Emily Senior
Emily Senior is House & Garden's Houses Director and oversees the all of the homes that make their way onto the pages of the magazine and website. Emily joined the magazine as a Features Assistant, before becoming a founding editor of House & Garden's website. Having spent almost a decade as Digital Editor then Digital Director, she was the founder of the brand's Youtube channel and is the creator and producer of the popular video series Design Notes. She transitioned to Houses Director in 2023. Perennially nosy she is always on the hunt for stories that challenge our preconceived ideas of how to make a home.
Designer Meta Coleman's deeply individual house in Utah
An interior designer can let loose in their own home, in a way they can't necessarily for a client. The house in Utah that Meta Coleman shares with her artist husband and two children is a perfect example, with interiors that have evolved over 20 years into a unique expression of their love of art and travel, and her American-German upbringing
Meet House & Garden's Rising Stars for 2025
It’s always a joy to celebrate new talent. We’ve spent the past year searching out the latest batch of creatives with a bright future: these are the names to know
A surreal, unexpected and wildly imaginative interior for an east London house by Rachel Chudley
Interior designer Rachel Chudley and writer and performance artist Rachel Snider, the owner of this London house, share more than a name. Their love of fashion, art and the avant-garde is reflected in its surrealist-inspired interiors, which nonetheless work for family life.
Design Ideas
51 inspiring staircase ideas for every type of space
Modern open staircase or a grand spiral staircase? We've dug in to the archives to find some extremely stylish design ideas
Designer Bunny Turner's Oxfordshire rectory is as grand as it is comfortable
When a series of events got in the way of her initial plans, interior designer Bunny Turner decided to move from London to this former rectory in Oxfordshire, which turned out to be the perfect place for recovery and renewal.
At home in a remote Cumbrian cottage with the founder of cashmere brand Brora
When her family rescued an ailing Scottish textile factory, Brora founder Victoria Stapleton was inspired to make quality cashmere clothing with an independent spirit, which has since acquired a loyal following
Amanda Brooks' charming Cotswold guest cottage decorated for Christmas
At her farm in the Cotswolds Amanda Brooks and her husband Christopher have used reclaimed materials and furniture from a past life to turn a former piggery into a charming guest cottage. Here is how she decorates it for Christmas.
Gardens
41 stylish conservatory ideas for every kind of house
Whether you are hunting for conservatory design ideas, or just want to gaze longingly at glass houses, get inspired by these stylish structures.
Christmas Decorating
34 ways to decorate with Christmas foliage
Don't stop with the tree – draping bushels of foliage and winter plants around the house can look wonderful. Floral stylist Willow Crossley explains how to create a display with evergreens and seasonal blooms, and we've added some beautiful decorating ideas of our own.
Designer John Stefanidis has created a home with a mythic quality on the Greek island of Patmos
To celebrate the publication of his new book John Stefanidis: A Designer's Eye, House & Garden revisits the interior that was the genesis of it all, the home he created on the Greek island of Patmos
A 1920s house in Berkeley, California with an eclectic European sensibility
In a 1920s Craftsman house in Berkeley overlooking the San Francisco Bay, the American designer Heidi Caillier has drawn on an eclectic European sensibility
At home with our food editor in her historic Devon hall house
At her home in Devon, House & Garden's food editor Blanche Vaughan lives a life dictated by the rhythms of her garden and the seasonality of the produce she grows
The perfect Georgian country house of Robert Montgomery and Greta Bellamacina
The Kent home of artist Robert Montgomery and poet and actress Greta Bellamacina is a jewel box of candy colours, distinctive antiques and original artworks. The effect is irreverent and original, and provides the perfect setting for their family life and work
An unusual London mews house brought back to life by fabric designer Neisha Crosland
In a once bombed out mews in Clapham Junction the print designer Neisha Crosland and her husband have created a private arcadia drawing inspiration from ancient Rome, Paris, Venice and Madeleine Castaing
Beata Heuman brings colour, texture and softness to a contemporary London house
Known for her ability to make every room sing, Beata Heuman was the ideal choice to decorate a musician's family home. By introducing texture, colour and ingenious design details, the interior designer has softened the contemporary lines of this London house and brought the spaces to life
Living Room
33 modern living room ideas that are designed not to date
You don't need to have a home built in the last century or be slavish to a palette of pale colours to have a modern living room
The careful, characterful restoration of an 18th-century house on Patmos
Having inherited a derelict merchant's house on the Greek island of Patmos, designer Melina Blaxland-Horne and her husband Dimitri set about salvaging abandoned elements of its period interiors before embarking on a careful and characterful restoration
A 17th-century Cotswold house by Emma Burns with calm, textured interiors
Creativity runs deep in Pippa Harris’s life, work and family. This is reflected in her Cotswold house, where Emma Burns of Sibyl Colefax & John Fowler has designed calm, comfortable interiors with textures and colours that echo the film and TV producer’s array of paintings and ceramics by members of the Bloomsbury group.
Bedroom
45 spare room ideas for every kind of house
Spare room ideas to help you host your guests like a hotelier, whether you have a whole spare bedroom or a guest room that doubles as an office
The artist Natasha Mann has used her Edwardian home as a canvas for her hand-painted designs
Behind the door of an unassuming Edwardian house in London, the artist Natasha Mann has created a richly patterned world of her own design