Our previous Design Director Gabby Deeming has actually produced a splendidly romantic nation bed room in her Devon home, where the bed room ceiling was removed to expose the joists with plain plaster left down to the photo rail, offering a rustic feel to the area. The walls are Farrow & & Ball’s ‘Dimity’, whose pinkish color makes it a best off-white for the plaster. Gabby has actually included a large drape to the bed (a stopped cotton sheer from Colefax and Fowler), and after that layered vibrant fabrics on the bed. The headboard was made by Ensemblier and upholstered in Bennison’s ‘Ammara’. The cushions on the bed are from Daydress and will be readily available to purchase in spring 2026, and the bedlinen is from Perfume & & Cotton
Tom Griffiths
An English nation bed room can be available in lots of types, from a low-ceilinged, beamed attic in an old home with unequal walls and floorings, to a stylish space of grand percentages in a Regency rental property. The age of your house may create pictures of standard design, filled with patterned materials and antique furnishings; or the eccentricities of the architecture may recommend that a cleaner, more pared-back method will work. There are a lot of search for nation bed rooms that we enjoy: patterned wallpaper, brass bedsteads and quilts are fantastic for producing a sense of heat, while standard four-poster beds with magnificent hangings are alluring in the best setting. Similarly, a white-washed wall and modern-day wood furnishings can appear ideal in ancient spaces where the peculiarities of the environments require to be stabilized by an easy visual. Whatever you'&#x 27; re choosing, our preferred nation bed room concepts make certain to supply you with motivation.
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Dean Hearne1/26 What began as a vacation home in requirement of repair on the edge of the Peak District has actually been charmingly and thriftily changed into a highly layered, exuberantly vibrant household home by a Royal Ballet'&#x 27; s primary ballerina, Lauren Cuthbertson, and her antiquarian partner, Matthew Gerrish. The bed room is a vision of standard nation design, with a recreation mahogany four-poster bed, bed hangings in embroidered cotton from The Fabric Store and a Victorian patchwork quilt. ‘Willow’ wallpaper in yellow by Morris & & Co and an antique Shirvan carpet produce a dynamic plan in the background.
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Mark Anthony Fox2/26 Spaces in the eaves are a typical function of nation homes and barn conversions, and they can be exceptionally captivating. We enjoy this example from a Cotswold home by Berkeley Hawkes, where the primary bed room has actually been opened as much as stream into the restroom, with closets forming a divider in between the spaces. It'&#x 27; s a classy method to open a sightline through the attic area while still enabling a sense of department in between bed room and restroom.
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Paul Massey3/26 This completely standard nation bed room comes from interior designer Carlos Garcia'&#x 27; s Norfolk manor home. The four-poster was developed around a set of Gillows posts and has drapes in Robert Kime’s ‘Tree Peony’ linen. The couch is covered in Volga Linen’s ‘Tuva’ in celadon, with cushions in ‘Lynxia’ silk by Robert Kime.
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Martin Morrell4/26 Including an enthusiastic remediation task and a reconfiguring of the design, James Thurstan Waterworth and Scarlett Supple’s change of a Wiltshire farmhouse has actually led to a calm, pared-back interior specified by James’s diverse antique finds. An Eighties Ron Rezek ‘Orbit’ light for Bieffeplast on the night table supplies a minimalist contrast with the headboard upholstered in an antique material sourced by Scarlett. The freestanding bath in the en-suite restroom, included by James and Scarlett, is from Burlington. They likewise opened the attic above the primary bed room to produce a double-height area.
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Paul Massey5/26 Abundant with history, this 16th-century Cotswold millhouse has warren-like spaces and secret nooks that have actually been boosted by its owners’ collections of antiques and classic fabrics, together with vibrant accents. A bed hanging from an antique store in Shropshire stands apart versus the pale linen drapes and Farrow & & Ball’s ‘James White’ on the walls, ceiling and initial beams in this more just recently developed part of your house. The earthier tones of a bedcover made from a Bennison material residue, a cushion discovered in a charity store and carpets acquired by Renshaw ground the plan.
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Paul Massey6/26 An extra space in the very same Cotswold millhouse includes ‘Snowflake’ wallpaper by Nicholas Herbert in old red and drapes in Lewis & & Wood’s ‘Stockholm Stitch’ material in cream/red. Integrated, the 2 are the background for an antique bed with a geometric quilt.
