October 2022

Country Homes & Interiors

The magazine for today's country home

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Editor’s Letter
REDESIGNING a magazine is a bit like moving house and deciding which furniture to take with you and which doesn’t suit your new life and home any more. There’s something liberating about letting go of the old and consciously, carefully choosing what
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EDITORIAL DIRECTOR SARAH SPITERI EDITOR ANDRÉA CHILDS GROUP CHIEF SUB-EDITOR/PRODUCTION EDITOR SARAH FARLEY HOUSES EDITORS VIVIENNE AYERS and KAREN DARLOW SENIOR CONTENT EDITOR RACHEL CROW CONTENT EDITORS HOLLY REANEY, PIPPA BLENKINSOP and ZARA STACE
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Autumn Entertaining
Dining outdoors at this time of year can be risky with the weather, but should it take a turn for the worse, bring the outdoors in with a seasonally inspired table setting. Tuck dried flowers or seed pods into napkin rings, lay a sprig of leaves on t
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Felicity Marshall
Felicity’s desire to furnish her own home with sustainable and stylish homewares led to the launch earlier this year of ethical homeware brand, Daughters of Gaea. Inspired by traditional Indian florals, her debut collection of cushions and throws has
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The Joyful Home
Perhaps it is the advent of lantern season, with its dancing glow of candlelight and eerie quiet of shadowy corners inside and out, but I believe autumn is one of the most joyful and romantic moments in the year. Is this air of enchantment because Oc
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Coming Next Month…
• Beautiful, cosy decor • How designers use colour • Design a stunning and practical hallway • Give yours a glow-up with smart lighting • Trees for fiery colour • Collect and store seeds • Simple & stylish autumn crafts • Putting the art into pastry
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Rustic Revival
Tracey Gill’s characterful weatherboarded house, with its handmade clay tiled roof, veranda and manicured lawns, is so in tune with its surroundings it is difficult to believe it is barely four years old. ‘Our focus when we were house hunting was to
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Natural Wonder
Living here feels as though we’re immersed in an ever-changing natural environment,’ says Dan Rowland, who, with his wife Nina, has designed and built a cutting-edge eco home, complete with a natural swimming pond, in West Sussex. ‘It’s been a labour
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Treasure Hunting
With busy London lives, we’d always loved escaping to Dorset,’ says Matt Cobon, talking about the first time he and wife Alice viewed their West Country farmhouse, back in 2013. ‘It’s a beautiful part of the world, and as self-confessed foodies, the
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Invitation To Relax
The cottage reminds me of my grandma’s house – I know she would have loved it,’ says Rachel Southern of her Cotswolds bolthole, an idyllic property that dates from the mid 1600s. Originally a barn adjoining the next door farmhouse, it was later conve
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Forever Green
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A Stylish Home Office
Working from home gives you the opportunity to make your workspace your own; no grey desks and bare walls here. Your office needs to feel like a place where you want to spend time. ‘When designing this study, I wanted to inject a dash of flamboyance,
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Making A Moodboard
We’ve all seen the pretty pictures on Instagram – flat layers of colours and fabrics that are supposedly the inspiration for a room. However, curating a moodboard that will prove useful to your interior project is far more complex than simply groupin
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The Return Of Wood
Recyclable and renewable, timber from sustainably managed forests makes it a more environmentally-friendly choice than many other materials – another reason that its natural beauty is being celebrated in today’s kitchens. ‘deVOL has always been caref
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It’s Time To Light The Fire
Lighting the first fire of the season is a ritual to look forward to, ushering in cosy evenings, meditative moments and perhaps a nightcap before bedtime – all of which will be ruined by a cloud of soot from an unswept chimney and smoke from damp log
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The Sensory Home
What we see around us is paramount to our happiness. If something makes us smile, it creates a reaction in the brain and releases hormones, including dopamine and serotonin. I think of these objects as ‘happy triggers’. Our possessions can bring us c
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Smart Movers
The rural town of Lewes (see overleaf) saw house price rises of 16.7% last year. Canny investors might look down the road instead – ‘next best’ homebuyers can save thousands a stone’s throw from property hotspots. ‘By shifting your search, you’ll oft
