The English Home

THE NEW CRAFTSMEN

rom summer through to autumn, the Gloucestershire cottage Charles Henry shares with his partner boasts a wonderful flourish of bold, velvety red roses. Leafy stems of Crimson Cascade clamber upwards and around the windows, splashing the mellow honey tones of the traditional Cotswold limestone with their intense rouge. Inside, too, the roses come into sharp focus, peeping in, as the eye is drawn to the garden outside thanks to a lively shade of green on the wood-panelled walls of the drawing room. The paint colour – Farrow & Ball’s Breakfast Room Green – is

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