Storm, floods and fires have shifted the balance of risk and reward for many. Yet, even in the face of spiralling insurance and falling house values, our emotional and cultural ties have a high premium
Andrew Jonathan Griffiths, director of A New Day interior design studio, tackles the perennial problem of how to keep things handy but hidden
When the Rosboroughs temporarily relocated from New York to the Dutch city, they found a historic home that persuaded them not only to stay, but to restore its heritage character
A new book illustrates that far from being pastoral fantasies wasting land, money and energy, they are a valuable cultural export, part of the country’s enduring soft power
Faye Toogood spent years eliminating any hint of softness or decoration from her work. But the emotional can be female designers’ greatest power
The horticultural pioneers are co-curating an art exhibition in London that spotlights the transformative power of soil, fires up biodiversity activism and unites ‘the rigour of science and the awe of beauty’
A century after it was born at the Paris Exposition of 1925, the design style is up for review
Once the stuff of crime thrillers and haunts of secret agents, these storied homes tucked down cobblestone streets continue to have an idiosyncratic allure
Sea air, quirky shops and an arty vibe: our selection includes a five-bedroom Regency-style town house and a beachfront house once owned by British playwright Terence Rattigan
The social reformer and industrial innovator called his utopian cotton mill village ‘an experiment in human happiness’
Going through possessions left behind is heartbreaking — and bewildering. What is precious? What is rubbish? And when the professionals become involved, can the items hope for new life?
Through a lifetime of projects in his home city of Philadelphia the designer never stopped working on his own innovative sanctuary
Victorian meets modern at the architect’s home in south-west London. But nothing interrupts its flow
It is wise to acknowledge their deep understanding of nature and the elements
The author and publisher on lie-ins, pink lipstick and why we’re living in a Kafkaesque world
Buyers urged to beware of an ownership sector that remains wide open to abuse
The influx of ultra-rich expats is putting pressure on the lifestyles of the merely wealthy
Step inside the homes of some of the world’s most illustrious writers, artists and other historical personalities — and see how interiors can reveal interior lives
The chilly temperatures that now make this Swiss region a hotspot for winter sports helped mould the design of these very particular stone buildings
Digital garden planning programmes can be useful tools, but they can’t replace human imagination, experience — and the instinct to go rogue
Often the smallest and most mundane space in a home, contemporary interpretations are going big on the flamboyant, quirky — or simply wild
Fill your room with a celestial glow
For our last ever episode, Lilah answers listener questions with our top FT critics, columnists and experts about music, cooking, careers and more
Ski-friendly and waterfront finds, from an Arts & Crafts-style house with its own skating rink to a modern Malibu-inspired estate
The Channel Island’s low-tax appeal has long added to the glow of its more bucolic charms, but with UK fiscal changes agents are seeing an uptick in interest from would-be relocators. And the high-end properties are there for the buying
Inside the jigsaw-like Essex cottage the sculptor shares with his ceramicist wife and painter daughter, countless curios paint a picture of how a bird-keeper became an artist collected by museums and royals
Make your rooms glow with these diaphanous beauties
Civil servant Khadambi Asalache transformed his unassuming terraced house into a carved wood fantasy with intricate fretwork to rival the most elaborate cathedral or mosque
What to see at Paris Déco Off, the city’s fabric and furnishings festival
Four army reservists and a Royal Navy NCO are leading an experimental project to provide flat-pack plant kits to those living in areas of climate and humanitarian disaster
Its fearsome proprietor dispossessed, the Victorian house would be a multistorey playground that any flat-dweller would relish
As a programme of exchanges between global heritage sites and the UK’s National Trust properties draws to a close, horticulturists are swapping mitigating tactics for combatting climate change
Mirrors, vases, screens – all are available with a classical twist
At the centre of a new exhibition, the Memphis Group member’s toylike piece explores the rituals of tea and addresses ‘a dire lack of the delightful’
Personal mood lies at the heart of how we perceive gardens, as the National Gallery’s exhibition of the Dutch artist’s work illuminates
Their global number has risen more than 50 per cent in a decade. With UK private education now subject to VAT, more parents seeking a lifestyle shift are drawn to the neighbourhood hotspots forming in their orbit
They don’t have vinyl’s cool sophistication, and streaming is so much easier to manage. So why can’t I let go of these echoes of a former life?
