Snooping around: Interior designed homes

Property of the week: Kalkan, Turkey. The winter cold and credit crunch will vaporise as you relax in this three-bedder complete with infinity pool. Sliding glass doors merge the living area with the pool terrace, from where there are aerial views over the Turquoise Coast. Two of the bedrooms have balconies overlooking the sea, which is 15 minutes away. Kalkan is a handsome, classy resort that cascades down steep hills to the waterfront. Yours for £235,000.
Spot Blue, 020 8339 6036 Photograph: Spot Blue/Spot Blue

Wreck of the week: Purley, Berkshire. This two-bedroom cottage is uninhabitable. Around £60,000 should replace the timbers, install a bathroom and kitchen, and upgrade the wiring. There is also permission for two extra bedrooms and a kitchen/breakfast room, which would be another £100,000. That's on top of the £310,000 price tag. There are views across the Thames to the Chilterns, and it is a riverside walk to Pangbourne. It is by a road.
Dudley Singleton & Daughter, 0118 984 2662 Photograph: Dudley Singleton & Daughter/Dudley Singleton & Daughter

Take three: interior designed homes. Hollywood glamour comes to Hendon, London, with this two-bedder. For £365,000 you get an open-plan kitchen/reception area, a bathroom and a wetroom. Heating wafts up under the porcelain floor in the reception, while nights in are ritzy affairs with an in-built plasma screen. The walls are wired for surround-sound and mood lighting, and french doors open on to a decked patio, leading to a communal garden.
Winkworth, 020 8202 1031 Photograph: Winkworth/Winkworth

Take three: interior designed homes. This was the bakery in the navy's victualling yard at the Royal Clarence Marina in Gosport, Hampshire. There is a 54ft open-plan living area beneath a beamed ceiling and exposed brick, three beds and two bath/shower rooms, all for £380,000. From the Villeroy & Boch bathtub you can gaze across the water. Head height is restricted down one side of the living area.
Berkeley Homes, 023 9252 9054 Photograph: Berkeley Homes/Berkeley Homes

Take three: interior designed homes. A pious church exterior gives no hint of the thrills within this five-bedder in Stichill on the Scottish Borders. Mood lighting glows through a translucent floor in the huge open-plan living area, and there are stained-glass windows and a vaulted roof. £649,950 also gets you five bathrooms, a cloakroom, a laundry and a self-contained two-bed guest wing. There is no garage, and you might expect more land for this money.
John Sale, 01573 224244 Photograph: John Sale/John Sale