Country Cottages

At her farm in the Cotswolds Amanda Brooks and her husband Christopher have used reclaimed materials and furniture from a past life to turn a former piggery into a charming guest cottage. Here is how she decorates it for Christmas.

Deep in the Mendip Hills, garden designer Sean Pritchard has turned a labourer's dwelling into a charming home

Emma Sherlock's family house is a layered and lovely space filled with art and heirlooms

Marin Montagut has something of a cult following for his signature designs, and the Normandy house where he creates them all is testament to his aesthetic

Interior designer Kari McCabe and her architect husband Nate McBride breathed new life into their tired house using a mix of Scandinavian design, vintage pieces and inherited family furniture

In an idyllic corner of Sussex, Milli Proust and Ted Dwane are pursuing their twin passions of floristry and cider making, growing their own cut flowers and apples in several meadows around their 17th-century cottage

Designer Bodil Blain brings warmth and richness to a neglected outbuilding, transforming it into a warm cocoon with upholstered walls and worldly antiques

Some eye-catching interior design alchemy by Nadine Finnegan has transformed a charming old Oxfordshire property into a colourful and characterful family home

With its charming period features and unparalleled location, interior designer Anna Hewitson has turned this unloved cottage into a beautiful family house

When Brandon's clients called him in to work on their country cottage, it was a different type of project for the interior designer, who embarked on a pure redecoration without touching any of the architecture, electrics or plumbing of the house. He details the project in his own words.

20 years of owning this fairytale cottage have made it into a beguiling blend of perfectly preserved English tradition and Central Asian colour and pattern

Tasked with combining two 18th-century cottages to create a coherent property, architect Kathryn Manning devised a contemporary extension to join them, while designer Anna Haines introduced a harmonious mix of colours, set off by antique and bespoke furniture

Antiques dealer Adam Bentley took on the 17th-century stone cottage adjoining his childhood home in West Yorkshire almost 20 years ago, sensitively and thoroughly overhauling it before filling it with an ever-changing mix of pieces

With her signature approach to layering and clever use of colour, Lucy Cunningham has injected personality into her idyllic cottage

Having found this tiny cottage in Oxfordshire five years ago, Victoria Barker has reversed the effects of a characterless renovation to create an irresistibly pretty interior

Drawn to this cottage in the Cotswolds by the charming additions made by its previous interior-designer owner, the current custodian was keen to make her own mark with a sympathetic extension and interiors that reflect elements of her life in Portugal and her Scandinavian roots

For the owners of a lighting company Urban Electric, home is Charleston but their weekend cottage is where the heart is. With the help of Kate Towill of Basic Projects, they've created a charming retreat

No ordinary restoration project, this previously neglected 18th-century cottage in the Yorkshire Dales has been turned into a living canvas and rural retreat by its artist owner Kitty North and her friend Robin Lucas

The cottage has been gradually reconfigured over the past 30 years by a creative couple to provide a versatile home, cleverly adapted to accommodate their evolving work and family requirements

Ceramicist Steve Harrison works from pared-back studios in London and Wales, where minimal concessions to modern life create the conditions that ground him