The English Home

The English Home brings you seasonal British design and lifestyle throughout the year. Every issue includes quintessentially British kitchens, bedrooms, bathrooms and living rooms, with useful advice from leading interior designers and architects on how to achieve classic, elegant style.

A letter from home

The English Home

NOTEBOOK • The latest news, summer events and anniversaries, pretty and practical buys for spending time outdoors, and previews of show gardens at Chelsea Flower Show

PEOPLE & PLACES • Discover craftsmen, makers and exciting collaborations, celebrate anniversaries and visit the most dazzling garden and flower shows of the year

Chelsea Flower Show Focus • May, for the green-fingered, means the much-anticipated, world-famous, Chelsea Flower Show, when garden designers, sponsors and charities come together to create showstopping gardens

GROW YOUR OWN • The perfect accompaniments for pottering about the vegetable patch and reaping the rewards of lovingly tended crops

DECAMP TO THE GARDEN • Whether celebrating, relaxing or dining al fresco, elevate time spent in the garden with pretty and practical details

THE EDIT • Our selection of ways to update the garden, both practical and decorative

Unexpected Suffolk • When former fashion designer Pascale Smets discovered a 19th-century rectory with a racy past, she realised it was the challenge she had been looking for

Piano LESSONS • A musical family home has been gently updated with art, antiques and layers of subtle colour and pattern against a backdrop of Victorian architecture and a striking contemporary extension

Collected & CURATED • This historic home in Surrey has undergone a major overhaul and now boasts a warm, welcoming atmosphere thanks to antique finds, bold colours and handcrafted elements

MODERN HISTORY • An unwavering attention to detail and well-curated mix of materials and hues combine to create a family home that is a true city haven

STYLE INSPIRATION • Botanical fabrics and wallpapers celebrating beautiful gardens, transformative outdoor paints, design secrets for perfect outdoor spaces and inspiring gardens in full bloom

Botanical STUDIES • Many fabrics and wallpapers reference beautiful flora, but these collections have deeper connections that capture incredible garden designs in detailed, whimsical and captivating forms

Outdoor COLOUR • Bring the garden to life and treat it like an interior, using exterior paint to add vibrancy and character

GARDENS • What makes a garden both practical and pleasing as well as an enticing extension to the home? We ask a number of creatives, designers and tastemakers to share their inspiration

A FRESH PERSPECTIVE • The magical gardens at Westbrook House on the Somerset Levels truly shine, the owners’ impeccable style and taste resulting in a fascinating textural palette interwoven with roses and topiary

Character STUDY • Passionate plant lover Jane Collins believes every specimen has its own character, which must be respected, and by playing to their strengths has made a charming froth of a garden at Orchard Cottage in East Sussex

LIVING THE SEASON • Sissinghurt’s head gardener reveals his favourite plants, plus create a dream outside space, inspiring gardens to visit this summer and Alan Titchmarsh talks home comforts

ALL THE GREATS • A selection of 10 classic plants from Sissinghurst, as chosen by head gardener Troy Scott Smith, who works to preserve the garden’s heritage

How does your GARDEN GROW? • Florist and garden writer Milli Proust offers her advice on creating a new planting scheme to achieve the garden of your dreams

Inspirational SCENES • Each of these open gardens offers a wealth of horticultural...