A French country garden with tall trees and lavendaer lining the path to the house - Ally Foster/Shutterstock The idea of French country design may conjure images of rustic-chic farmhouses, but the ...

The French countryside is filled with beautiful gardens, trimmed, symmetrical, and overflowing with lavender bushes, but few are as iconic and revered as late Impressionist painter, Claude Monet's.

“Beeswax on old oak, sisal rugs, freshly laundered linen sheets dried in the sunshine, oil paintings bought at a brocante for as little as 5 euros each,” writes Sara Silm about the details behind her ...