'Make your space work for you and it can transform your life' 

It's not all about buying or not buying a new sofa, says author Rebecca West, your home should connect with your values

According to author Rebecca West, creating kitchen workspaces we enjoy encourages us to

Just before lockdown last March during my seasonal decluttering project, I gathered together 67 design and interiors books sent to me by publishers for review, most of which failed to make their way into this column, and were happily despatched to the charity shop.

 Swiftly following this, I asked publishers to only send books in digital format, and while digital doesn’t make for the intimate reading experience a book provides, it does, at least, stop the books piling up behind the sitting room door and mitigates my dismay at the largely unrecyclable packing which inevitably accompanies hard copies.