Create a home that flows, functions and truly feels like you.  

With over two decades of experience, interior designer Jojo Barr (Founder and Creative Director of House Nine) is passionate about crafting authentic and timeless interiors that people can actually live in. Drawing on House Nine projects, and complete with stunning full-color photography, Jojo shares her human-focused approach to design, so you can have a home that is unmistakably yours.   

Rather than prescribing a single style or aesthetic, Jojo breaks down the design process into clear, approachable ideas, exploring:  

• Flow and connection between rooms, and how this shapes the experience of moving through a home.  
• Designing with purpose, ensuring every space supports how you live.   
• The use of color, tone, and texture to build harmony while allowing each room its own personality.  
• How to balance cohesion and individuality so a home feels connected without becoming uniform.  
• Layering materials and finishes to add depth. 
• Creating lived‑in interiors that embrace imperfection and evolve over time.  

Structured to mirror the natural journey of creating a home—from early inspiration and planning to curating, living, and sharing—this book pairs Jojo’s House Nine philosophy with real projects and photography designed both to inspire and enjoy.  
   
Whether you’re redesigning a single room, rethinking your entire house, or simply spending time with interiors you love, this book explores how to create a home that looks beautiful and works for the life lived inside it. A timeless coffee table book for real living. 

Based on the hugely popular blog, magazine, and Instagram account of the same name, The Bible of British Taste explores the meaning of traditional British style. Rejecting the pristine and predictable in favour of the lived-in and characterful, this is an aesthetic created from art, antiques, the reused, found and hand-made and the layers of history laid down by generations of home makers.  

As author Ruth Guilding puts it: ‘My personal mantra for the descriptions of people and their houses in this book roughly seems to be that old stuff is good, and perfection is boring.'

Taking her contexts from William Morris, the Bloomsbury set and today’s leading artistic makers and innovators, Guilding explores the meaning of ‘home’ and our everlasting preoccupation with domestic taste, self-presentation and decorating styles,       

With hundreds of images of remarkable gardens and interiors, domestic icons and folk art narratives, and featuring renowned tastemakers– from Sir Roy Strong and Jasper Conran to Luke Edward Hall, Bridget Elworthy of the Land Gardeners and Ben Pentreath – The Bible of British Taste shines a new light on the quirky charms of unconventional British style.

With unrivalled access to some of Britain’s most extraordinary homes, this is the definitive guide to the nation’s most distinctive interiors – a book that belongs on every design lover’s shelf. 

'A book to mine much inspiration from: the colors are wonderful, the details are so fun and unique, the photos are amazing, and the writing is so thoughtful.' – Reader review 

'A joyful book showcasing the colorful and eccentric English Style.' – Reader review


Of the countless interior design trends that come and go every year, there is one that endures: the ever-evolving English style. Explore the homes of 22 of England’s most exciting creatives, with interiors writer Elizabeth Metcalfe and photographer Dean Hearne.

An inspiration to people across the world, this is a style rich with color, pattern, and a certain eccentricity. Wallpapers, fabrics, charming details, and lovingly collected objects are all among the key components of a style that embraces individuality and benefits from its layers being allowed to evolve slowly. 

New English Interiors explores the exclusive homes of England’s most exciting creatives, from interior designers and illustrators to artists and antique dealers. From fashion stylist and designer Lucinda Chambers’ colorful kaleidoscope of a home in west London to illustrator Fee Greening’s earthy toned cottage in Dorset, this is a celebration of color and pattern in its infinite variety.  

Other interiors featured belong to the likes of designer Cath Kidston, artists Annie Morris, and Idris Khan and designers Luke Edward Hall and Duncan Campbell. While they range aesthetically from the bold and theatrical to the more earthy and homespun, there is one thing that unites them all: they are deeply personal visual moodboards for their owners. None of them are static either: these interiors are ever-evolving and that is part of their joy.  

From small city flats to country cottages, this promises to be the perfect inspiration for anyone who might want to live with glorious layers of color and pattern. It's a lesson on how to let our personalities guide how we decorate our homes.