A practical guide to restoring Victorian houses for modern life and living with history in a way that makes sense now ...

‘We originally mocked up the design as two fitted runs of furniture with the sink on the small kitchen island, however, this felt slightly too modern a kitchen layout for this Victorian property ...

A vast Victorian table in the centre of the room ... would have talked a lot about what was being grown in the kitchen gardens. "All sorts of crops - peaches, cherries, pineapples, apples and ...