Cottages

Once upon a time this house is said to have inspired the story of Alice in Wonderland. Now a new chapter is being written by the film director, producer and podcaster Chris Sweeney, who has turned it into a warm, welcoming and whimsical family home

Tamsin Saunders of design studio Home & Found has transformed a once-neglected cottage in south-west London into a deeply personal home shaped by instinct, memory and the shifting colours of the garden

Humble dwellings that are big on style, from country boltholes to urban escapes, our HG101 designers have done it all

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

With ingenuity and thoughtful design, Laura and Gracy Berkeley Hawkes have transformed a nondescript 1990s outbuilding in Laura’s garden into a fully equipped cottage, proving that even a modest footprint can capture the essence of country living.

The Cotswold cottage of designer Emma Grant has provided her with the ideal opportunity to weave her extensive collection of antique textiles into the interiors of an atmospheric and characterful home

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

Returning to decorate a former client's guest cottage, Max Rollitt has filled this house with botanical references that draw on the house's history as a gardener's cottage

Together with her husband, Camilla Fitz-Patrick has transformed this previously sterile cottage into a warm and welcoming place to live

Leaving London for the Sussex countryside, Anna Phillips and her husband Jeff Kightly transformed this unremarkable Victorian cottage into a characterful family home, painting it in organic, earthy colours and adding layers of interest

With his keen eye for interesting colour combinations, Russell Loughlan has transformed his Deal house into a joyful place to live

Dorian Bowen’s sensitive restoration of a dilapidated 18^th-century hand-built rural farmstead acts as a living testimony to age-old Welsh architecture and simpler times

Ted and Olivia Morrison have feathered their country bolthole with ‘critical non-essentials’, making it perfect for weekend house parties

For this designer, his 1800s former mill workers cottage in Derbyshire became a way of navigating grief and proves that homes are as much about emotion as they are aesthetics.

Narrative is everything for stylist and colour consultant Fiona de Lys, whose atmospheric 18th-century cottage in north London has been intuitively decorated with evocative hues, art and antiques that transport her to places from her past

Holly Vaughan of Vaughan Design and Development fulfilled a couple's country cottage dreams in this charming home, which successfully balances its history with 21st century living

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

Ben Pentreath has created a masterclass in mixing colour and pattern at this diminutive early Georgian cottage in Highgate

It's hard to believe that this 18th-century cottage was once a bland white box, such is the magic that Tattie Isles (the designer behind this year's Chelsea Flower Show Bull Ring Gate) and her husband Fred have wrought

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.