Perfect English Style: Creating Rooms That are Comfortable, Pleasing and Timeless

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Some styles of decorating have a longer shelf life than others. One of the most durable is English Country Style, which works just as well in a city apartment or suburban home as it does in a rectory or manor house.

We may recognise an interior as archetypally English, but putting a finger on exactly what makes it so can be tricky. One of the strengths of English style is that it isnt prescriptive. In fact, quite the opposite. It is relaxed, laissez-faire, and endlessly adaptable all reasons, no doubt, why it has enjoyed such longevity. You know it when you see it, but what are its essential ingredientsInPerfect English Style, Ros Byam Shaw looks at a range of rooms with a strong English feel to them. As it happens, they are all in England, though this is a look that travels the world, still predominantly English in flavour even when spiced with foreign ingredients. Ros explores the main rooms of a house, from hallways to bedrooms, their characteristics and furnishings, and how they achieve that mix of comfort, informality and visual charm that is the hallmark of English style. Ros also homes in on specifics; the qualities of patina, the important role of fabrics and fresh flowers, how to buy, use and include antique and vintage furnishings, and how a collection, whether of pebbles or 18th century glass, adds individuality and character.

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The pictures are a repository of useful ideas, while the words paint for us the soft-focused dream of an English home, in which it is a pleasure to lose oneself - House Garden

Enjoy beautiful images of gorgeous interiors and get tips for your own home -This England

Author Bio

Ros Byam Shawwrites on design and interiors forThe World of Interiors,House & Gardenand theTelegraph, among others. Ros is the author ofPerfect English,Perfect English Farmhouse,English Eccentric,Perfect French Country,and Perfect English Townhouse, as well as the bestsellingFarrow & Ball Living with Colour(all published by Ryland Peters & Small).Ros lives in Devon with her husband and dog.