These are my photos from Standen House , there are loads of them , so you may wish to grab a drink and sit and enjoy or flick through at a rapid rate , or skip completely but if you love Arts and Crafts and William Morris you will find lots to look at.
The entrance
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3 Corner of front walled entrance
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5 Corner of billiard room which had two screens with videos of William Morris and his work , running which was why it's dark in this corner.
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7 Lovely bright wallpaper in the downstairs hallways
8 Conservatory/ Garden room where lots of swathes of William Morris fabric were spread around.
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12 Loved this screen, a good idea for getting some more WM fabric in the house...
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14 Sitting room
15 the stairs
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17 Another gorgeous wallpaper
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19 One of the bedrooms
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23 The dressing room with a built in wardrobe which was rare at the time.
24 another bedroom
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27 This room was having the floor polished by hand by volunteers.
28 Dinning room
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31 This rooms walls were all hang with fabric.
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35 more pattern wallpaper in another hallway
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37 The shop set up
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44 The National Trust shop selling William Morris.. alas i could only buy a small note book while drawling over the treasures available!
Well I won't put the garden photos on here but on the garden blog but lots of inspiration was found in this gorgeous house and it's contents.
I did say to Paul you could make me a conservatory/garden room just like the one in this house, he just smiled and said yes dear.... he knows I'm serious but he realises that I'll be dazzled by something else in time, hopefully much much smaller that he can make and stir me away from my grand plans !
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Surely this is what heaven looks like!
ReplyDeleteI do believe it must be!
DeleteWhat a beautiful house, thanks for sharing. As an alternative to a conservatory maybe you can go for the screen?
ReplyDeleteIt is and you are welcome. Yes I could start with the screen... lol
DeleteOh my oh my! How could you not purchase a small piece of that fabric heaven to bring home Dee? Thank you so much for sharing all the beautiful photos, my gob is full of slobber now. :)
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It was in-creditably hard not to purchase loads! But I restrained myself and just bought a WM note book.
DeleteGlad you enjoyed them xx
P.S. I was thinking perhaps you could settle for the screen, I'm sure between yourself and Paul you could pull it off. :)
ReplyDeleteI think it will have to be the screen... at least for now.. lol
DeleteWOW, you must have been completely in your element Dee when you entered here! And all that lovely fabric everywhere. Definitely looks like an enjoyable place to visit.
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lol It was, I could have stayed all day if we'd not been going on to visit with Courtney, Mike and Clara.
DeleteI'd have loved to have sat in their make believe showroom and looked through all the fabric's and books of wallpaper.. bliss.. :) xx