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 • Our monthly edit of news, shopping inspiration and inside information

DESIGN DISCOVERIES • Make rooms feel luxuriously cosy – from comfortable furnishings and fittings, to finishing touches that glow and glitter – to welcome the new year in the best style

ALPINE TEXTURES • An understated natural palette mixing sophisticated patinas and softly rustic details, alpine-style decor laces winter schemes with an inviting sensory appeal

JOIN THE SKILLS SET • Embrace the start of the year by taking up a new hobby, nurturing an artistic talent or simply making the time to be creative or write a diary

THE EDIT • Editor-at-Large Kate Freud shares the new products and brand discoveries that have caught her eye this month

DRESSED to celebrate • Characterful antiques and personal touches have brought life back to food writer Skye McAlpine’s London townhouse, creating a charming space for both entertaining and life with her young family

Beaming with JOY • A unique Kentish home that celebrates bygone rural architecture provides the warmest of welcomes for Sarah and Andrew Charlesworth’s family Christmas

Collective VISION • A fruitful collaboration with an interior designer has ensured Rebecca and Rob Stirling’s vision for a stylish, welcoming home has been brought beautifully to life

A Country CHRISTMAS • Designer Emma Diaz and her husband, Serafin, have sensitively transformed a lacklustre cottage to create a joyful, colourful family home filled with personality

STYLE INSPIRATION • Interior designers reveal their resolutions, we recognise design achievements with our New Year Honours, and offer expert guides to lighting and festive table settings

Ringing in THE NEW • From unexpected colour palettes to making clever environmental choices, interiors specialists and tastemakers share their plans and designs intentions for the year ahead

New Year HONOURS AWARDS 2024 • This year we reflect on innovative and inventive design, sustainable endeavours, new ventures, craftsmanship, home-grown talent and remarkable achievements

Making a statement • From an oversized chandelier to a table lamp with a scalloped shade or a gorgeously curvy brass wall lamp, we look at options for stylish lighting

Perfect SETTING • From plates and glasses to napkins and cutlery, create a Christmas table suited to the occasion

LIVING THE SEASON • Inspiration for seasonal pastimes and making the most of life at home starts here

What to do in JANUARY • This is the month to add decorative flourishes with winter whites and woodland foliage, to find time to write thank you letters, and to make fritters to enjoy with family and friends.

Winter WONDERLAND • Take the magic of the festive season outside with simple decorative touches and whimsical scenes that will create enchanting garden backdrops to transform winter parties and cosy Christmas drinks

My English Home • Living in a green and leafy corner of East London with her young family, the artist Martha Freud finds her home is an inspiration for her work