English Houses: Inspirational Interiors from City Apartments to Country Manor Houses Hardcover – October 11, 2016

This book truly proves that the best homes are collected, assembled over time, and personal. Mr. Pentreath's narrative about the owners of the homes lets you get to know the history of the house and the personality of the owners. As a fan of Mr. Pentreath's blog, I had high expectations for this book which were happily exceeded.

This is a fabulous book. Lovely photos that I will look at again and again. All the rooms shown are lovely- no wasted pages. This is a keeper for a permanent library.

Beautiful and inspiring! Probably one of the best interior books I've bought in quite a while, and I keep coming back to it.

Such a refreshing, easy to relate to book on design! I've since bought x4 copies for friends interested in design

I have to admit that I like Ben's first book a little more than his second. I thought this book would be about homes that Ben designed, not just photos of his friends' homes. But none the less, the photos are great, and they illustrate layered rooms that look comfortable and well lived-in.

A second book by B. Pentreath with a good estructure, pictures and joyful hours of browsing and studying

Beautiful book. The coloring is gorgeous and I enjoyed the narrative along with the plctures

It's a beautiful book. I will be buying his other one.

I have both Ben Pentreath's books ons English style houses and love them. The combination of antiques,comfortable seats and sofa's lovely curtains and wallpapers and always, always a wonderfull assortiment of bookcases filled with books. It's lightly excentric and at the same time no nonsense. The foto's are of good quality and the portraid corners and rooms are a lust for the eye. In every corner there is something to see, and that can be an antique clock or a simple mug, a beautifully yellow coloured wall or the infamous William Morris materials and wallpapers.

This book is stunning, but it arrived damaged, and then the replacement copy arrived damaged in the same spot as well. I'm very disappointed.

C est vraiment un livre de decoration d interieur absolument splendide. Exactement le style anglais cosy et moderne a la fois.

I received this book for Christmas along with a number of other interiors hardbacks (all on my list!) This was way by far my favourite. What is wonderful about it is that the homes featured a real, not overdone stage sets - you can see a set of keys on the side, some gardening gloves - a worn chair, even a pile of junk in one corner of a room. It feels as though one has just been invited in to look around a number of wonderful houses that are natural and comfortable but endowed with innate stylish flair. This is where you can find real examples of original English decorating where curtains and covers are not replaced just because they are a bit worn or don't entirely match. Where pieces of furniture of different types sit happily together because they are handsome and useful and perhaps passed down through the generations. Lots of wonderful colour too - no 50 shades of grey here. If you do not want your house to look like a hotel or show home (oddly some people do) then look at this to give you inspiration - not only that - to give you the courage to keep Granny's bookcase and put an old vase on top because you like it, not because you saw it in the latest swanky interiors shop! Much cheaper to decorate this way - much more comfortable and stylish too. We all develop and mature and become more confident with our decorating . If you read this and Ben's earlier book you will see that he has too. I heartily recommend this one...

Gorgeous book with some of the most beautiful - but relatable - rooms I’ve ever seen. Ben’s style is faultless and fun and has inspired us in our home. I seem to keep getting this book out nearly every day, not something I can say of any other interiors book.