This title offers an in-depth focus on seven recent renovations of a most diverse range of properties, including the complete restoration and redesignation of an impressive country estate and park garden, the metamorphosis of one of the most authenti c castles in the Dordogne (dating from 1453), the redesign of an apartment in a distinctive residence in the historic centre of Brussels, the conscientious restoration of a sculptors studio in modernist style, the revival of a 19th century castle, t he soft renovation of a nineteenth-century courtyard farm and the contemporary transformation of a historic windmill.