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Let’s Move To Lewes
Designer William Morris reputedly described Lewes in East Sussex, which is traversed by the River Ouse and surrounded by the South Downs, as ‘lying like a box of toys under a great amphitheatre of chalk hills…’ His playful analogy still holds true wh
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Whatever The Weather
There are many things to love about autumn – the crunchy leaves, the warm woollen jumpers and the roaring fires, to name a few. However, it also brings wind, rain and a significant drop in temperature, not to mention the promise of frosts and possibl
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Relocation Restart
Life coach and author of How to Relocate, Natalie Trice lives in Devon with her husband Oliver and sons Eddie and Lucas. ‘There are lots of reasons you might decide to relocate, from wanting to be closer to nature to needing more space. But once the
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Natural Insulation
Conventional insulation is made from fossil fuels – things like fibreglass fibres which pose a risk if inhaled, polystyrene beads, polyurethane foam and mineral wool. Planet-friendly alternatives trap heat inside during winter, keep rooms cool in the
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Harvest Festival
‘The start of autumn is always about gratitude for me. And what better way to show this than to celebrate the bounty of the season’s harvest and all the things that make autumn so special with a tonal arrangement. Place this at the heart of your home
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Our Daily Bread
SERVES 2-4 I do love a kebab. Admittedly, this is not the world’s best-kept secret, as over the years I have written many kebab recipes using every kind of meat. This is my go-to when I want good value and quick, easy results. Vegetable or olive oil5
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Stranger Things
Add a spooky touch to walls with embroidery ‘webs’. Mount crocheted doilies onto embroidery hoops then hang on a wall. If the doilies are too small, cut and fasten to linen with a little iron-on tape. Arrange the webs in clusters and dress with spide
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‘My Beautiful Dahlias Have Given Me A Dazzling New Career’
When Andie McDowell set herself a challenge in 2020 – to transform her unassuming Oxfordshire garden into a riot of colour and open it under the National Garden Scheme three months later – she wasn’t to know that it would be the beginning of an extra
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Borders For Bugs
Think of autumn and winter as time for a wildlife takeover in the garden. Start by leaving the beds and border tidy-up until the springtime to provide food and shelter for visiting creatures in the cold months. Hedgehogs like to hibernate beneath orn
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Queen Of Climbers
Whether adorning fences and walls, scrambling up pergolas or winding through herbaceous borders, clematis offer myriad flower shapes to choose from. Blooms range from tiny bells to large dinner plates, in a wide spectrum of colours, from deep blues a
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Step Up Your Gardening
Far from presenting limitations, a sloping garden can offer wonderful layout and planting options that wouldn’t be possible on a level plot. With terraces, you can create distinct garden areas, each with their own purpose, ambience and planting schem
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Purple Reign
When I’m designing a planting plan, many of my clients say they love purple. Lavender is popular, but here’s an idea for a small border that you can easily create in your own sunny garden, using purple flowers and textured foliage. Adjust the scheme
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Sow Grow Show
These require a sheltered spot, but they will bring brightness to beds in autumn and winter. They need ericaceous soil and partial shade. Seen here, C. sasanqua ‘Leslie Ann’. The feast of Michaelmas falls on 29 September, but the daisies named for it
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Juicy Fruits
Rambling through forest and field, gathering wild berries to make pies and preserves, is a joyous pastime. And the flavour of fruits grown naturally in the wild, gently ripened by the sun’s rays, is far superior to any that you may pick up from a sup
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Smallholding Life
Autumn is my favourite time of year, especially now that I live in the countryside. I love the golden brown and red colours of the leaves on the trees; the hedgerows filled with wild blackberries and sloes; crab apples ready to pick in the walled gar
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Aday In The Country
My perfect countryside escape is a 16th-century manor house in Totleigh Barton, Devon. It has long been an Arvon Foundation writing centre, and I’ve been going there for almost 20 years as a tutor or guest lecturer. My room is in a converted goose sh

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