Christmas in England

Lots of cute ideas for your Christmas decorating in this renovated 19th century cottage in North Yorkshire, England.






The original fireplace was knocked through to install a double-sided log burner to benefit both sitting rooms.













By the way, for those of you who've asked, I will certainly be posting more Christmas inspired interiors but you might want to see some previous posts with many lovely ideas. Just click on the words Christmas on the right hand side of this page under the title Labels. There are over 20 posts. Enjoy!

Photography by Colin Poole.
If you'd like to read the article on this cottage click here.

And, if you haven't seen this before, here is a cool, easy, craft I found last year which you might like to make.



You can find the instructions for these paper snowflakes here.

Have a lovely day, and see you tomorrow!

Country Home in Australia

Today, we are going to Australia to visit Alice Barker and her husband Daniel's cottage, built around 1910 and located in Ballarat, Australia’s largest inland city.

Ceramics they bought in Morocco, Turkey and Thailand can be seen displayed in many of the rooms. Blue-and-white china jars and bowls are grouped on a hall table and on the kitchen mantel, while the dining room dresser displays floral patterned teacups and colourful Moroccan pottery. The fireplaces are original.

Alice and Daniel are both keen photographers. In the sitting room, vintage black-and-white photographs share the walls with images from their travels. One of Alice’s treasures, an old Kodak Brownie camera, is displayed on the mantel beside reproduction copies of 1920s postcards from Egypt on a wire stand.


Daniel and Alice with their daughter, Lucinda.






























All images and information from here.

Happy Mother's Day!

It's night time here, and for many of you I guess it must be Monday already, but anyway I wanted to wish you a very Happy Mother's Day to all you beautiful mothers! Hope you have all been duly pampered and had a wonderful day.

Now I leave you to enjoy today's tour that takes us to a story-like cottage in Norway. Hulda and Arnt Håvard live in this house called Ingerborgstua (apparently a woman named Inga used to live here) full of shabby chic details made by Hulda herself.




Meet the owners, Hulda and Arnt Håvard




























A poem written by Hulda, which appeared in the newspaper, now hangs in her kitchen.

All images from here.

Cottage in Cape Ferret

A retired couple, wanting to escape the hectic life in Bordeaux, moved to this colonial style house in Cape Ferret, a headland located at the south end of the department of Gironde, in France. The interiors are a mixture of French and New England cottage styles. So relaxing and dreamy.










The painting above the above the console table is by artist Michel Brosseau.



















All images from here.
Have a splendid Tuesday, my friends!