Heritage Style by Selina Lake

I don’t think I need to introduce you to Selina Lake, her interior books are firm favourites with many. Her new publication Heritage Style is another gem of a book one that I am quite passionate about, every page is a feast for the eyes drawing you into a comforting space that you can then recreate in your own home with a little thought and passion.

Our homes are our havens, they are so much more important to us than ever before, this beautiful book makes us think about what is reassuring, comforting and inviting. Heritage style focuses on traditional interiors, panelling, floorboards, wallpaper, floral and checked fabrics, soft heritage paint colours that create backdrops for preloved furniture, artwork, vases of seasonal foliage and flowers. Simple, pretty decorative detailing that makes a house a home, welcoming, familiar, safe. Celebrating a traditional and comforting style by using vintage and inherited furnishings to bring a new nostalgic mood into our interiors. It’s a fresh take on how we choose to live and decorate our homes but also a sustainable choice too, built around pre loved pieces sourced at salvage warehouses and decorative home fairs and online vintage sales given a new lease of life to our modern homes. Heritage Style guides us gently in showing us how to create a home that not only feels fresh and modern but with added nostalgia. At the same time utterly lived in, an inviting easy laid back look with a dollop of personal touches added in for good measure.

Whatever kind of property you live in be it a new build or a period home this book will guide you into putting back or creating the heritage style that you are seeking. It is timeless but fresh at the same time, its my kind of look that I try to replicate in my own home. By adding the those precious time worn pieces that have stories to tell, mixing old with new, wood, linens, fabrics, books, vintage mirrors, soft furnishings, ceramics all these things picked up over years of sourcing and coming across on my travels.

The book is broken up into easy segments starting with the inspiration behind the style and the elements within it, listing architectural and period features worthy of salvaging or adding back such as windows and fireplaces, panelling and joinery. Timeless colour and pattern, through paint and fabrics for a fresh modern feel but influenced by the past alongside furniture how to mix old and new seamlessly. It is then broken down into spaces, welcoming hallways and entrances, relaxed living rooms, entertaining kitchens and dining areas, soothing bedrooms and bathrooms, practical spaces such as work rooms and pantries then onto our outdoor spaces even to garden can take on the heritage style with aplomb.

If you are like me and you can’t get enough of this beautiful timeless style then this is the book for you. It would make the perfect Easter gift too alongside the chocolate egg and hot cross buns.

With thanks to Ryland Peters & Small for gifting Heritage Style for the purpose of this post.

Heritage Style by Selina Lake, published by Ryland Peters & Small (£25)