Take a tour around a vintage country home
Find country style decorating inspiration from this retro country home. Housetohome takes a closer look at a retro country house.
Although a new-build, with its classic timber frame the house looks like a well established country home.
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Candy-coloured furniture and accessories give this kitchen-diner a country feel. Pretty tableware is kept proudly on display in glass cabinet doors, while vintage signs complete the retro look.
Get the look: The clock is from Newgate and the tea towel is in a Laura Ashley fabric. The walls are painted in Zoffany Buttermilk. For a similar chandelier try Jim Lawrence. The lights, cake stand and blue bread bin are from Laura Ashley.
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Flowers from the garden and pretty floral tableware create a pretty display on the chunky wooden kitchen table. Painted cabinetry is perfect for a country kitchen and a tile splashback in neutral tones adds interest.
Get the look: For similar cabinetry, try Magnet. The rosebud china, came from an antiques shop and the cutlery with assorted coloured handles from Cath Kidston.
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Set the perfect table for tea and cakes with a pretty cakestand and ditsy floral tableware.
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Keep your favourite country-style kitchenalia on display with wall-mounted shelving. Here a traditional plate rack is painted sugary pink to add a quirky touch of retro nostalgia.
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Get the look: The antique pink shelves were painted by the owner
but for similar, try The Dormy House. The green, blue and red lanterns came from Laura Ashley, the dolly mixture picture from Huttons, 01753 867331.
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Vintage signs and accessories are essential to the retro country look.
Get the look: The campervan and the cupcakes pictures came
from Huttons, 01753 867331, the striped candlestick, blue jug and floral teapot from Laura Ashley and the blue floral tray from Cath Kidston.
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For a more formal and traditional look in the dining room, the owners have gone for dark-wood dining chairs and continued the vintage country-style dining room look with floral seat-covers.
Get the look: The table, chairs and seat pads came from Marks & Spencer, the armchair, chandelier, curtains and curtain pole are from Laura Ashley, and the clock is from Newgate.
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Chunky wood furniture is teamed with a white sofa and loose covers to create a relaxed feel in this living room.
Get the look: The sofa came from Collins & Hayes with cushions in an Ian Mankin fabric. The coffee table, curtains and curtain pole came from Laura Ashley, and the lamp is from Su Chases Interiors.
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Smart chinaware is essential for a stylish dinner party with family and friends.
Get the look: The glasses are antique but for similar try William Yeoward, for similar blue-and-white china try Potts & Bench.
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Pretty floral bedlinen and upholstery are teamed with chunky furniture and a classic white-painted bedstead in this bedroom. A large chest lies at the foot of the bed and is ideal for storing extra linens and blankets.
Get the look: The bedlinen came from Cath Kidston, and the mirror from John Lewis. The bedside lamps came from Laura Ashley, the lampshades and cushions are from Cath Kidston.
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A dressing area is created in the corner of the bedroom with a vintage hanging mirror, and a chest of drawers for tucking away all of her treasured bits and pieces.
Get the look: The walls are painted in Laura Ashley Creamware. The curtain fabric and chair came from Laura Ashley and the cushions are from Cath Kidston and Laura Ashley.
Feeling inspired? Step inside more stylish homes with our house tour photo galleries but watch our country kitchen decorating video for 5 key ways to get the look.
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.
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