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A LETTER FROM HOME A warm welcome from

Timeless blue and white colour palettes are given new treatments in the spring collections (page 72) .These trims from Travers provide an easy update.

Explore our feature on creating a healthy, happy home with ideas for adding a link to the great outdoors, such as this fabric by Iliv (on page 64).

A letter from home

Spring is always a time of change and renewal, but perhaps this year we are more ready than ever to usher in the new. In fact, revitalise and refresh were the words at the forefront of my mind when planning this issue with the team as we embrace an optimistic mood. The interiors industry has captured this positivity with its mood-enhancing new fabric and wallpaper collections, with themes that reference the beauty of the natural world, artistic inspiration and heritage, often in bright colour palettes (p60). These are designs that will work beautifully in English homes as well those on foreign shores. We also embrace the season with new interiors buys (p6 & p12) along with products that are both beautiful and useful for an annual spring clean (p14).

Garden rooms, orangeries and conservatories come to life at this time of year as indoor-outdoor spaces to enjoy before the weather fully warms up. Alongside stylish ideas for decorating them, it feels topical to explore how they can provide a useful additional space as we have all been spending so much more time at home over the past year. And Mrs M waxes lyrical about creating ‘a room of one’s own’ for reading in her column this issue (p111).

Finally, don’t miss our Living Well feature (p100) or our guide to arranging and preserving spring flowers in Seasonal Home (p94) to bring the beauty of spring flowers indoors. We hope this issue will put a spring in your step and inspire you to make the most of all the season has to offer.

Samantha Scott-Jeffries, Editor

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