The house is usually built of red brick. And no exterior finishing no walls are provided. It is quite durable and beautiful material. And houses made from it, in an island and mild climate, have stood for centuries. This is actually why the ground floor is built at ground level. The foundations here are low. And you won’t see any porch or terrace at the front door.

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Very nice atmosphere in the kitchen. Classic look goes well with modern equipment.

In the village, houses are a little simpler than in the city. Here you can often see dwellings made of stone. An old British country house is usually smaller in size than a city house. And the second floor is often an attic. But in the village you can see roofs made of reeds and grass. They look very original and beautiful. Now we go out onto the terrace and admire again.

In ancient times, a roof covered with reeds or herbs spoke of the owner's poverty. But times are changing and today few wealthy home owners can afford such a roof. Nowadays, the presence of a thatched roof indicates the wealth of the owner of the house. Incredible cozy courtyard! Ideal for breakfast.

Usually on the ground floor there is a living room, a kitchen and an office, if provided. The bedroom, bathroom and other rooms are located on the next floors. The kitchen used to be small. Today they are trying to make it more so that dining table The whole family fit.

The living room often houses a fireplace, which is found in almost every British home. Traditionally, an armchair or sofa is placed opposite the fireplace. Near it, a tea table covered with a tablecloth would also be appropriate. In the office there is usually a table and an armchair, and bookshelves or a wardrobe for the same purpose.

The bedrooms have the usual set of furniture - a bed, a wardrobe and a chest of drawers. In general, in the home of the British there is a minimum set of furniture. There is never anything superfluous in them. Only the most necessary things and items.

Another traditional design element, albeit external, is the arrangement of a lawn and flower beds. The lawn is the pride of the home owner. It has been grown and refined for years. But numerous flower beds and flower beds are located both in front of the house and behind it. And this is another English tradition.

Dreams of durable, cozy and beautiful house may someday come to fruition. It all depends on how these dreams are combined with physical and mental efforts.

And if you have such (or a slightly different) house (or apartment), you need to be fully armed and finally arrange your home the way you wanted. And in order to know what you want, it is better to familiarize yourself with the interior that others have. In this article I propose to look at the interiors in english style. The photo below shows a classic living room with a carpet, a sofa and armchairs with ears. A low table in front of the sofa with a top covered in genuine leather is a calling card. English home. The combination of furniture with thin legs (sofa and armchairs) with more massive and voluminous ones in one room is also distinctive feature English.

The same “eared” chairs, but in colorful upholstery, books on the shelves, a twisted wrought-iron chandelier, lighting in the form of small floor lamps with fabric lampshades and, finally, a palm tree by the window - all this is a classic English interior.

An ordinary comfortable old chair next to the bed, where you can sit before going to bed and leaf through a book or watch TV. Everything is simple, but looking at this interior, you understand that everything in this house is good with comfort and arrangement!

Usually in an English house big windows decorated with floor-length curtains. This gives the rooms a special elegance.

Small rooms with low ceilings, panels on the walls made of natural wood, olive color walls and soft electrical and daylight create the atmosphere of an English home.

Wooden panels on the walls are preferably made from durable types of wood, which are treated in a special way to prevent mold and bugs.

Semicircular windows, dark olive-colored walls, large fireplace, massive cushioned furniture and palm trees, as witnesses of past colonial conquests of the British. Much of the interior, like strange plants, appeared in the homes of the British thanks to the fearless sailors who brought it all from their long sea voyages.

Placing upholstered furniture in one room with different upholstery for some reason it does not evoke a feeling of disunity in the interior, but quite the opposite. There is something elusive and unifying in this environment.

A fireplace or stove, which needs to be heated with wood, will warm its owners in any frost. And how great it is to come after a slushy and cold street, light the fireplace and sit next to you, listen to the firewood crackle and feel the warmth flowing through the room.

Evenings by the lit fireplace in a narrow circle of family, what could be better?

Winter evenings will not seem tiresomely long; in such a small room next to your loved ones it is warm and you don’t want to go anywhere.

And around the fireplace you can place all the portraits and small paintings dear to your heart.

The chimney is like a home decoration.

A bedroom in an English house is a well-appointed room. The bed is the main piece of furniture, always beautiful and fundamental.

Not only the furniture in an English house is solid, but also other interior items. The British don't fill their house with cheap trinkets, and once they bring something into the house, it's permanent.

