英式装饰风格实用，没那么正式，它是围绕房间的居住者和他们的生活方式设计的，而不是为了让人惊叹或给人留下深刻印象。这些房子的室内舒适、令人放松，不用担心过于漂亮，因此深受居住者们的喜爱。

本书的章节——普通英式、英式古怪、英国玫瑰、英国乡村住宅和经典英式——反映了英式风格的各个方面，每一章的结尾都提供了用所有这些英式的版本装饰房屋的建议和想法。本书的后面还有一个全面的供应商列表，以帮助读者打造自己的完美英式风格。

“The sheer variety of interiors featured in this enjoyable book is happy evidence that an English tradition still thrives.” Review of English Eccentric in The World of Interiors.

The English style in interior design is admired and imitated the world over.

At its grandest it is a stately home furnished with antiques, but the houses featured in this book are cottages, farmhouses, townhouses and apartments. What links them is as much an attitude as a look. The English style of decoration is practical and informal, designed around the inhabitants of the rooms and their lifestyles rather than to awe or impress. These houses are lived in and loved, with interiors that are comfortable, relaxed and not afraid to be pretty.

The book’s chapters – Plain English, English Eccentric, English Rose, English Country House and Classic English – reflect the many and varied facets of English style, and each section ends with pages devoted to suggestions for furnishing a house in all these versions of English style. At the back of the book, there is also a listing of suppliers to help readers create their very own take on perfect English style