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3 weeks ago | 
houseandgarden.co.uk | Charlotte McCaughan-Hawes
Country kitchen ideas: botanical artist Tattie Isles' Dorset cottage is a vision of rustic charm. ‘I wanted our home to feel fun, magical and lively for my three boys and little girl,’ explains Tattie. ‘Equally, I want it to feel relaxing and embracing of the chaos of busy family life.’ Tattie kept the existing kitchen units, painting them in DeVol's ‘Refectory Red’ and removing the upper cabinets to create a more open feel.
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3 weeks ago | 
houseandgarden.co.uk | Charlotte McCaughan-Hawes
When deciding on a restaurant to book, there's more to consider than just what's on the plate. It's a holistic approach that creates the best restaurants, where delicious food, impeccable, friendly service and a wonderful setting all come together to create the best experience. A restaurant can survive with two of the three elements, but they truly thrive when all three come together. Below are a selection of the best restaurants in the UK where the interiors are worth visiting for alone.
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1 month ago | 
houseandgarden.co.uk | Charlotte McCaughan-Hawes
The walls, bedcover and bed canopy in this 19th-century chateau in the Périgord are in Christopher Moore’s ‘Fragonard’ in heather. Boz GagovskiThe story of toile de Jouy fabric starts in 18th-century France, in the town of Jouy-en-Josas. At the height of Europe's obsession with Indian cotton (which saw the fabric banned for a time by both the French and English governments) the German-born Christophe-Philippe Oberkampf set up a factory near the Bièvre river.
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1 month ago | 
houseandgarden.co.uk | Charlotte McCaughan-Hawes
Who doesn't want to be on holiday all the time, with a warm breeze, airy interiors and constant sunshine? Unfortunately, life doesn't quite allow for that but what you can do is recreate some of those classic, stylish holiday home decorating tropes in your own house to live out an endless summer. The trick is to pinpoint some key elements that define the decoration of the holiday house.
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1 month ago | 
houseandgarden.co.uk | Charlotte McCaughan-Hawes
RHSIn just over a month, Chelsea Flower Show is set to take over the capital once more and there's a particularly exciting first time exhibitor: gardening legend Monty Don. Monty is no stranger to the Chelsea crowd, of course, and is usually found at the show giving commentary or taking part in television filming, but this will be the first time he's there showing a garden of his own.
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1 month ago | 
houseandgarden.co.uk | Charlotte McCaughan-Hawes
Neisha Crossland's kitchen in LondonJames McDonaldA gallery kitchen, also called a Frankfurt kitchen (named for the city in which it was first designed by the historic female architect Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky) is first and foremost a utilitarian space which makes the most of pokey rooms and (hopefully) high ceilings.
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1 month ago | 
houseandgarden.co.uk | Charlotte McCaughan-Hawes
The platonic ideal of a house in the Cotswolds surely lies in the Laurie Lee valley, where the undulating hill slope into the green valley and the views and countryside are impossible to beat. With Slad as the main village in the area, it also feels more authentic than neighbouring villages, less ‘honey-hued perfection’ and more country life as you'd expect to find it.
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1 month ago | 
houseandgarden.co.uk | Charlotte McCaughan-Hawes
The idea of ‘dinner and a show’ is often more romantic than the reality of a quickly snaffled, last minute choice as a chain as you've not planned ahead and can't miss the curtain going up. There are hundreds of restaurants near London's West End and its theatres, but they're not all good, to say the least. Avoid the chains and book into one of these stellar places instead for a refined dinner before you head to your seats.
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1 month ago | 
houseandgarden.co.uk | Charlotte McCaughan-Hawes
Lonika Chande is the queen of painted woodwork, here she uses a glossy red to dictate the room's accent coloursMilo Brown“Woodwork is an opportunity to experiment and push the boundaries in a more classic project. It changes the feel of a space and has a huge visual impact,” says designer Lonika Chande. It can also be a wonderful way to create progression and flow both within and between rooms. There are many ways to make a house feel cohesive if that's even something you are aiming for.
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1 month ago | 
houseandgarden.co.uk | Charlotte McCaughan-Hawes
Pallas Kalamotusis' London flatMichael Sinclair Ask an interior designer their thoughts on L-shaped sofas and the response (at least according to Pallas Kalamotusis of Studio Krokalia) might be exactly what you expect: “every client's dream and every interior designer's nightmare”. What's the reason behind this dichotomy? Well, as comfortable as they might be for lounging, offering ample space to curl into them and stretch out, they are simply not as attractive as a classical sofa.
