Articles by Jo Froude

Much care went into making this addition compatible with the original 1930s house, since it’s in a conservation area in England. But it also needed to grow with a family — one minute, little ones need constant watching, and the next, teens are demanding privacy. When architect Kieran Hawkins set about…

When Anna Burles and her business partner and husband, Chris Trotman, bought this house, they weren’t expecting it to become their home. As the owners of Run for the Hills, they specialize in commercial and residential developments, and they thought they’d fix up this property and sell it….

When Anna Burles and her business partner and husband, Chris Trotman, bought this house, they weren’t expecting it to become their home. As the owners of Run for the Hills, they specialize in commercial and residential developments, and they thought they’d fix up this property and sell it….

Most garden design involves rethinking a space that doesn’t work. But when landscape architect Stefano Marinaz was asked to come up with ideas for a small walled plot behind a new-build home in London’s Chelsea area, his starting point was an uninspiring drawing. “There was already a design for the project,…

After a hectic day of work or travel, this home away from home provides the perfect crash pad for its busy owner. Based in Holland, he spends a night or two in London every week and wanted somewhere simple that would also appeal to his family. “He’d owned the apartment for a few years, but his wife found…

Garden designer Kate Gould is passionate about turning our cities green. And, as her gold-medal-winning creation for the recent Royal Horticultural Society Chelsea Flower Show 2017 in London proves, you don’t need a huge space to make a big difference. The three-story…

When you cook for a crowd, you need space, a practical layout and appliances that can take the heat. Fortunately, as this London family kitchen proves, you don’t have to sacrifice style for functionality. The large room is designed for both serious cooking and full-on family life — with a spacious island…

“You don’t always have to rip a place apart to transform it,” says designer and serial miracle worker Ebba Thott. The co-owner of Sigmar, a London firm specializing in 20th-century design, was asked by the owners of this converted 1908 courthouse to help turn their cavernous apartment into…

Creating this family home was, to put it mildly, a long-term project. When Emma Sims Hilditch and her husband, John, bought a derelict 18th-century schoolhouse and headmaster’s cottage more than 20 years ago, the barn wasn’t even part of the deal. “Its walls were crumbling, and it was…