The secret of quality and quality English furniture is to use natural materials for its manufacture and the skill of furniture makers.

This metal bed with a wrought-iron headboard looks elegant and light. Bright room filled with sun and fresh air.

Such a bed is covered with a ruffled bedspread; pillowcases on the pillows and curtains on the windows should match it.

All English furniture is reliable and high quality, serving several generations.

And this girl's bedroom is in soft blue with lots of colored pillows.

Here is a bedroom for adult family members. Every centimeter of space is used here. But everything is in its place, everything pleases the eye.

Once upon a time, the canopy over the bed was evidence of the greatness of its owner. Nowadays, romantic people place this addition to the bedroom interior over their beds.

Order in the house means order in your thoughts, success in work, a calm and measured life.

They carefully arrange not only the bedroom, but also the kitchen. This is a special place in the house where food is prepared; it is always cozy, smells delicious, and has an abundance of sunlight and flowers.

Here everything is at hand, everything is familiar and familiar. And it has always been this way, because conservative Englishmen honor their traditions and maintain the connection between generations. wonderful self made furniture is passed down from grandmother to granddaughter.

English cuisine can be in light colors with mandatory covers on chairs, with fabric curtains on glass doors wardrobes, with lace curtains on the windows.

IN English cuisine There is always a lot of dishes. English porcelain is renowned for its quality, both ancient and modern.

Dishes in England were always made not only of porcelain and earthenware, but also of ceramic and metal.

How nice it is to celebrate holidays in such a reliable and beautiful house, for example, New Year and Christmas. Fresh pine or Christmas tree branches, lit candles, waiting for a miracle.

And here is the Christmas tree, in the evening it will gather the whole family in this small living room.

Such New Year's evenings with family are remembered forever and live in our childhood memories as the best.

To make your fairytale home not only cozy and comfortable on the inside, but also pleasing to the eye on the outside, it should be surrounded by green spaces.

Trees, flowers, climbing plants there will never be too many if they are well maintained. Of course, such a house is more like the abode of the gnomes from English fairy tales, but the flowers are real.

Without the wonderful plants around this house it would be empty and lonely.

And this, albeit small, but such a nice house, also looks good.

I would like to live in such an old place brick house, decorated with a climbing trellis rose.

And in front of the house or on open terrace put this swing sofa with a lace cape.

On such a sunny terrace, among the abundance of plants, it is easy to breathe.

The sofa can be placed not only on the veranda or terrace, but also in the garden in front of the house and admire the daisies, cornflowers and asters in moments of relaxation.

The British, like many people on Earth, value nature and love trees and flowers, so they surround their homes with them.

Such a house should have a simple but comfortable interior.

All these houses have their own face, look closely and you will see it too.

Even from the photograph you can feel the warmth of human hands, with what love and businesslike everything was done. A Domestic bird only adds color to this rural idyll.

“My home is my castle” - not only the British say so now. After all, all people in the world understand that their home is part of the happy existence of an entire family.

There is no need to copy the English way of life, their houses and interiors. We are different, but no one forbids us to adopt experience and learn from other peoples the quality of life, improve our culture of life, equip our home, relying on the achievements and skills of Europeans.

You will find historical excursion to the origins of a comfortable and so sweet-looking English home. Photos of houses and interiors are modern.

In the 16th-17th centuries, England became the center of world trade and a powerful colonial power. Country estates are becoming the defining type of English housing. During this period, the architecture, named after the ruling dynasty, was called “Tudor”. The estates have already lost their serf character, residential buildings have increased in width, large and frequent windows and bay windows replaced the slit-like openings of medieval castles.

At this time, many Flemish architects were working in England, fleeing the persecution of the Spanish Inquisition; they had a significant influence on the development of decorative motifs in the design of buildings. Requirements for reliability and defense capability have given way to concerns about best lighting and ventilation of the premises, now the housing had to be comfortable, have not only cozy living rooms, but also beautiful formal rooms, and the beauty of their decoration would testify to the power and wealth of the owner.

As before, in the center of the house, as in medieval castles, there was a hall - a ceremonial hall, but now it was richly decorated along the walls with carved oak panels, and above them were hung hunting trophies, weapons and portraits of famous ancestors. The ceiling was covered with stucco or carved open rafters.

