At Home in the Cotswolds: Secrets of English Country House Style

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The adjoining, longer wing containing three further bedrooms sits above the large dining room with the kitchen beyond. Abrams Books is dedicated to publishing visually stunning illustrated books on the subjects of art, architecture, photography, graphic design, interior and garden design, fashion, comic arts and graphic novels, sports, and general interest.

Calendar arrived safely in plastic-free packaging - which I've not seen before with a calendar, so kudos for that. Three-bedroom staggered mid terrace home situated in the sought after location of Wotton-under-Edge. I filled it with softer cushions as it had a bit of a waiting room shape before and it was too short for my husband.

Hazelbury Manor is an exceptional Grade I listed Manor house, lying within extensive gardens and 180 acres of pasture and woodland. Pay in 4 is a form of credit, so consider whether you can afford the repayments as use of the product may impact your credit score. They were also drawn by the charm of its landscape, its rich craft tradition, and its unique existing architecture. She believes in preserving or enhancing historic architectural details as much as possible and admits to often being ‘worryingly obsessed with lighting’, partial to low wattages, dimmers, and candlelight.

With their distinctive honey-colored stone walls, set amongst rolling hills and beautiful countryside, the décor of these houses expresses inspirational ideals of English country style that readers will love to explore and emulate.This amount includes seller specified domestic postage charges as well as applicable international postage, dispatch, and other fees. The curtains are in pink ticking fabric from Tinsmiths, the chair was picked up at a warehouse sale at Soho House and the Moroccan striped rug is from Penelope Chilvers. They were following in the footsteps of the design giant William Morris whose manor house in Kelmscott remains a place of pilgrimage for Arts and Crafts aficionados to this day.

The drawing room is painted in Edward Bulmer Lilac Pink, which turns into a warm pink in the evening light. With the homes’ idyllic settings, this collection presents inspirational ideals of English country style certain to fascinate and delight. The raspberry cowhide rug from Penelope Chilvers picks up the colour palette and goes with the red and white ticking curtains from Tinsmiths.A beautiful compilation of some of the most beautiful houses in the Cotswolds, it makes the perfect coffee table book or gift. Over a chair picked up from a Soho House furniture sale is a rug designed by Penelope, and here her daughter loves to feed her baby son, enjoying the view from the window. Author Katy Campbell and photographer Mark Nicholson take us on a tour of the villages and rolling hills of the Cotswolds as they uncover some of the most charming and inspirational homes in the region: a chocolate box cottage, an exquisite old rectory, a Georgian farmhouse, a quintessential manor house, an historic stately home, and more. The woodburner was added in for extra warmth and the chairs were reupholstered in Penelope Chilvers conker leather.

The Cotswolds stone house is an unusual L-shape with a half-timbered link, with plasterwork, connecting the elevations. Penelope picked up this suzani-style embroidery in Istanbul and matched it with giant ceramic pears and an OKA lamp. I always found I created such a mess there because it had lots of straight lines and minimalist interiors.Made up of three former workmen's cottages knocked into one five-bedroom house, this fitted the bill perfectly. French doors in the dining room lead out to the kitchen terrace which looks out over the house’s twenty acres of terraced gardens, woods and ancient pastures leading down to a small lake. They must have been jolly cold come wintertime in their short woollen tunics, but it would have been worth it for such a view.