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Readers' Homes
With a limited budget to transform a dark cottage, Caroline and Anthony Borgman learned new skills, including carpentry, plumbing and decorative arts. Their charming home is filled with handmade touches and bargain buys from auction houses and online.
Jonathan McCree and his wife Claire Gordon used their artistic skills to renovate and decorate this individual Victorian home, creating an eclectic space decorated with bright colours, vintage furniture and handmade items.
Over four years, Virginia Dowd painstakingly transformed a ruined stone barn in County Kilkenny. It’s now a home full of character with exposed ceiling beams, an open stone fireplace and gothic style windows.
Readers' Kitchens
Vanessa and Steve Price won Best Period Kitchen in our Readers’ Homes Awards 2008 for the canny way they created a charming country kitchen in their 19th century period cottage on a shoestring. Solid wood worktops, enamelware and blue-and-white Cornishware all add to the room's rustic feel.
Claire and Mark Porter have redesigned their kitchen to suit the character of their 200-year-old North Yorkshire farmhouse. Exposed beams and a traditional Aga cooker make the kitchen rustic and functional. Their efforts earned this room makeover the title of Best Kitchen in our Readers’ Awards 2009.
A touch of elegance: Sara and David Parr created a kitchen to suit the scale of their Victorian vicarage. The couple knocked two reception rooms into one to create a single expansive space; it won Best Room Makeover and Readers’ Choice in our Readers’ Awards 2010
Readers' Bathrooms
Joanne and Andy Ross’s bathroom makeover required patience, commitment, scaffolding – and a forklift truck; no wonder it won the title of Best Bathroom in our Readers’ Awards 2009. The bathroom includes an Albert basin and stand teamed with Victorian taps and a reclaimed roll top and is decorated in shades of white and blue to create a light and airy feel.
Jane and Paul Kitching’s Georgian rectory has been brought deftly up to date with a thorough renovation, an appealing colour palette and period furnishings.
Andy and Denise Ward’s first hands-on period renovation won their home recognition as Best Townhouse in our Readers’ Homes Awards 2008. Their bathroom makeover was designed on a budget with many high-street bargains.