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Dean Hearne7/26 Designer Bodil Bjerkvik Blain has actually brought heat and richness to this disregarded Victorian farmhouse, changing it into a warm cocoon with upholstered walls and worldly antiques. The walls in this bed room are upholstered in Lowish Plaid (teal) from Colefox and Fowler, echoing the print on the couch downstairs. The furnishings– consisting of a French armoire– is all antique, sourced by Bodil from the UK, America and Italy generally.
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Dean Hearne8/26 In the primary bed room of the very same Victorian farmhouse, the wallpaper is GP and J Baker'&#x 27; s Ferns, which continues onto the canopy above the vintage Ralph Lauren bed. Where antiques didn’t work, Bodil adjusted existing furnishings or developed brand-new furnishings to fit nicely into the areas. In the primary bed room, she felt that searching for at a wood ceiling may feel “a little crass”, so she developed a classy canopy to hang over the owners' &#x 27; existing linen Ralph Lauren bed. She likewise developed armchairs with partially extended legs so that the extremely high household might conveniently sit and take pleasure in the warm, yellow sitting space.
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Tom Griffiths9/26 Having actually discovered this small home in Oxfordshire 5 years earlier, Victoria Barker has actually reversed the results of a characterless remodelling to produce an irresistibly quite interior. The wallpaper in this bed room is by Molly Mahon, and the bed was developed to sit below the beams, with an upholstered headboard and frame once again in 36 Bourne Street'&#x 27; s’ Little F ‘linen in’ Tutti’.
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Boz Gagovski10/26 In the primary bed room of this home in Wiltshire by Brandon Schubert, the calm, plain painted walls are balanced out by a headboard in a textural geometric material, above which hangs a framed fabric. The bed is dressed with a cushion of another highly-textural material and covered in a heavily woven Welsh blanket, which ended up being a sort of formula that we utilized for the other bed rooms in your house. Small textured materials sit versus walls painted in Vert de Terre from Farrow & & Ball. The headboard is covered in Sambar from Turnell & & Gigon. The drape material is Seine Port from Pierre Frey. The bedside lights were transformed from vases discovered on eBay.
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Simon Brown11/26 Old beams and wallpaper– in this case ‘Indienne’ from Lewis & & Wood– produce a welcoming mix in the bed room of this Herefordshire farmhouse. The colour scheme is soft, with soft patterns and a traditional brass bedstead adding to the sense of heat.
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James McDonald12/26 Modern and standard satisfy in Tobias Vernon'&#x 27; s Somerset home, where antique furnishings sits beside modern pieces (along with a fantastic art collection) versus a tidy, easy background of white walls. An Ian McKeever etching and a Svenskt Tenn brass candle light sconce hang above Tobias’s youth Environment bed, now painted Farrow & & Ball’s ‘Em erald Green’. The hand-woven linen toss is by Catarina Riccabona; the oil paintings are by Emma Alcock.
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Paul Massey13/26 The interior designer Caroline Holdaway had actually currently embellished 2 homes for Robin Muir and Paul Lyon Maris when they got her aid on their brand-new Cotswolds home. In this little visitor space, a bedcover and drapes in Christopher Maya’s ‘Ostrich’ linen in charleston from Holland & & Sherry detect walls in ‘Moss’ by Paint & & Paper Library. The antique ceramic finial on the window ledge is from Brownrigg.
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Ben Pentreath14/26 Weding old and brand-new is an uphill struggle in a grand nation home, however Ben Pentreath has actually handled it with substantial style in this Regency rental property in Hampshire. Conventional toile de Jouy gets a strong reinvention in this bed room, where Manuel Canovas’ ‘Bellegarde’ toile de Jouy in rouge, from Colefax and Fowler, was utilized throughout. Farrow & & Ball’s ‘Pink Ground’ on the ceiling contrasts with woodwork painted in its ‘Blue Gray’. The ceramic ‘Charlotte Candlestick’ table light is from Hector Finch.
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Michael Sinclair15/26 Attics constantly produce captivating visitor spaces, specifically considering that their architectural peculiarities just need to be endured for a brief time! Fabric designer Natasha James has actually produced a wonderful area in her nation home in Yorkshire, integrating Cole & & Boy &#x 27; s’ Sugary food Pea ‘wallpaper with 2 of her own Tasha Textiles prints– ‘Honfleur Reverse’ on the armchair and eiderdowns in ‘Jaipur’. The kilim carpet originated from Natalia Violet Antiques.
