Consulting editor: Joanna Farrow
Commissioning editor: Eleanor Maxfeld
Editor: Jo Wilson
Executive art editor: Karen Sawyer
Designer: Sally Bond
Photographer: William Shaw
Home economist: Denise Smart, Sue Henderson
Props stylist: Liz Hippisley
Other photography: © Octopus Publishing Group/Stephen Conroy 38, 174, 214;/Ian Garlick 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 37, 43, 61, 81, 87, 105, 111, 163, 167, 217;/David Munns 16;/Lis Parsons 84, 108, 130, 150, 194;/Ian Wallace 62
All other photography: © Octopus Publishing Group Limited/William Shaw