While I love English manor houses, they aren’t exactly practical for most people which is why I love rectories, vicarages, and parsonages. They are the smaller homes that were reserved for members of the clergy located next to the local church. Since they are a more manageable size, they are usually more relatable and offer […]

Faringdon House in Oxfordshire, England was the house on which Nancy Mitford based the fictional house Merlinford in her book The Pursuit of Love. In reality, it was the home of composer, painter, and novelist Lord Berners, who inherited the house in 1918 and lived in it from 1931 until his death in 1950. Faringdon played host to […]

I follow both India Hicks and David Flint Wood on Instagram but I don’t remember either of them giving it away that they were building an English country house in Oxfordshire, England. Perhaps, it was because they were saving the surprise for the June 2017 issue of Architectural Digest in which it’s featured. They partnered […]