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Paul Massey16/26 In among the homes on Prince Charles' &#x 27; Cornish estate, the design is tidy, easy and unfussy. White walls heated up by vibrant fabrics will constantly be among our preferred search for a home. The quilt is from The Romantic Englishwoman in Lostwithiel.
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Simon Brown17/26 With a big household and regular visitors, the owner of this home in Hampshire entrusted Henriette von Stockhausen with producing sophisticated and flexible interiors that assist to loop the initial Georgian spaces and a current extension. In the primary bed room, Henriette has actually developed an extra-wide four-poster bed that is additional high, too, to keep it in percentage. The owner’s choice for calm colours dominates here, with a Ziegler Sultanabad carpet, a couch with a back decreased to the height of the bed behind it and the leafy arabesques of a set of antique mirrors, versus Lewis & & Wood’s ‘Indienne’ wallpaper.
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Michael Sinclair18/26 Loft conversions in cities and towns are frequently little areas perfect for kids or visitors. The top of a barn conversion, on the other hand, can be a wonderfully large primary bed room eliminated from the hubbub of life. Light colours and scrubbed or limewashed beams keep them intense. The primary bed room of Jo Vestey'&#x 27; s Oxfordshire farmhouse has Jo'&#x 27; s photos ondisplay and a Japanese light on the desk. The dark beams, floorings and desk contrasts well with the white carpet and walls, offering a total appearance that is both tidy and rustic.
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Elsa Young19/26 Jeanetta Rowan-Hamilton of Nettles Cashmere restored her tin-roofed fishing lodge in Scotland after acquiring it from her moms and dads. She hates waste and likes modification of use, and is frequently seen in the salvage area of her regional antiques store. In among the 4 bed rooms, Jeanetta has actually repainted this set of Victorian beds that were her grandma'&#x 27; s. The neutral tongue and groove walls and ceiling brings the feel of old and brand-new together.
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Davide Lovatti20/26 A bed room on the very first flooring of Tom Helme'&#x 27; s Carskiey Estate has a soft, pastel scheme, with window and bed drapes in a matching '&#x 27; N-098 &#x 27; wicker linen from Fermoie. Pink and green is a traditional colour mix, and it doesn'&#x 27; t come a lot more standard than that best four-poster bed.
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Simon Upton21/26 Among the visitor bed room at Bowood Home in Wiltshire has actually walls covered in Colefax & & Fowler '&#x 27; s &#x 27; Bowood &#x 27; style- a pattern called after this home with interiors by John Fowler. The very same pattern functions on the bed valance, headboard, drapes and chair upholstery.
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22/26 Layers of pattern embellish the primary bed room in the Hampshire home of designer and antiquarians Max Rollitt. The space is lined in Pierre Frey'&#x 27; s &#x 27; Sans Papillons &#x 27; wallpaper and includes a canopy bed.
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Paul Massey23/26 Designer Guy Goodfellow has actually made the window a function in this manor-house bed room in Devon. Its sash is painted in Rose of Jericho'&#x 27; s &#x 27; Mountain Green &#x 27;, framed by thick linen drapes and with a wise seat beneath. The ceiling is painted with flower themes, offering the look of pargeting. To reproduce these murals, attempt the painter Dawn Reader.
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James Fennell24/26 A number of tones of blue are integrated to fantastic impact in this bed room at Badminton Home in Gloucestershire. The bed hangings remain in '&#x 27; Hops &#x 27; by Colefax and Fowler. For a comparable soft-blue paint to that on the walls of this space, attempt '&#x 27; Sky Blue &#x 27; from Documents and Paints.
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Simon Brown25/26 In the extra bed room of Caroline Holdaway'&#x 27; s home, an olive-stripe flatweave carpet from Sinclair Till contrasts with a lively tartan carpet from Toast utilized as a bedspread and cushions made from material pieces left over from tasks.
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26/26 Alexandra Tolstoy'&#x 27; s Oxfordshire home is a lovely mix of old and brand-new. Emma Burns of Sibyl Colefax & & John Fowler dealt with the existing functions of each space to revive them. The bed room'&#x 27; s orange velour drapes (out of shot) were an initial component, though Emma had them remade and hung from an antique pole to match the quilt (which she sourced from Colefax and Fowler Antiques). The wallpaper is '&#x 27; Alice &#x 27; by George Spencer, while Oka is an excellent match for the embroidered cushion covers.


