Charlotte sets a richly atmospheric tone inside a historic maison de maître near a central Brussels lake, transformed by Victoria-Maria Interior Design into a generous family apartment. Across approximately 600 square meters, the project leans into a warm, global-inflected interior style, where rust and golden hues fold into layered textiles, collected objects, and crafted details. Every room feels composed for daily life yet tuned to the character of the building.
Plantasia unfolds as a cinematic holiday house in Australia, conceived by YSG Studio for a young family seeking escape from city routine. The fictional retreat turns a cavernous 1990s mock-Colonial shell into a lush interior journey, where cork floors, wallpapers and surreal colour drench every corner. Each room carries its own mood, inviting children and adults to wander, linger and discover small scenes threaded through the home.
Private Villa stands on the hills above Castellina Marittima, Italy, where ANDstudio Architects guide the restoration of a historic house into a layered rural retreat. The project pairs renewed structure and a new pool with expressive interiors, folding contemporary art, saturated color, and generous volumes into the villa’s long, arched rooms. Visitors move through vaulted halls and bright salons that keep the building’s past in view while easing present-day country life.
House of the Lions transforms a medieval tower apartment in Siena, Italy, into a contemporary B&B with a richly tactile interior. Catoni Associati works inside the historic shell with light steel and glass structures, colored cement tiles, and a mix of vintage, classic, and contemporary furnishings. Guests move through rooms where original ceilings, brickwork, and layered surfaces stay present yet comfortably reinhabited.
1930s Victorian bungalow traces the careful reinvention of a 1935 house in Austin, United States by Side Angle Side, recasting a rundown structure as a layered family home. The architects rebuild the historic shell around salvaged millwork and generous light, while interior designer and homeowner Holly Beth Potter threads vintage finds and new finishes into a calm, lived-in rhythm. What emerges is a house that holds history close yet feels ready for everyday use.
Verandah House stands in Singapore as a compact house shaped by Mark 12 Architects around light, greenery, and a demanding urban edge. The three-level home layers courtyards, balconies, and gardens to temper the presence of a neighboring MRT station while drawing nature into daily routines. Eclectic interiors pair oriental references with contemporary lines, turning each level into a backdrop for art, gathering, and quiet work.
Wagner is a four-storey terraced house in Milan, Italy, redesigned by Lupettatelier as a private world behind a vivid red facade. Inside, British-inflected colors, a hidden garden, and an art-filled interior turn the compact footprint into a layered journey through light and memory. Each floor unfolds around a central stair, where oriental textures and collected furniture create a quiet counterpoint to the busy city outside.
Rose building stands on the riverside avenue of Vila Real de Santo António, Portugal, where Aurora Arquitectos reworks an old house into a layered interior narrative. Behind the rational facade, the project turns an eccentric private world into five independent apartments that preserve mosaics, murals, and carpentry while adding contemporary structure. Each new dwelling grows from the original rooms, so the building reads as one continuous story in five chapters.
