Traditional English design is my absolute favorite. We had a pleasure of staying at a Norfolk cottage of our friend for the weekend and it was a bliss.Obviously the English weather affected the traditional English style by making it cosy, warm, full of details. Every room of our friend's houses had a bunch of fresh roses from the garden which explained lots of floral prints used in interior design throughout.
Also English cottages have lots of personality, antique furniture, lots of ancestors paintings, modern family pictures, fantastic cutlery and traditional dining tables.
I wasn't growing up in the British countryside but had exactly the same traditional ambiance around me.
Eye for detail and lots of accessories, eclecticism which somehow works very well are all features of the traditional English interior design for me.
English gardens are famous in the world and some neighboring nations even make jokes that gardening is sublimation of other activities that are overlooked by the British in favor of their roses.
Norfolk surprised us with its beautiful Norwich, lakes that are called the broads and absolutely serenely which probably is the reason of its geographic location.
We took a boat and discovered the broads. We've eaten at the gourmet pub which is one of the top 10 pubs in the UK. They produce their own beer and food was fresh and outstanding.
Overall we felt like a part of an Agatha Christie book but thankfully without any criminal activity around us!
Norfolk is highly recommended to anyone visiting the UK as the real Britain rather than more touristic Cotswolds, Kent or towns like Oxford or Cambridge. If you like the good old England of course!
