This summer saw the launch of my brand new interiors series ‘George Clarke’s Old House, New Home’. After making so many programmes such as ‘The Restoration Man’ and ‘George Clarke’s Amazing Spaces’ I thought it was time to make an incredible interiors series that gets under the skin of what is inside Britain’s homes. A house to me is bricks, mortar, timber, glass and roof tiles, but a home is so much more than that. A home is a magical container of spaces that we craft to reflect our own characters, a personality, it is a place that determines who we are and how we live. It is a place to love.
We have around 35 million homes in the UK and so many of them were built for a different time and different era. The way those homes were used in the past may not always work for 21st-century living and, as we know, interior styles and tastes change so much from decade to decade. Because of this, so many architectural interiors have become a complete mess, as subsequent owners have made adaptations and changes to an interior in such an ad hoc way that the house has not only lost sight of its past, but is unsure of its path for the future. But, ‘classic’ design is timeless and it’s my job to create interiors that can last a lifetime.
In his TV series ‘Old House, New Home’, George reworks period properties to make them work better for modern living
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