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    A Place Called Home: Print, colour, pattern
    A Place Called Home: Print, colour, pattern
    A Place Called Home: Print, colour, pattern
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    A Place Called Home: Print, colour, pattern

    By Cath Kidston and Christopher Simon Sykes

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    Cath Kidston – queen of vintage-inspired homeware and joyously decorated spaces – grants unprecedented insight into her creative process and personal style in this lifestyle-meets-memoir-meets-interior-design book.

    The name ‘Cath Kidston’ is associated worldwide with pattern, colour, dreamlike nostalgia, and comforting, cheerful spaces. In her new book, the founder of the eponymous brand invites us on a tour of her Gloucestershire home, sharing stories, decorating tips and inspirational ideas along the way.

    The book is divided into four chapters, each of them focusing on the 21 featured spaces in the book, including: Entrance Hall, Sitting Room, Study, Dining Room, Office, Kitchen, Dressing Room, Attic, Greenhouse and Summer House. There are also the whimsically themed rooms such as the Castle Bedroom and Fish Bathroom. Delve into Cath’s design process as she reveals the memories and motivations behind her style choices. With Cath’s expertise and advice you’ll discover how simple tricks make stimulating spaces; from using vintage-inspired prints to transform a quiet corner into an art gallery, to how the right rug can tie a room together and create a cosy, congenial atmosphere. Discussing colour, décor, pattern and passion in her own words, Cath will help make your house a beautiful, practical home.

    Filled with inspirational images, expert advice from an industry icon, and stories that reveal a remarkable life in design, this book will give you the confidence to click your heels and agree that there’s no place like home.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins UK
    Release dateMar 25, 2020
    ISBN9781911663331
    A Place Called Home: Print, colour, pattern
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    Cath Kidston

    Cath Kidston MBE is an English fashion designer, businesswoman, author and founder of Cath Kidston Limited, which sells home furnishing and related goods. Her designs are internationally famous and she is particularly known for her nostalgic floral patterns. She is the founder of creative design studio Joy of Print.

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      A Place Called Home - Cath Kidston

      ‘When we walked in I had that heart-stopping moment when I felt I could have been at home, and the feeling completely overtook me.’

      For fifteen years my husband, Hugh, and I lived in a beautiful old 17th-century farmhouse in a magical spot up a valley in Gloucestershire. It faced south, had a pretty terraced garden, and a glorious view across rolling countryside that was a patchwork of woods and meadows. But I had had a feeling for quite a few years that it was not the house that I wanted to grow old in. It had steep winding stairs, and rather small windows which all looked one way, there being none at the back of the house, and our sitting room only had windows down one side. It just wasn’t quite right, and though we had looked at ways of improving it and had drawn up plans to make some changes, it was going to be a lot of work. I had been brought up in a house that was light and airy – a bright, sunny, and cheerful home, where all the inspiration for my work stemmed from. I secretly longed to be back in a house that had that feeling of airiness, which might be somewhere that I would want to stay forever.

      I am the sort of person who finds it very hard to walk past an estate agent’s window without stopping to have a look, and I would get magazines every week to see what was for sale. I also made poor Hugh drive miles and miles around the countryside looking at houses. Though I loved the area, I didn’t think we’d find the kind of house I was looking for – Cotswolds homes tend to be small and pretty. One day, however, a copy of Country Life landed on our doorstep. Browsing through it, I came across some stunning photographs of a house sitting on the edge of a valley, which turned out to be just below where we had walked our dogs for years. Not one of our walks had ever taken us past this house; it’s tucked away and almost invisible, so we had never known it existed.

      Standing in a valley, the Cotswolds house was called Paradise, as romantic a name as one could wish for. It had probably been a modest farmhouse – one of many in the area, which had been at the centre of sheep farming in the 17th century. Then a wealthy merchant bought and enlarged it, and over the years other owners had added on to it, turning it into the rambling manor house it is today. We went to look at it, and when we arrived it was pouring with rain and was a really miserable day, but when we walked in I had that heart-stopping moment when I felt I could have been at home, and the feeling completely overtook me. The people who were living there had been there since the 1970s and hadn’t modernised it in the way that makes houses lose their character – it had all the old floors, fireplaces, sinks and cupboards, and was totally unspoilt. Being quite impatient people we both just thought: ‘Let’s move.’

      When we first moved in, of course I was thinking about decoration and how everything would work, and my main thought was that I wanted to settle in a house that would stay the way it was for our lifetime. I didn’t want it to be marked by what was fashionable that year. For practical and financial reasons, I wanted to accommodate as many of the belongings that we had brought with us as possible. But I also knew that we would have to buy some new things and get rid of some other things. That is how I started to think about it, as if I were putting together a giant jigsaw puzzle.

      For a year, while the builders were working on the structure, we lived in the cottage at the back. The house did need modernising in the sense that it had to be rewired and replumbed. It also needed a new roof, but apart from that there was very little structural work. We did open it up a bit, because the previous owners had used the top floor as a flat, which they had let to tenants, while the extension at the back was let separately as the cottage. Basically, we put it back to how it would have been as a merchant’s house. Where there were more bedrooms than we needed, we turned some of them into bathrooms. Then, when the builders finally left, we moved in pretty quickly and began to put the jigsaw together.

      We had a lot of furniture and stuff in storage. Some of it was from Hugh’s London house, which I had decorated – a job that had led to us getting together. Some of it came from my parents’ house in Wales. After my mother died, I had a lot of furniture left to me, such as a little four-poster bed that I had slept in as a child, and which is now in a room at the top of the house. Then there were dozens of paintings, many of them left to me by my great-aunt, Corise, a wonderful artist whom I adored. She

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