Loved up

Saint Valentine’s Day is just five days away and gifts are obliged to be personal.

But there’s nothing to stop you going a step further and stringing up pink and red bunting and baking a heart-shaped cake for your loved-one too. But have you ever considered romance as the basis of your interiors look?

I’m not suggesting you come over all hearts and flowers as a permanent home interiors styling theme: those you live with might up sticks. But consider using lighting, fabrics, colour, and furnishings to evoke a sense of springtime in bloom, to recreate the mood from that perfect holiday, or to evoke anything that for you means romantic. It could be a very natural look based on drift wood and woodland finds, or the breezy seaside look with its sandy tones and lightsome blues.