Take a tour around a rural home in County Down

This extended 1960s bungalow with a Georgian yard and early medieval ringfort features a hallway, living room, kitchen-diner, drawing room, home office, conservatory, boot room, cloakroom, four bedrooms (one en suite), dressing room and two bathrooms.

This extended 1960s bungalow with a Georgian yard and early medieval ringfort features a hallway, living room, kitchen-diner, drawing room, home office, conservatory, boot room, cloakroom, four bedrooms (one en suite), dressing room and two bathrooms.

1/8 Exterior

sloping roof house with white windows and grass lawn

(Image credit: Derek Robinson)

2/8 Living room

living room with photoframes on white walls and white book shelf

(Image credit: Derek Robinson)

Equine artworks on the walls and comfortable linen-covered sofas with floral cushions lend a relaxed look to this country living room.

Equine prints
Sally Mitchell Fine Arts
Similar sofa
The Conran Shop

3/8 Kitchen-diner

kitchen room with wooden flooring and photoframe on wall

(Image credit: Derek Robinson)

This classic country kitchen is fitted with cream painted kitchen cabinets with wood worktops and has an original 1950s Aga.

Similar range cooker
Aga
Similar cutlery tray
Folksy

4/8 Boot room

boot room with flagstone flooring and plant in pots

(Image credit: Derek Robinson)

This room has plenty of storage for coats and boots. Flagstone flooring and a beautiful panelled ceiling create a rustic country look.

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Beach
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Nordic House

5/8 Hallway

hallway with wooden flooring and photoframes on wall

(Image credit: Derek Robinson)

A smart console table and a colourful rug from Marrakech draw the eye along the light wood floor in this neutral country hallway.

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Neptune
Similar Oriental rug

JW Jennings

6/8 Bathroom

bathroom with tiled flooring and white bathtub

(Image credit: Derek Robinson)

A traditional washstand and mirror give a decorative look to this bathroom. The claw-foot bath sits on French limestone tiles and is positioned to give a view across the fields.

Roll-top bath
Fired Earth
Wirework shelf
Live Laugh Love

7/8 Main bedroom

master bedroom with four poster bed and photoframes on wall

(Image credit: Derek Robinson)

Antique pieces from auctions, such as a bamboo four-poster bed, and soft white bedlinen create a traditional look in this bedroom.

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Willis & Gambier

8/8 Guest bedroom

guest bedroom with rug on floor and bed with pillows

(Image credit: Derek Robinson)

Delicate white lace curtains panels offset the handsome solid-wood furniture in this traditional bedroom scheme.

Four-poster bed
And So To Bed
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MYB Textiles

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Heather Young
Editor

Heather Young has been Ideal Home’s Editor since late 2020, and Editor-In-Chief since 2023. She is an interiors journalist and editor who’s been working for some of the UK’s leading interiors magazines for over 20 years, both in-house and as a freelancer.