Displaying personal possessions and objets is an art form – and also key to achieving a room with plenty of panache

Requiring a combination of patience, flair, practicality and know-how, decorating a home is a time-consuming endeavour. And when it comes to hard-working spaces used for specific tasks such as cooking

Beth and Dan Tarling took on an old cottage near a Cornish coastal path and created a colourful, layered look that celebrates the cottage’s seaside setting

An artist kitted out the bathroom in her 200-year-old home with secondhand finds and a can-do attitude

Nothing is as joyful or as transformative as paint, says Joa Studholme, the creative genius behind some of Farrow & Ball’s most cherished colours. From a scarlet door to a bedroom dunked in a soothing oatmeal shade, the Colour Curator reveals how she turns a lick of paint into a ‘moment’

Every room scheme in this smart west London home, created by Hám Interiors, illustrates how being confident with colour pays off