pared back to the essentials yet feels like it has all you’d ever need

ESCAPE NEWHALL MAINS

Luxurious interiors and thoughtful finishing touches make this beautifully restored mains building in the Highlands a tempting retreat

SWEDE DREAMS

Cool minimalism isn’t the only Scandi style. Welcome to a Swedish country home that embraces its rural heritage with red paint, layered textiles and deep comfort

Case Study Make A Splash

If you’ve got a swimming pool in your garden, you’re going to need a pool house. And if you’ve got a pool house, you might as well bring in the experts to make it a glamorous, luxurious place in which to hang out with the gang and generally live the dream.

MEET THE MAKER

SIMON HARLOW & LEWIS HARLEY Surface designers, Mirrl

ON TOP OF THE WORLD

Living the high life in a lush private haven in India’s smartest neighbourhood

TECHNICOLOR DREAMHOUSE

Bold, beautiful and completely unique, this Edinburgh flat’s decor is a homage to the transformative power of paint

STYLE COUNCIL

This dilapidated semi has shed its breezeblock shell and ropey DIY past to emerge as a spacious, thoughtful, well-crafted family home

WILLIAM CROZIER [1930-2011]

Part of the Soho avantgarde of the 1950s, he blossomed into a painter of rare emotional intensity

KEEP IT UNDER WRAPS

Enveloping the extension in aluminium mesh has turned a dated suburban villa into a stylish and much more contemporary home

NEW LEITH OF LIFE

The average British garden prioritises the lawn over all else. Yes, there’ll be floral borders around the edges and the odd shrub or two.

BARN AGAIN

Until very recently, this was a derelict cow byre. Now, resurrected and renovated, it has a new life as an elegant but welcoming room for entertaining

ROCK THE HOUSE

A RUINED BOTHY ON THE SHORES OF ERISKAY IS NOW A SNUG ECO-FRIENDLY HIDEAWAY WITH SUBLIME ATLANTIC VIEWS

THINK PINK

AND BLUE AND GREEN AND YELLOW: INSIDE A HOME THAT’S BUILT ON FRESH, BEAUTIFULLY BALANCED COLOUR

SMOOTH FINNISH

A COOLLY MODERN HOUSE INSPIRED BY THE ARCHITECTURE OF FINLAND’S ALVAR AALTO HAS MADE ITSELF AT HOME IN GLASGOW

THE ART OF LIVING

THE OWNERS OF THIS GLASGOW FLAT DOWNSIZED WITHOUT COMPROMISE, AND NOW HAVE A LUXE HOME THAT SPARKLES WITH PERSONALITY

THIS LIFE GEORGIE BELL

The young painter has won acclaim for her big, bold, colourful canvases. As she prepares for a new show, she tells us how she finds inspiration everywhere – including in interior design

ROCHE BOBOIS

SOFAS AT ROCHE BOBOIS are very far from being mere objects to sit on.

OUT OF THIS WORLD

Has our desire to feed and entertain family and friends at home ever been so strong? For those who long to do just that, and who have the luxury of space both indoors and out, this contemporary open-plan haven shows how it can be made to look and feel utterly seamless.

CASE STUDY ONE OF A KIND

The modern kitchen is a curious thing. Very often, the more expensive it is, the less it looks like a place to chop vegetables or wash dirty dishes.

MEET THE MAKER

Flora Collingwood-Norris Knitwear designer

BORN AGAIN

A WORN-OUT CHURCH HALL IN THE BORDERS HAS BEEN REIMAGINED AS A THOUGHTFUL, FULLY ACCESSIBLE HOME FIT FOR THE 21ST CENTURY