High on the success of my English Home magazine coup (I still have no idea how we made it into this interiors magazine maven) I thought that I would go through each room with a little more detail as to how we created our cosy cottage Christmas. I spend days decorating our home every year and I genuinely believe that it makes the festivities feel far more special (that and the Baileys), the children are beyond excited to open each spider webbed box (our loft is an arachnophobes nightmare) and greet our decorations like old friends “Oh I had forgotten about this” “Oh my angel from year 1 ..read more

Their English Country Cottages My favourite items are my Aga and my garden sauna! Tonja Barefield This fabulous quote from Tonja absolutely sums up her stunning cottage, it is an old traditional stone cottage set in the glorious countryside of Somerset but the stunning interiors have a wonderfully European flavour with white walls and a plethora of French influenced fabrics, antique Swedish furniture and English faded florals. The front door is painted with Little Greene ‘Portland Stone Dark’. “I must have bought at least 20 tester pots until I found this perfect colour. It is not to ..read more