Sweet home

Luckily – in these credit-crunched times – if you want to perk up your home, you don’t have to spend a fortune. And White Company founder-owner Chrissie Rucker is on hand to share her expert tips.

‘A scented candle, a lovely flower in a glass vase, a cosy throw on the back of a sofa – the simplest things can make any home warm and welcoming,’ she says. And in her new book How to Make Your House a Home she talks you through how to set the scene and select the final finishing touches.

How to Make Your House a Home explores all aspects of creating atmosphere through light, scent, texture, shape and colour – from choosing flowers to selecting the right room fragrance - with fabulous photos to show you how it should be done.

How to Make Your House a Home, out 1 November (Craft Publishing, £10)