Our decorating expert on letting go of paint charts and allowing your instinctive colour confidence to shine through

Sophie Ashby tells our editor Pip Rich how she puts her richly layered rooms together – and the surprising place she finds colour inspiration

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Of all the ways to decorate, paint is probably amongst the most powerful of tools. It can significantly alter the mood of a room, creating a calming, uplifting or cocooning effect, serve as the founda

When Mandy and David Ashcroft found themselves craving space during lockdown, they didn’t imagine the search would lead to a new-build. They’d always gravitated towards older properties and their 1920

It’s a sunny summer afternoon in a verdant corner of the Essex countryside. A pretty pastoral landscape lies before us, with cattle sheltering in the shade of oak trees, rolling green fields, and a gr