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Create the air of an artist’s studio with a selection of gilt frames in varying sizes and shapes. Arrange them against walls and items of furniture to give an impression of casual curation.

V&A panel VAA0142 £65 per sq m, Surface View. Distressed Antique Whisky engineered oak flooring £47.50 per sq m, Luxury Flooring. Ziegler-style carpet £930, Artique. Red velvet curtains £90 per pair, Paul Michael Farnham. 1940s Spanish sycamore sofa £2,800, Brownrigg. Early 19th-century still life watercolour £700 for a pair, Rag & Bone Bristol. 1880s English gesso gilt on a wooden frame (large frame behind sofa) £250,

Trilogie Antiques. Frames on sofa (left to right): early 20th-century English carved wood and painted frame £195, Turners Decoratives; 18th-century English George III carved oval, £200 Hubert Antiques; antique French frame c1850 £160, Charles Daggett Gallery; late 19th-century French carved oak and gilded frame, in Louis XIV style, with original oval spandrel £650 Charles Daggett Gallery. Gold curtains £90 per pair, Paul Michael Farnham. Antique French frame c1880 (on floor) £320, Hubert Antiques. Vintage oak Glamor haberdashery chest of drawers £495, Mustard Vintage. On drawers: mid-century brass crane £45, Mustard Vintage; A Dellaux vase £85, Focus on the Past; feathers, stylist’s own. 1920s English waste paper basket £395, Brownrigg. Wallpapers in basket: Harvest Hair; Squirrel and Sunflower each £66 per roll, both Mark Hearld at St Jude’s. Vintage Italian brass flower bowl £120, Lorfords.