Put away the winter duvet and lighten up your bed linen for summer

I’m the regular recipient of new home interior books, some of which are look-books with beautiful photography designed to introduce the reader to a new or revived trend. 

Others are crammed so tightly with lists of instructions, were I to implement them thoroughly there would be little time for anything else, and I might end up broke at the same time.

But there are two books I really value — Colour Now (published by Quadrille) by the design-God, Kevin McCloud, and Keeping House by Cindy Harris (published by Ryland Peters).