FEW people had a greater faith in the power of paint than Jocasta Innes, the author of bestselling books on both food and interior design, who, together with Laura Ashley and Terence Conran, had a huge impact on 1980s interior design. In her view, there were few spaces that couldn’t be improved by paint, including floors. Now, together with so many of the design features of that decade, an inventive approach to paint is back.
‘Painted floors can