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

Andy Gray speaks about his visually stunning zine on woodland scenes

We’d been living in a Victorian house with high ceilings just a mile away, but we were ready for a change. The house had very little garden, and we wanted to become a lot more self-sufficient by havin

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

Since we moved here in 2018 from a smaller two-bedroom terrace, we’ve painted our living-dining room in many different colours, from dusky pink to light green and dark blue. I really love Bauhaus, Pop

Benedict Brain searches his archives for the inspiration to escape winter’s creative doldrum