The English style in interior design is admired and copied all over the world. At its grandest it means antiques, portraits, and artifacts--but the houses in this book are country cottages, farmhouses and parsonages, urban row houses, and apartments--not mansions. What links them is as much an attitude as a look. The English style of decoration is practical and informal, designed around the people who occupy the rooms rather than decorating to impress. These houses are lived in and loved, they are not afraid to be pretty and above all they are comfortable. Author Ros Byam Shaw divdes the book into Plain English, English Eccentric, English Rose, English Country House, and Classic English to reflect the many facets of English style. Each chapter end with accessible ideas for furnishing a house in that style. *A directory of suppliers will help you achieve the look in your home. *Featured homes include those of writers Rafaella Barker, Leslie Geddes-Brown, and interior designers Emily Todhunter, Gilly and Geoff Newberry of Bennison Fabrics, and Roger Jones of Colefax and Fowler *Evocative photography by Chris Tubbs....

How do you show off the best features of a home built for another age, while adapting it for modern living? In "Old House New Home", Ros Byam Shaw looks at the many different ways we can furnish and arrange an old building to suit today's needs, whether it is a terraced townhouse or a converted factory. Exploring properties as diverse as a small Victorian townhouse and a former country dairy, she reveals how the design of each home has been reinvented for the 21st century. This book is divided into a series of key styles: 'Period Piece', 'Urban Chic', 'Rustic', 'Recycled Spaces' and 'Country House'....