Old english living room

Come, grab a cup of tea and learn how to make an english cottage living room that's cozy and inspiring with Hunter Greens and leather chairs.

Create an extravagant living room inspired by the Gilded Age with rich tapestries, gold accents, and velvet furnishings. Grand pianos and intricate chandeliers add sophistication, making the space perfect for entertaining. Recreate this era's luxurious craftsmanship in your home. Tap here to discover more ideas for bringing Gilded Age opulence into your living room.

A handsome detached Cotswold stone town house location in the centre of Stow on the Wold.

“By wisdom a house is built, and by understanding it is established; by knowledge the rooms are filled with all precious and pleasant riches” ‭‭Proverbs‬ ‭24:3-4 December was unusually warm here i…

Today I've been trawling through my collection of ancient magazines and in bound copies of House and Garden from 1985 I found pictures of rooms Geoffrey Bennison created in Paris for Princess Firyal of Jordan. During the 1980s, the height of the English Country House style, decorating seemed awash is chintz, so today it came as a pleasure to find an interior as complex as any other done at the time, though without chintz, that did not repel in its sneeze-inducing mustiness or need a damned…

My, it's been a while since I last blogged. Holidays, family commitments, and, most of all, a book tour have kept me away. I'm going to try to get back into the swing of things, and what better way to do so than by featuring a couple of my favorite new book releases. First up, John Richardson: At Home (Rizzoli New York), a memoir of the many homes inhabited over the years by art historian, writer, and Picasso biographer John Richardson. I know that many of us have been waiting anxiously for…