Old House New Home

Updating and inhabiting an old building brings both pleasures and challenges. How do you show off the best features of a home built for another age, while reconfiguring it for modern living? In Old House New Home, acclaimed interiors writer Ros Byam Shaw combines the expertise of designers and home owners with her own experience of renovating old properties. She looks at the many different ways we can furnish and arrange an old building to suit today's needs. Exploring properties as diverse as a small Victorian townhouse and converted country dairy, she reveals how the design of each home has been reinvented for the 21st century. The book is divided into a series of key styles, Period Piece, Urban Chic, Rustic, Recycled Spaces and Country House – although, of course, you can create rural style in the city, or take urban chic to the country. At the end of each section there are pages with ideas for furniture, lighting, fabrics, colours and finishing touches appropriate for that style and type of interior.