Grace McCloud

2 months ago | worldofinteriors.com | Grace McCloud

When it comes to renovation, as all too many know, the relationship between client, architect and interior designer can be a fraught one, a tense and wretched triangle, within which mismatched priorities lead to embittered disputes (and worse). Three’s a crowd, in other words. But for a happy few – Orlando Leopard, Carlos Sanchez and Elliot Barnes among them – it’s the magic number.

Jan 7, 2025 | houseandgarden.co.uk | Grace McCloud

Her eye for a gem was also what landed Georgie this flat. It was one of the first places that she and her partner Olly viewed when considering a move in 2021. 'I fell in love with the scale of it,' she says. 'It's like a house in the sky.' On the second floor of a tall townhouse and wending into the loft space, its views of a zigzagging tessellation of London roofs and of Arsenal's Emirates stadium are staggering. 'On match day, it's buzzing,' says Georgie. Olly has a season ticket.

Apr 2, 2024 | houseandgarden.co.uk | Grace McCloud

Until not so long ago, there were some stocky-looking 19th-century stables here, once part of a small estate, which had been converted during the 1950s into an unbeautiful but perfectly polite bungalow. ‘It was intriguing to me that whoever designed the previous building didn’t rate that seaward outlook,’ says the owner, pointing out that the structure was not even positioned in the best patch. ‘Instead, they had ruined what was clearly a lovely, peaceful place,’ she adds.

Jan 27, 2024 | worldofinteriors.com | Grace McCloud

It is not always easy, with Lotte Glob’s ceramics, to know what you’re looking at. Like so many things in the natural world, they are rich and strange – and most likely to be found outside: sightless orbs with cloven feet hidden in heather; craggy dish-like sculptures, rockpool centres puddled with blue; a book (or is it?), its pages ossified, lodged in a stony crevice in the Sculpture Croft, her home on the edges of Loch Eriboll, near Durness in northern Scotland.

Dec 4, 2023 | houseandgarden.co.uk | Grace McCloud

Nick knows a thing or two about striking exactly that balance, having done so beautifully at Green House, the winner of RIBA’s House of the Year 2023 award. Designed by Hayhurst & Co, the quietly radical new build is an open-plan and open-minded rethinking of the typical terraced dwelling, one that feels all the more surprising given its confined setting: an unassuming residential alley in Tottenham, north London.