For my first story of the second decade of Retro Renovation: A love story. Amy bought her grandparents’ time capsule “city” house, a place full of happy memories. Now she is making the house her own — preserving all the basics and slowly mixing the old with the new. Amy writes: Hi there – Love…

It might only have one bedroom, but this seaside cottage, in Suffolk, is famous for far more than the sea views it offers, having featured in TV show Grandpa In My Pocket

This gallery documents Joanna Francis's 1940s home at Burton Stather near Scunthorpe. Life on the home front during the 1940s was very different to today's modern world. Until war broke out in September 1939, most women did not work outside the home. Many homes did not have running water in the house, water was carried in buckets from an outside well, or perhaps some were lucky enough to have a pump inside. To produce hot water it would be heated on top of a stove, often wood burning. That…

Old Farm House In The Rain

Photo by Walter Reed

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Growing up in South Africa, designer Anelle Gandelman developed an appreciation for classical style—a style that helped her fill a Hudson Valley farmhouse with old-world charm.

Reddish House, the former Salisbury home of famed Royal and fashion photographer Cecil Beaton is now for sale - step inside