How interior designers create classic looks in their homes

'A Home for All Seasons' author Kay Prestney visits slick spaces around the world and super suggestions

The colour of the wooden shutters is picked up in occasional furniture and cabinetry softened by plant-life and textiles in this London home.

Have you heard a big interiors trend of 2024 is bookshelf wealth? It amounts to dozens of curated books lining shelves, giving insight residents’ reading tastes, although there’s a related trend of buying books by the metre as part of an interior design scheme to give the impression of being well read, even if you are not.

Cultivating a collection of books for the look rather than what I love reading doesn’t sit well with me, a bookworm since I was taught to read at three years old using the then Cork Examiner as my first reader.