Experts give their opinion on how to get some flair into your home with ease

If the thought of picking up a paintbrush over the weekend is enough to send you back to bed with a mug of coffee, there are other, simpler ways to spruce up your living room this season, says Carol O’Callaghan

It’s spring, it’s the weekend, and time to get out the brushes to freshen paint work jaundiced by open fires, and give a little cosmetic surgery to chipped skirting boards and the aspiring artistry of crayon users.

Then again, if the thought of a painting project might force a retreat back to bed with a cup of coffee and the paper to have a rethink.