Grace McCloud

Having reconfigured the layout of her small London flat, Lyndsey Ingram knew that every item – from etchings to ceramics – needed to earn its place. Now, there is a work of art wherever the eye rests

Scotland’s ancestral houses are no longer the preserve of just the aristocracy. Grace McCloud opens the door on Penicuik, where the former stables have been sensitively restored along with cottages on the estate to create smart rentals

From the large windows that connect indoors and out to living roofs that blend with the surrounding fields, architect Alex Michaelis has designed Leaf House in Gloucestershire to be at one with its wooded landscape

The neglected villa has been given wonderfully whimsical interiors by its Spanish owner Marta de la Rica

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

Rollo Dunford Wood and Freyja Lee's family home in Wales is an enchanted place, where she crafts folklore-inspired ceramics and he restores wagons and builds cabins surrounded by the beautiful ancient countryside

Adam Weismann explains how his passion for natural materials led him and his wife Katy Bryce to create clay plasters in Cornwall

The London flat of interior designer and dealer Georgie Stogdon illustrates her pared-back aesthetic and balanced approach to budgeting, which meant she was able to splash out on a few key areas, including a spectacular new staircase

Seeking to create a house worthy of this extraordinary marshland site on the Isle of Wight, the owner was in no doubt that architect Níall McLaughlin was the ideal person for the job. His emphasis on the feeling of a space rather than on any particular style has resulted in a spectacular design

Hayhurst & Co's sustainable design for the Green House in Tottenham wins RIBA’s 2023 House of the Year