Rik and Lindsey spent years eyeing up an 8-acre woodland clearing on family land near Hastings before building Looking Glass Lodge - a self-tinting glass retreat raised on 22 screw piles to avoid disturbing a single tree root. What began as a single-bedroom shepherd's hut idea became a RIBA award-winning lodge, built around an ancient redwood and a planning process that ended up taking longer than the build itself.

Andy bought a derelict 14-acre dairy farm near Southwold at auction in 2015. What followed was a stunning self-build that transformed the central farmyard into a stunning five-bedroom contemporary home: three barn forms, a glass entrance hall framing the Suffolk countryside, a 6.5-metre apex kitchen, a sunken garden, and a ground source heated home that barely announces itself from the road.

When interior architect Marta Nowicka purchased a derelict St. John Ambulance station in the heart of medieval Rye in 2014, it had stood empty for two years. What followed was a deeply considered conversion — a home clad in locally sourced pan tiles, planned around a central hearth in the tradition of the medieval hall, and filled with details made by hand from the landscape around it. This is the story of how a forgotten building became one of East Sussex's most remarkable homes.