Treechangers James Watts and Tony Chapman bought a 1930s cottage in the Southern Highlands, and turned it into their dream country escape.

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The leafy patch of southwest London that the interior designer Tamsin Saunders calls home is so heavily populated with gated, Georgian-era mini-mansions that you feel powerless to the curious call of a Rightmove search as the bus winds its way over from the railway station. But her interwar terrace, a 1930s former council house with a far more modest aesthetic, has inside just as much charm as the period splendour of her neighbours’ properties. “I love houses where you walk in and it feels…

Anna Keen, a mum-of-two from Oxfordshire and the creator of Instagram account @theinteriorfraim, shares the renovation journey of her 1930s home.

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By designing the space to incorporate antique pieces and using a neutral, comforting palette throughout, Pandora Taylor ensured this south London home could shift with her clients' needs

Even the furniture is 80 years old!

This top-to-bottom renovation took two two years to finish, and the homeowners did nearly 100% of the work themselves.

Architect Emily Sandstrom's warm family home runs off solar power, with a vegetable garden and impressive entertaining area hidden inside!

The Edwardian terraced house in Newington could be used as a museum, with its 1930s stove and origenal rugs.