Tales of the City

Most buildings spend their lives fighting the weather. A small number are designed to be finished by it. This autumn, Story of Home is listing three London houses wrapped in Corten steel, the russet, velvety metal that rusts on purpose and then stops. From coal wagons to the Angel of the North Corten is a […]

For Open House Festival 2026, Story of Home presents a collection of ten remarkable London homes: places shaped not only by architecture, but by the people, histories and everyday rituals within them. There is a particular thrill in crossing the threshold of a home that is normally private. The front door closes behind us, the […]

Hampstead village is one of the most affluent areas in London and despite its quintessential English appeal, its international residents give the area a wonderful cosmopolitan flavour. Thanks to its chalybeate spring waters, Hampstead gained notoriety as a London spa in the 17th century. Expansion followed with the railway (Hampstead Village is connected to the […]

Natural light is more than a design feature – it is an element of our homes that shapes how it feels, functions, and even how we feel within it. As sunlight moves through a space in different way over the course of a day, it softens edges, reveals textures, and brings a sense of rhythm […]

“Someone said to us, it’s like an artwork as opposed to a home because it’s such a one-off,” says management consultant Jo Lucas, neatly summing up the house in Kew she shares with her husband Tim, in a nutshell. “It’s somewhere that inspires a huge level of creativity and imagination; it allows for big ambition.” […]

The City Within a City. Parallels are often drawn between Hackney and downtown Manhattan, based on a shared experience of warehouse conversion-led gentrification. But we think that comparison misses the point. Did you know that if you were to classify the five New York City boroughs as individual cities, Brooklyn would be the third-most populous city in America, after […]