Cushion Effect

Your home:

a) looks like in need of a good clean

b) is a place you visit only to sleep

c) resembles your 90-year old nan’s flat, complete with kitsch figurines.

Forget DIY madness. The best way to inject fresh air into any morbid-looking room is to throw in a few characterful cushions.

This is where Yastik Istanbul comes in. Created by the venerable fashion designer Rıfat Özbek, their designs cover a tasteful range from Turkish toile de jouy scenes to modern takes on ethnic Brazilian patterns.

Like shoes, a domestic goddess can never have enough of them.

Yastık Istanbul is available online at yastikistanbul.com.