Home Decoration

Country Sophisticate home decor Quaint details and a pretty palette lend relaxed elegance to this room Country style ideas When redecorating a living room in a country style, it's templing to place your attention primarily on the furniture—what style to choose, where to buy it, how to arrange it. But the bones of the country style living room—the walls, windows and floors—really set the stage for the country style  ambience you'll create. Walls are blank canvases, providing wonderful opportunity for color and pattern; windows offer an open invitation to get creative with fabrics, shapes and textures; and floors can be instrumental in tying the whole room together. Here, warm, bright walls, colorful window treatments, and a bold-patterned rug bring an otherwise simple living room to life with a spirit of country elegance. The opposite page offers a sampling of products to give a similar polished, yet relaxed air of your own. Hope you can use this country style liv...

The good life of a country style SARAH AND MATTHEW PIKE ARE FULFILLING A RURAL DREAM IN THEIR IDYLLIC 18TH-CENTURY FARMHOUSE Country style ideas from English country cottage AT COUNTRY HOME WITH... OWNERS Sarah Pike runs her own catering company, Concoction, while her husband Matthew works in London. They live here with their children., Katie, 1 7, Millie, 16, and Harry, 13, as well as Higgins the Labrador, Hettie the Norfolk terrier and Arthur the cat. They also have Aylesbury ducks and a Call duck, three horses and a Shetland pony, sheep, Belted Galloway cows and chickens Country style ideas from English country cottage HOUSE Eighteenth-century Sussex farmhouse with barns set in 30 acres ROOMS Hall, living room, dining room, kitchen/diner, laundry room, office, den, snug/cinema room, cloakroom, six bedrooms, two bathrooms, en suite EXTERIOR The pretty English farmhouse is surrounded by beautiful gardens, with a stream, a picturesque pond and a veget...