The English Home

The English Home brings you seasonal British design and lifestyle throughout the year. Every issue includes quintessentially British kitchens, bedrooms, bathrooms and living rooms, with useful advice from leading interior designers and architects on how to achieve classic, elegant style.

A letter from home

The English Home

NOTEBOOK • Our monthly edit of news, shopping inspiration and inside information

DESIGN DISCOVERIES • Bring momentum to late spring with bold styles and tactile layers

PATIO HAVEN • Enhance a courtyard, balcony or terrace with chic furniture and accessories to make tending to plants and relaxing with friends all the more pleasurable

FIT FOR A KING

THE EDIT • Editor-at-Large Kate Freud shares the new products and brand discoveries that have caught her eye this month

TIMELESS APPEAL • Restoring an old vicarage and giving it the garden setting it deserved has been a voyage of discovery for Christabel and Jasper Boersma

NATURAL HISTORY • A luminous Arts and Crafts-style home is a showcase for fabrics and wallpapers highlighting the decorative qualities of flora and fauna

Modern CLASSIC • This grand family home has evolved over generations, and Massi and Oliver Smith are its latest custodians

PERFECTLY COMPOSED • Lily Woods enlisted the help of decorator Daniel Slowik to carefully curate and reinvigorate her collection of antique pieces and update the English country style of her London home

STYLE INSPIRATION • Our special section dedicated to interior design and decorating begins here

Nature’s design • Emulate the calm, organic beauty of a lovingly tended garden with botanical and floral patterns that bring the wonder of the outdoors in

Creative Combinations • In a new series celebrating the evolution of colour and pattern, we explore how trends and historical influences have shaped British interiors, starting with a perennial favourite – pink

Rosy outlook • Look anew at pink, from dramatic pops of raspberry to calming pastel prints, this alluring shade is abundant in modern beauty

A stylist’s RETREAT • Renowned for styling beautiful interiors and gardens, Selina Lake tells how she has transformed her own formerly unloved urban exterior into an English cottage garden idyll

Treasure HUNTING • Interior designers reveal their secrets to finding, displaying and combining antiques to bring character and interest to schemes

On Solid GROUND • Practical and enduring hard flooring remains a staple of the English home, thanks to its characterful charm, timeless versatility and increasingly eco-friendly credentials

CALLAGHANS OF SHREWSBURY A FRENCH AFFAIR • How the French Impressionist Marcel Dyf – despite little formal training – managed to capture all the beauty his homeland had to offer in landscapes and still life

QUINTESSENTIALLY • Inspiration for seasonal pastimes and making the most of life at home starts here

What to do in MAY • May is the month for reconnecting with the great outdoors. Enjoy the warmth of the late spring sunshine with a woodland walk, a lazy lunch in the garden, or even as impetus for a brand new decorating scheme

Plotting AHEAD • From supporting wildlife to working from home, we are demanding more from our gardens then ever. Here leading garden designers reveal the new and emerging themes and how to address them

My English Home & Garden • Gardener and writer Arthur Parkinson on the Cotswold home he shares with interior decorator and art adviser James Mackie