What do you do with a redundant 1860s mission church in the heart of the Cotswolds? If you're the owner of this remarkable property, you convert it into one of the most characterful homes in the region — preserving the original stone walls, lancet windows, and soaring ceiling height while building an entirely contemporary life inside.

Most people look at a decommissioned 1960s Brutalist water tower and see a problem. The owners of Tonwell Tower looked at it and saw a home. The result of that vision is one of the most extraordinary domestic conversions in the UK — a cylindrical, raw-concrete structure transformed into a striking, liveable family home in the Hertfordshire countryside.

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.

Interior architect Marta Nowicka transformed a 19th-century Edwardian warehouse in the heart of Clerkenwell into one of London's most compelling residential conversions — a home where the industrial bones of the building are not just preserved but celebrated, with exposed brick, original timber, and double-height volumes that no conventional property could replicate.