Maybe it's the influence of my Yorkshire-born granny but my style is decidedly English. I went to the bookstore yesterday and brought home two magazines simply for their cozy, flower-strewn editorials. I'll never be able to resist a tiny floral print layered just right or a London abode filled to the brim with textiles, paintings and bunches of hyacinth.
Annabel Astor's home as featured in House and Garden. Photographed by Simon Brown. 2nd photo via Moodboard + This is Glamorous from Lucky Magazine.
pretty green molding. so nice.
really love the mix of formal & comfort, buttoned-up & relaxed in the room picture.
Me too 🙂 Gorgeous.
Saw that bottom look from Lucky at Barnes the other day and loved it. Those flowery pants just caught my eye.
I’m totally with you on that, Chelsea! I grew up in an English colony and my sister and her fam live in the Somerset. I always really love when you post scenes from pretty English houses, so thanks!
Ah, Yorkshire … God’s own county, as they call it… and it’s where I am and it IS lovely 🙂
couldn’t agree with you more — adore all things british and thought of you when first saw that lucky editorial & knew you would love it 🙂
xo
Love Annabel Astor’s living room!
someone send me that moth winged cardigan…
ASAP
Loving it, offto grab allmy old paintings and get clustering! I’m half yorkshire and prood – glad you’re a yorkshire girl too! x
i have no yorkshire-born granny, but i love english style, too. must keep an eye out for that magazine.
Living in England I am lucky to have this inspiration all around me, however the ultimate English House experience has to be Chatsworth House.
that bottom picture is especially delightful!
I too can never resist floral prints (and if it’s a floral liberty print, all the better!)
Chelsea, you must plan a visit while I’m there. It would be so fun.
I often feel the same way – but about European and English design in general. Why can’t Americans have such taste?
Don’t resist the flowers! That room wouldn’t be quite as lovely without them, somehow.
Oh, I love the layered art over the molding, sooo classic.
Me too! I spent a summer in Cambridge and I’m convinced that’s my real home. Also, I’m obsessed with George Eliot, Virginia Woolf, tea, and animal toparies….
Looks so lovely and cozy!! xoxo
when we are old and slow and wrinkled, let’s retire to a cottage in the english countryside. we’ll grow roses, bake scones, putter around drinking tea, and make eyes at the handsome huntsmen who stroll through our back field looking for grouse.
deal?
glad you are back to blogging, chelsea! keep up the english posts, they are great.
love the outfit! those pants are delicious.
the flowers look so soft
oh yes, this is so, so you!
xo
English style is great. I am about to go back and help set up my old bedroom for my 6 year old sister, time to play around!
Such a timeless style. I love it too.
Oh, this post made me smile:)