THE ART OF INTERIOR DESIGN

PATTERN & COLOUR

I’M a big believer in walking into a room and letting it tell me what it needs in terms of both colour and pattern. When I’m decorating a room I usually bring in a bundle of bits of fabric and then look at them to consider where they could work within the space.

■ It’s important that you balance what colour and pattern hits your eye when you enter a room. Pattern works wonderfully on one or two windows, but if you’ve got a room that’s got a row of three big windows