Houses
Open any issue of House & Garden and you'll find an edit of some of the most beautiful houses in the world. Here you can revisit many of those houses, from historic country houses to smart city flats. Whether your taste runs more to cosy country cottages or expansive new-builds, you'll find plenty to browse here, and don't miss the beautiful houses by our Top 100 Interior Designers.
Houses decorated for Christmas
Christmas in the vaulted halls of a 14th-century Scottish castle
By Charlotte Fairbairn
Historical Country Houses
Martin Brudnizki's 17th-century Sussex flat in all its Christmas glory
By David Nicholls
European Houses
A historic house on the Stockholm archipelago decorated for Christmas
By Elizabeth Metcalfe
Lifestyle
How artist Phoebe Dickinson celebrates Christmas in her Gloucestershire farmhouse
By Fiona McKenzie Johnston
Flats
Artist Michael Craig-Martin's sleek flat on the 21st floor of the Barbican
By Fiona McKenzie Johnston
Houses packed with colour
An artist's house in the Cotswolds layered with bold colours and collected pieces
By Charlotte McCaughan-Hawes
Traditional Houses
Richard E Grant's Richmond house is a wonderland of Christmas joy
By Hadley Freeman
Small houses
A maximalist Christmas at Sean Pritchard's 17th-century Somerset cottage
By Arabella BowesPhotography by Tom Griffiths
Country Cottages
Amanda Brooks' charming Cotswold guest cottage decorated for Christmas
By Emily Senior
French Houses
A designer and illustrator's quaint 19th-century cottage in the Normandy countryside
By Elizabeth Metcalfe
Country
Architect Elizabeth Roberts restores a colonial-era farmhouse in rural Connecticut
By Steven Kurutz
Houses by our Top 100 Interior Designers & Architects
A Montecito house with unexpectedly rich interiors by VSP Interiors
By Virginia Clark
Traditional Houses
A 1920s house in Berkeley, California with an eclectic European sensibility
By Emily Senior
European Houses
Designer John Stefanidis has created a home with a mythic quality on the Greek island of Patmos
By Emily Senior
Houses by the sea
The careful, characterful restoration of an 18th-century house on Patmos
By Emily Senior
London Houses
Cassandra Ellis rewrites the story of a converted schoolhouse in Battersea
By Antonia Bentel
London Houses
Octavia Dickinson transforms a Grade II-listed Georgian townhouse in Belgravia
By Busola Evans
Country
Edward Hurst brings colonial Williamsburg to a farmhouse on Guy Ritchie's Wiltshire estate
By Charlotte McCaughan-Hawes
Houses by our Top 100 Interior Designers & Architects
Henriette von Stockhausen creates elegant harmony in a grand country house
By Ros Byam Shaw
Traditional City
A classic Victorian house in Oxford with a gentle approach to colour
By Elizabeth Metcalfe
London Houses
A graphic designer takes a playful, adventurous approach to art in his London house
By Fiona McCarthy
European Houses
An antique dealer and interior designer's elegant second home in Menorca's capital
By David Nicholls
Designers' houses
Designer Bunny Turner's Oxfordshire rectory is as grand as it is comfortable
By Emily Senior
Houses decorated for Christmas
A former rectory in the West Country decorated for Christmas
By Ros Byam Shaw
Country
A handsome Georgian rectory in Hampshire with contemporary country interiors by Tamsyn Mason
By Charlotte McCaughan-Hawes
Houses
An elegant Regency house in Marylebone with a soft, light-filled interior by Anahita Rigby
By Antonia Bentel
London Houses
A London flat transformed by Schumacher's chameleon European CEO Benni Frowein
By David Nicholls