In honor of the artist/writer/social activist/all-around creative genius William Morris’s birthday on March 24 of 1834, I’m remembering a visit to his home. He had a dream house: a hous…

William Morris's idyllic Cotswold retreat has reopened after a three-year renovation. We step inside to uncover the stories and scandals of Kelmscott Manor

The Arts and Crafts House, Kelmscott Manor, near Leclade was once home to William Morris. There are examples of his work and the small garden is delightful.

Home of William Morris

From Victoria : Surrounded by a higgledy-piggledy fence and all manner of cottage-garden flora, the gray limestone farmhouse known...

The servants' garrets at Kelmscott Manor, William Morris' 16th century English country home. The Spartan simplicity of these ancient rooms has been maintained. They now contain furniture designed by Holman Hunt.

The fireplace has the Turner crest sculpted in relief; panelling is hung with four of the series of mid-seventeenth century tapestries from Brussels or Antwerp, depicting the Life of Samson (Judges, 14-16); the pelmet on Morris's bed displays his poem 'For the bed at Kelmscott', composed in 1891 and embroidered by his daughter May Morris (1862-1938);

Kelmscott Manor was the country home of William Morris (1834-1896), poet, craftsman, designer, socialist reformer, and founder of the English Arts and Crafts movement. He and his wife Jane shared the house with the Pre-Raphaelite painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti from 1871 to 1874, and it remained a country retreat for Morris and the artists and intellectuals in his circle until his death