DECOR HEATS UP
A wise colleague once told me that life was not about waiting for summer. This was in the middle of January, reminding me to bake cinnamon rolls, hunker down, make the most of now and not yearn for the future. And she was right. Yet this year I’ve been desperate for summer to arrive. That feeling of long lunches, longer days and even longer glasses of iced tea. Slubby linen, bowls of peaches, floors cool underfoot – all the ways design and decor can help you to relax. I don’t think I’m the only one. Just back from Paris Déco Off, where major international design houses were showing their latest collections, the biggest trend was for fun. Daring colours, exciting prints, a sense of why on earth not? From the animal-themed…