On one side of the hall there were living rooms, and on the other - utility rooms. This configuration of the house goes back to the ancient wooden dwelling of the Saxons, where utility and living quarters were located around a threshing floor, the ceiling of which was open rafters roofs. An indispensable attribute of the house was a huge fireplace that reached almost to the ceiling. And another characteristic detail is the wide staircase in the hall, decorated with sculptures and carved wooden railings. The owners of the estate were very proud of the beauty and size of the staircase.

The outside of the building was clad in brick with white cut stone trim. These details were decorated with intertwining curls of carvings, masks, and figures of monsters. The contrasting combination of decorative white stone parts and brick surfaces makes characteristic feature English architecture.

At the same time, in English villages they begin to build large quantities half-timbered houses(the influence of Flemish architects affected). Their facades are covered with fine mesh wooden beams- half-timbered structures that stood out brightly against the background of white plaster and picturesquely decorated the streets of villages and small towns.

Two centuries later, the residential buildings of Victorian England, common in both town and country, retained many of the architectural features of the manor houses of the past, but became more compact. The center of the building was still made up of the traditional hall and staircase, and the remaining rooms were grouped around them.

Utility rooms moved to ground floor. As before, the houses were brick with white stone trim, and in the center of the facade there was a door framed by white columns.

Were especially attractive cozy interiors similar houses. Their decor was based on antique motifs. Walls covered with carved oak panels, carved fireplaces and white staircases decorated with sculpture.

And in the rooms - stylish furniture Chippendale, a famous master of that time, as if “quilted” with many nails. The next generations of their inhabitants fell in love with the coziness and comfort of these houses, carefully preserving the interiors and supplementing them with objects from their eras. As a result, a completely formed original style- a traditional English house.

Loyalty to traditions, as is known, distinguishing feature English. The reason for this was the island isolation, the reserved character, and the measured way of life of the subjects of the kingdom. The well-known motto “My home is my fortress!” - this is a kind of philosophy of their life. And in our time, respectable Englishmen prefer antiquity to avant-garde, and authenticity to stylization, so if there is oak furniture in the house, then it is really made of solid oak, and not finished “to look like oak”. Everything in this house is installed firmly and for a long time and is passed on unchanged from generation to generation. For example, the Windsor hard chair made of wood, invented three hundred years ago and is just as popular today. And the wood species used to make furniture are the same as many centuries ago: oak, walnut, yew. But this furniture, on which many generations of ancestors sat, seems to be surrounded by a special aura and creates the indescribable charm of an English home.

Each new generation of its inhabitants, without changing anything inherited from their ancestors, brought something of their own to the environment. Thus, wicker rattan furniture for the terrace was brought from the colonies, and Arab lamps, Japanese screens and engravings were brought from travels to the East. And, as a result of the gradual acquisition, pieces of furniture in the interior differ in tone and style, generally creating a kind of harmony.

Textiles occupy a large place in the decor of an English home: lampshades, covers on sofas and chairs, pillows and blankets on armchairs, curtains and canopies over the bed. The color scheme is usually light and calm. And the designs are varied from Scottish checks and printed chintz with small flowers in the kitchen, strict stripes on silk and colored cashmere in the living room to luxurious bouquets of “English” roses on the canopy, bedspreads and curtains in the bedroom.

A typically English design with lush bouquets of roses scattered on a light background has become popular not only in England. But he could have been born there: with such curtains and a canopy over the bed you can isolate yourself from the humid fog and drizzle outside the window, recalling centuries-old English lawns and luxurious flower beds. Plain, striped, small plant pattern or covered with antique oak panels, the walls of the house are decorated with tapestries and paintings: watercolors, engravings, landscapes, oil paintings, of course, originals.

An indispensable attribute of a house in foggy and cool England is a fireplace. It can be different: simply decorated with bleached bricks with a dark wood mantel, lined with tiles or natural stone. But in any case, this is the center of the living room, around it there is upholstered furniture, low tables, woolen carpets with a dim pattern on wooden floor. Such fireplaces look very stylish even in modern interiors:

The kitchen in an English house is a special room. Good quality solid wood furniture, carved and painted bright hues: chest of drawers, slide with dishes, open shelves with ceramics, most often blue and white. Plates with discreet patterns of all sizes, candlesticks, teapots. What was previously used today serves as a decoration for the kitchen. Modern Appliances in such a kitchen it is “hidden”, but the decoration of the kitchen is the hearth-fireplace, which was previously used for warmth and cooking, but now creates cozy atmosphere old house.

