Gone are the days of white leather sofas and mirrored tables for the Beckhams: The glamorous family is looking at a lavish old country home with an eye for a new, more traditional style of living.
Many things can shape a city—its culture, history, social life, or food scene. But perhaps the most distinctive feature would be architecture. Some buildings can completely fascinate you with their astonishing design and pure aesthetics. Through careful urban planning and understanding of the cultural background, the structure of a city can carry you through time while still leaving you in a very particular place.
For a young Anglo-Italian family, American designer Joy Moyler breathes fresh air into an English manse with a storied past
IT’S GREAT fun watching the PBS series Downton Abbey. And one of my favorite mystery movies is Gosford Park. What’s more, through friendship with Rob Walker and his wife Betty, rest their souls, I’…
Many things can shape a city—its culture, history, social life, or food scene. But perhaps the most distinctive feature would be architecture. Some buildings can completely fascinate you with their astonishing design and pure aesthetics. Through careful urban planning and understanding of the cultural background, the structure of a city can carry you through time while still leaving you in a very particular place.
These grand castles and estates will let you live out all of your “Downton Abbey” fantasies
With its Robert Adam interiors and Capability Brown landscape, Bowood is the epitome of an eighteenth-century English country house, formed by the taste and vision of previous inhabitants and now adapting gently to the needs of the twenty-first century
From rural cottage to grand estate, country gardens should be tailored to the house and landscape they occupy. Clare Foster talks to three garden designers about the elements that give a garden that all-important sense of place and we've included loads of inspiration to help you design your English country garden to perfection
Director Emerald Fennell’s fever dream of a film starring Jacob Elordi and Barry Keoghan takes place inside the seductive confines of a Baroque English manor
Are you looking for ways to add touches of English Country to your home? As you know, I am a huge fan o...
What is Take 5 you ask…well it is a collection of 5 things that I think you will all enjoy! It can be themed…random…food…crafts…home decor and everything in between. Hopefully you will love them enough to take 5 minutes out of your busy day… relax and enjoy! Today’s it is all about 5 reasons to […]
I’ve been treated to a few beautiful sights in my travels. Sunsets painting the sky with fire in Indonesia. A thundering waterfall oasis in Thailand. Vibrant underwater kingdoms in Honduras. But as mu
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At Asthall Manor in Oxfordshire – former home of the Mitford sisters – Rosie Pearson has restored the Jacobean house and gardens, which now provide the setting for a biennial celebration of contemporary sculpture.
Great Chalfield is a 15th century moated manor house owned by the National Trust
John Goodall looks how great homes developed in England in Lancastrian and Yorkist times.
The 15thc Manor House at Temple Guiting Gloucs, just magnificent place to stay and visit...in the rural Cotswolds. www.adamswaine.co.uk
From the meticulously manicured gardens to the layered interiors, the decorator's house is an aesthetic tour de force
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