Articles by Lara Sargent
Houzz Tour: A 1960s House Gets an Update for 21st-Century Living (19 photos)
When Carol Pitcher-Towner and her husband, Cris Towner, were looking for a new home, they were thrilled to get their hands on a 1960s Span house. Named after the development company co-founded by renowned British designer and architect Eric Lyons in 1…
Houzz Tour: A 1960s House Gets an Update for 21st-Century Living (19 photos)
When Carol Pitcher-Towner and her husband, Cris Towner, were looking for a new home, they were thrilled to get their hands on a 1960s Span house. Named after the development company co-founded by renowned British designer and architect Eric Lyons in 1…
An Open-Plan Kitchen in a Converted Scottish Barn (12 photos)
Designing a kitchen for a professional chef perhaps presents a more daunting task than usual, particularly when the space is an ancient Scottish barn that needs to be gutted and rebuilt almost from scratch. “The owners were renovating the old barn and incorporating it into the farmhouse to give them…
An Open-Plan Kitchen in a Converted Scottish Barn (12 photos)
Designing a kitchen for a professional chef perhaps presents a more daunting task than usual, particularly when the space is an ancient Scottish barn that needs to be gutted and rebuilt almost from scratch. “The owners were renovating the old barn and incorporating it into the farmhouse to give them…
An Open-Plan Kitchen in a Converted Scottish Barn (12 photos)
Designing a kitchen for a professional chef perhaps presents a more daunting task than usual, particularly when the space is an ancient Scottish barn that needs to be gutted and rebuilt almost from scratch. “The owners were renovating the old barn and incorporating it into the farmhouse to give them…
An Industrial-Chic Family Kitchen in Navy and White (17 photos)
Achieving this navy-blue kitchen wasn’t smooth sailing for this British family. The original was over 20 years old and in an addition that had to be demolished. The homeowner, who has experience in property development, took on the project of building a new addition and called in Jamie Blake to design…
Houzz Tour: 3-Story 1970s House Gets a Cheerful Update (18 photos)
Not long after moving in, the owners of this three-story, 1970s home in London realized that it wasn’t set up for family life. “It was built in the late 1970s in a neo-Georgian style to replace a house that was destroyed in World War II,” says interior designer Lindsey Roberts, who was brought on board…
Houzz Tour: Candy Hues Meet Industrial Chic in a London Loft (24 photos)
When self-confessed color addict and former shoe designer Cleo Barbour bought her warehouse apartment, it had an extremely minimalist look that was the complete opposite of her style. “It was very much a 1990s bachelor pad,” says James Owen Webster, architectural designer at Alexander Owen Architecture,…
Old Meets New in a Restored English Farmhouse Kitchen (7 photos)
When the owners of this 18th-century English farmhouse set about turning the uninhabitable building into a home, they knew that challenges lay ahead. But when it came to designing their new kitchen, the original beams, the sloping ceilings, and the di…