Home Tour/Interiors

Country Home Style: Building Our New ‘Old’ House

The house we live in today is not in the style we had first thought up when designing our dream home.  In fact, what we wanted was something more in the Arts & Crafts style which is seen so much throughout the English Countryside.  Unfortunately, or fortunately for us, the Planners over here had different… Continue reading Country Home Style: Building Our New ‘Old’ House

Home Tour/Interiors

Country Home Style: Master Bedroom Suite

I haven't done one of these Home Tour posts in quite a while so I thought I would kick them off again with a look at our Master Suite and how we went about styling it. I call it a suite as it is made up of three rooms.  We have a large Master Bedroom… Continue reading Country Home Style: Master Bedroom Suite

Entertaining

The Easy Art of Entertaining (My Style)

We love to entertain in this house and have been doing it for many years and so at this stage, I like to think we have the art of looking after guests fairly well sussed!!  As I work full-time, I don't get to have people over as often as I would like but when we… Continue reading The Easy Art of Entertaining (My Style)

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Country Home Style: Living Room

So here it is.. my third instalment in our Home Tour!!  I've already given you our Downstairs Toilet (here) and our Dining Room (here) and now its the turn of our Living Room... Like a number of the rooms in our home, after our ten years of living here it was due a makeover and… Continue reading Country Home Style: Living Room

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Country Home Style: Dining Room

In today's homes it is more typical to have an Open Plan Kitchen/Dining Area as opposed to individual rooms but when we were planning our home, we probably went against the trends and opted for a separate Kitchen and Dining Room. While our Kitchen is large enough to cater for a greater number of people than… Continue reading Country Home Style: Dining Room