You have lots of choices to make as you design your home: colours for the walls, upholstery patterns for the seats, finishes for the floors… and, if you’re working on a brand new space, you have to think about the shapes of the rooms themselves, the different home zones and ceiling heights. And this is just for starters! If you’re developing an existing space, you can also design for each zone or room shape, changing the apparent height of a ceiling or shape of a room via paint, for example.

Science has probed the best answers for your design questions and by applying it you can save lots of time and money! Have a read through some of our suggestions. You won’t find yourself repainting walls, moving that new rug to the spare bedroom no one’s ever in, re-orienting the furniture so no one can see into the kitchen . . .