Martin Wood, author of highly regarded and bestselling books on the work of Nancy Lancaster, John Fowler and Sister Parish among others, and a distinguished interior designer in his own right, has had privileged access to the greatest decorators of our time. From them he has learned how colour works with light; how to measure a room so that you have the basic information needed to draw up a variety of plans; how to maximize space; how to dress a window; how to draw up a lighting plan; how to arrange a room for balance and harmony. How, in fact, to think like a fine decorator. In this book he celebrates the work of these decorators and demonstrates how their design secrets can be adopted and adapted by others in to create beautiful places of their own.