Articles by Sarah Warwick

Turning a long, thin yard into an inviting, usable space is a design challenge many homeowners face. For this deep, narrow London backyard, designer Kate Eyre devised a curvilinear design that moves the eye from left to right to make the space feel wi…

Getting in a good eight hours of sleep promotes good health and longevity, according to Matthew Walker, founder and director of the Center for Human Sleep Science, at the University of California, Berkeley. And yet many of us are scraping by on a whol…

Homeowners Jess and Reuven Young have small children, so they needed to incorporate play equipment in their yard and have plantings that would stand up to footballs being kicked around. They wanted a space they could enjoy too. The existing yard featu…

David and Noel Dempsey had designed a kitchen for the owners of this elegant detached Edwardian house before, so when the couple decided to extend the London home, relocating the kitchen to a new open-plan space that also included dining and living ar…

This London yard had to pack a lot into a small footprint. It needed to be an outdoor living space and, since it’s in front of a refurbished carriage house, it needed to make an impression as an entrance too. It also had to accommodate the car and tra…

Swapping a cold and leaking conservatory for a wraparound addition gave the owners of this house in southeastern England the chance to create a stylish kitchen. But the addition doesn’t fulfill only an avid cook’s dream — it also has light-filled dini…

Swapping a cold and leaking conservatory for a wraparound addition gave the owners of this house in southeastern England the chance to create a stylish kitchen. But the addition doesn’t fulfill only an avid cook’s dream — it also has light-filled dini…

Swapping a cold and leaking conservatory for a wraparound addition gave the owners of this house in southeastern England the chance to create a stylish kitchen. But the addition doesn’t only fulfill an avid cook’s dream — it also has light-filled dini…

Interior designer Yoko Kloeden’s expanded cottage accommodated her family of four, but when four became five, upsizing was imperative. They moved to a semidetached Victorian house in London that wasn’t in great shape — the exterior was covered with iv…

The new owners of this 100-year-old detached cottage on the Cornish coast of England wanted interior designer Tanya Leech to create an open cooking, dining and living space and just refresh the rest of the house. But since additions to the original ho…