Homes: This year's love

1950s Festival of Britain
Milton coloured shelving unit, £900, from Laura Ashley Photograph: PR

Festival wallpaper, £50 for a 10m roll, by Mini Moderns Photograph: PR

Sanderson’s new collection of 50s prints, to mark the 60th anniversary of the Festival of Britain, from £32 a metre for fabrics, and £29 a metre for wallpaper, from Sanderson Photograph: PR

Studio couch with seat cushion, £1,685, from Ercol Photograph: PR

Retro clock, £29.50, from Marks & Spencer Photograph: PR

Personal quirks
Wisteria wallpaper, from the Frontier collection, £77 for a 10m roll, by Cole & Son Photograph: PR

Picasso cushion, £69, from the Conran Shop Photograph: PR

Rosa rug, £400, from Habitat Photograph: PR

Ruché sofa by Inga Sempé, £3,122, from Ligne Roset Photograph: PR

Distressed whites
Enamel jug, £32, from The White Company Photograph: PR

Large metal ceiling light, £125, from Marks & Spencer Photograph: PR

Dublin table in painted oak, base £200, top £130, from Habitat Photograph: PR

Architectural motifs
Rome print fabric, £65 a metre, from Zoffany Photograph: PR

Hampstead wallpaper in James Blue, part of the 50s Line Papers collection, £44.50 for a 10m roll, from Little Greene Photograph: PR

Loggia wallpaper (W6173-01), £78 for a 10m roll, Osborne & Little Photograph: PR

Fade to black
Olivia glass table lamp, £85, from House of Fraser Photograph: PR

Samual Johnson velvet sofa, from £3,095, from Fleming & Howland Photograph: Xavier Young/PR

Toulouse pewter bath, from £5,200, from Victoria + Albert Photograph: simon whitmore/PR

Pied a Terre plum glass vase, £30, available from end of Feb, from House of Fraser Photograph: PR

Plummet estate emulsion, £29.50 for 2.5 litres, new from Farrow & Ball Photograph: PR

Little Black Dress emulsion, £17.99 for 2.5 litres, from Crown Photograph: PR

Purple Frenzy emulsion, £19.98 for 2.5 litres, from Sandtex Photograph: PR

George Berkley chair, from £1,650, from Fleming & Howland Photograph: PR