All the details of everyday life in such a house, be it trinkets and souvenirs on the mantelpiece, a carpet, a lamp, a painting or furniture on the terrace, correspond to the customs and habits of this particular family and are associated with family stories and legends. English interiors of the Victorian era are very individual and natural - this is their main distinguishing feature and this is also the special charm of the style of a traditional English house.

Unfortunately, now modern Englishmen of average income do not strive to follow centuries-old traditions, while Russian-speakers who have moved to Albion are happy and meticulous in recreating replicas of such spectacular Victorian interiors, beloved from books, skillfully incorporating British notes into the modern style with the help of designers:

Classicism of English style for decoration country houses attracts both designers and ordinary people with its functionality, rigor and ability to well demonstrate the taste and character of its guests. Photos of English-style houses demonstrate the external roughness of unlined facades with low window openings and a bright red tiled roof.

Distinctive elements outside English apartments are considered:

• wall surfaces made of natural stone elements or bricks;
• lack of carved parts;
• asymmetry in the location of the exterior composition;
• presence of columns;
• narrow color palette;
• gable roof;
• The area near the house is planted with a garden and flowers.

Types of English country buildings

The architecture of English buildings is recognizable all over the world. There are three main architectural and construction trends with their own characteristics and features.

Tudor house style. Visually, such buildings resemble fairy-tale village houses. However, the appearance is a little rough.

The main architectural features of this type are:

• the presence of high pediments on the main façade;
• roof with steep slope and uneven edges;
• large chimney and miniature dormer windows;
• the general outlines of the building are asymmetrical;
• the entrance has an arched design.

Georgian architectural style. For modern English world This direction of development is the most popular. Georgian buildings look magnificent and simple at the same time.

The direction is characterized by the following features:

• symmetry;
• window openings of the same size, which have the same location;
• absence various kinds decorations;
• the main facade of the building is decorated with five windows;
• the entrance door is located very low;
• low roof.

Victorian direction. Is different decorative cladding and contrasting color combinations.

Its features:

• asymmetrical arrangement;
• overall veranda area;
• decorative finishing of wall surfaces with stone or siding;
• ornamental and stucco elements.

The main feature of houses made in the English style is the construction of the building from red brick. Thanks to this material, which has a very reasonable cost, the life of the house increases.

Another advantage is high sound insulation qualities indoors.

An English apartment project is characterized by the presence of two full floors and, in some cases, an attic. The entrance to the room is located in the middle.

Architectural features

The foundation of a typical English residential building is very low, so the floor surface practically coincides with the ground plane. You won’t be able to find the usual basements and garages in the house, since the English style does not imply this.

Sometimes owners can equip a small cellar or storage room in their home. External facade they are not decorated or covered in any way, so it looks rather rough.

Window openings of rectangular or square shape of the first level are located low. The roof of the house is covered with red tiles, its shape is sharp, and the structure is very high. IN last years roofs English houses made from straw or reed.

A porch is attached to a house only if the building is located on a site with a slope. And here entrance doors and the windows are often framed by awnings.

The ivy climbing along the canopy brings special luxury to the design of an English-style house. It is customary to plant small gardens and create picturesque flower beds next to English residential buildings.

Layout inside the house

The main living area of ​​the first floor is represented by a spacious living room, which, as a rule, is combined with a dining room, corridor areas and a hall. The guest room must be made light, since there is a lot of light in the room. window openings. Another room on the first level is a study.

The second floor is considered the sleeping area. There are three bedrooms in total, one of which has a bathroom and wardrobe.

Interior composition of the house

The main conditions for creating internal English interior for a private home are comfort and coziness. The living room is arranged in such a way that it is comfortable for all guests and household members to be here.

As finishing materials, typical for work in the English style, choose natural wood. Floor surfaces covered with a noble parquet covering.

The chosen direction is characterized by large spacious areas for the living room, however, with the help design techniques and in small rooms It is possible to create a project that is distinguished by its effectiveness and style.

A mandatory element of interior decoration, characteristic of the English style, is a fireplace. It acts as the center of the entire interior composition in the guest area.

You can cover the fireplace various materials in the form of marble, wood or lime panels. On the shelf above the fireplace it is customary to display clocks, bronze sculptures, flowerpots with flowers and snuff boxes with cigarette cases.

The English stylistic direction is perfect for decorating a private country residence.

Photos of English style houses