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

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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

Consider your home an invitation to play with the rainbow

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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