Anyone who's ever plastered their walls in paint samples, thumbed through piles of fabric swatches or pondered over lightion schemes will know that being your own interior designer is not as easy as it sounds. Luckily, help In Interiors by Design, renowned interiors writer Ros Byam Shaw reveals the secrets of design professionals so that you can create your perfect room.

 

ROS BYAM SHAW is a former features editor of World of interiors and deputy editor of the British edition of the US fashion and lifestyle newspaper, W. She is now a freelance Journalist and writes on design and interiors for House & Garden, Tatler and The Sunday Times. She is author of Modern Natural and Living with Arts &Crafts and contributed to The Home Zone (all published by Ryland Peters &Small). Ros is currently knee-deep in builders and puppies as she restores her Elizabethan house in Devon,