25 Beautiful Homes

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25 Beautiful Homes is a magazine for readers with a sense of personal style. Aspire to your dream house and enjoy looking at other people's homes, designs and styles for inspiration.

25 Beautiful Homes

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Bring me SUNSHINE • Kate Walker has brought the Australian sunshine into her home with a bright and breezy aesthetic that is pure joy

STYLE inspiration • Dip into Kate’s breezy aesthetic that celebrates easy living and bright spaces with sunshine hues and eclectic furnishings

CREATIVE THINKING • Moving rooms around and expanding up and out turned Katherine Wightman’s Victorian terrace into a big, beautiful home for her and her family

WILD AT HEART • Jane and Anthony Hosking’s gloriously secluded home in the woods is the result of many years of hard work, creative thinking and a love of the stunning location

FINE ART • Interior designer Amy Kartheiser reimagined this home in Chicago using the family’s much-loved art collection as the starting point

Prints charming • Jess Willcox-Jones has given her 1990s home plenty of personality with an abundance of pretty patterns and colours

INSIDE OUT • Contemporary and chic, this once underused garden is now an inviting living space

Home & AWAY • Marie Storrie always feels like she is on holiday as her self-build house is set in a very majestic setting surrounded by hills and forests – and the interior is just as alluring

Little wonder • Every inch of this small city apartment has been used to the fullest by designer Omar Bhatti of Space Shack, who incorporated clever space-saving ideas like bespoke storage and pocket doors

A FRESH outlook • After selling her family home, interior designer Kristin Fine was then asked to transform the space again into an elegant retreat for its new owners

Character study • Josie and Julian Lywood breathed life back into their handsome Georgian home with warm colours and eye-catching patterns

LET THE LIGHT IN • Opening up the ground floor made room for a big and bright kitchen complete with a statement island

SUNNY SIDE UP • The creative duo behind Aptitude Studio turned a compact Portofino apartment into a fun-filled family bolthole ideal for languid summer living

Nesting instinct • The desire to start a family led Kathryn Volgin and her husband Dima to a beautiful Grade II-listed barn conversion – they’ve filled it with love and plenty of rustic charm

Midas touch • Empty-nesters called in Twinning Design to refurbish their home while preserving its identity – and what a success it has been

MATERIAL WORLD • Look close and see how design choices such as microcement walls and worktops, ribbed glass and brass detailing elevate this space

A TASTE of the east • How do you give a country barn hints of elegant Eastern style? The couple who live here after moving back from Honk Kong asked designer Emma Capron for help

Class act • Saving a 1920s apartment from brown shaggy carpet and other not so nice 1970s decor was easy for interior designer Miriam Frowein

GRAND DESIGN • Simon and Liz Niven’s new bathroom has the space, style and storage to suit the whole family

COUNTRY CALLING • When they found a cottage that used to be a toll house for a forest and had three acres of land, Victoria Garnham and her husband Andy knew it was a dream come true

Worth THE WAIT • Six years after moving into their 1930s house, Kirsty and Stuart Haslam added an ambitious extension that has given them their dream home

HOUSE WARMING • Mollie Ranize of Dmar Interiors was tasked with adding visual interest and richness to this home – the results are stunning

ALL IN THE MIX •...