Snuggle down with irresistable velvet

Softly inviting and with a lavish feel, you can’t beat velvet as a means of adding classic chic and a warm welcome to an interior.

Subtle texture and gorgeous colours

• A touch of velvet can transform a room in an instant. Its soft drape highlights the shape of upholstered furniture, looks and feels wonderful on a headboard, and makes a luxurious throw or cushion cover. Even a tiny accessory such as a trim on a lampshade contributes to the layering of texture that brings subtle pleasure to your space.

• Velvet is fabulous in intense, bold colours, but feels especially ‘now’ in secondary colours such as mustard, teal and fuchsia. It’s best not to mix these two palettes; take inspiration from magazines, online sources or even paint charts if you’re in doubt about combining two or more shades.

• Create interest by including varied types of velvet – such as crushed, embossed, chiffon or devoré – as accents in different parts of your decorative scheme.

• The name velvet actually comes from an old French word, velu, meaning ‘shaggy’, and doesn’t refer to the type of fabric as such, but to its pile weave. Velvet was originally made from silk (which looks and feels beautiful, and has a price tag to match), but these days it’s more commonly made from silk mixed with rayon, cotton or synthetic fibres, sometimes with added stretch.

Easy Squish velvet quilt in dusty pink, £225, loaf.com.

Zyla velvet accent chair in petrol blue, £700, sazy.com. These pretty cushions have relaxed floppy edges, wooden buttons and are squishily soft. Easy Squish scatter cushions in velvet, from £29 each, loaf.com.

▲ This eye-catching high-backed chair will update any interior. It features a combination of mustard velvet upholstery with a gold-coated iron frame. Velvet mustard high-backed chair, £899, theforestandco.com.

Rivington marine blue 50x50cm cushion, £125, woodchipandmagnolia.co.uk.

▼ Walter rechargeable table lamp with 20cm empire shade in ruby silk, £115, pooky.com.

Barn Conversion with views

Woodhill, Nr Trefonen

A wonderful opportunity to purchase a superb fourbedroom barn conversion in a pleasant and sought after rural location. The accommodation provides, reception hall, cloakroom, utility room, living room with feature fireplace, dining room, kitchen, ground floor bedroom with ensuite. First floor: three further bedrooms, dressing room and bathroom, neatly landscaped gardens and parking.

Asking Price £675,000. For viewings call Halls on 01691 670320 or email oswestry@hallsgb.com

Ideal Retirement Bungalow

Bryn Issa, Lower Minster, Oswestry

Being well located on the fringe of the town centre, on an established residential estate and affording similar style dwellings, this detached two-bedroom bungalow offers an ideal opportunity to acquire a well-placed home. Benefitting from an attached external single garage, scope for workshop/office space and a full width conservatory with views over the enclosed landscaped garden. Available with no onward chain and offering scope for some minor improvements, this property would provide an ideal retirement bungalow with easily maintained grounds.

Asking Price £247,500. For viewings call Morris Marshall & Poole on 01691 679595 or email oswestry@morrismarshall.co.uk

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