These are your 5 most-loved house tours from 2018 – and they are winners!
It's hard to pick a favourite house tour, but you did, and these are your top 5 real homes of 2018!
Real homes
Step inside beautiful real homes from around the world with our house tours. From chocolate box cottages in the Cotswolds to super-sleek modern homes in the capital, we go behind the front door of houses up and down the country, and find out how the owners and renters created their dream homes, whatever their style and budget.
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Explore this enchanting timber-framed new build in a Surrey conservation area
Unable to find their forever home, this couple built their own oak-framed cottage, complete with an eclectic interior
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Credit: Colin Poole Be inspired by this Scandi-style Seventies end-of-terrace rental in Middlesbrough
This owner spent time, rather than money, turning an unloved rental into a beautiful, Scandi-inspired family home
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Credit: Colin Poole Step inside this elegant and restful three-bed 1950s semi in Kent
The owner has used a palette of soft neutrals to create a soothing mood that offsets the stresses of daily life
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Credit: Katie Lee Have a look around this scandi-minimalist warehouse apartment in Manchester
A converted cardboard factory presented these owners with a blank canvas
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Image credit: Polly Eltes Credit: Polly Eltes Fall in love with this idyllic weatherboard farmhouse – perfect for a family Christmas
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Credit: Colin Poole Have a look around this country-style Thirties rented cottage in Norfolk
Undaunted by the limitations of renting when it came to personalising their home, this family got creative to give it style…
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Credit: Katie Lee Take a tour of this pretty four-bedroom Yorkshire stone detached house, built in 1921
The owners used a clever spectrum of soft colours for a calm-feeling home
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Credit: David Parmiter Have a look around this Scandi-style Eighties house in Oxfordshire
Vision, skills and talent turn a bland property into a stylish, Scandi-influenced home
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Image credit: Polly Eltes Credit: Polly Eltes Take a turn around this newly renovated medieval cottage in East Sussex
A Grade II-listed three-bay medieval cottage that was once an old forge. It has four bedrooms
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Image credit: Polly Eltes Credit: Polly Eltes Step inside this rustic dream home on the edge of a forest in East Sussex
A country house with four bedrooms, built in the 1930s using materials reclaimed from older houses
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Credit: Georgia Burns Have a look around this bold and colourful 1930s semi in Leicestershire
The owner of this Thirties semi hadn’t counted on the amount of work it would need…
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Credit: David Giles Have a look around this fun and colourful 1920s family home in London
The owner of this London home drew on her Dutch roots
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Credit: Philip Lauterbach Take a look around this Scandi-boho three-bed semi in Belfast
These owners had plans to extend and put a Scandi stamp on the place
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Credit: Olly Gordon Take a tour of this vintage-inspired Victorian terrace in Lancashire
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Credit: Colin Poole Take a peek inside this modern monochrome home in Hertfordshire
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Image credit: Jeremy Phillips Credit: Jeremy Phillips Have a look around this calm and cosy terraced home in Durham
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Credit: James French Take a tour around this light and bright Scandi-style new build in Glasgow
The owners of this new build turned it from a uniform modern house into a spacious home
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Image credit: Polly Eltes Credit: Polly Eltes Step inside this 300-year-old Cotswold property that was originally two separate dwellings
The owners knocked together two dark period cottages to create a country home with a contemporary feel
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Credit: David Giles Be inspired by this Edwardian semi in Essex, brought to life with pops of colour
This homeowner’s property woes were solved by a workmate, who had heard that she was desperate to move
