Colour Stories

TOP 10 BOOKS ABOUT COLOUR

As a colour-lover, I’m often asked colour questions. Popular ones include ‘What’s your favourite colour?’ and ‘What colourful books [...]

2 February 19: The great kitten ‘no-show’

Ok, I know you were probably expecting a picture of the kittens. Maybe two. Or 50. But they’ve instructed [...]

1 February 19: The calm before the kitten storm…

OMG the kittens are coming tomorrow… I know this probably doesn’t sound like a big deal to many of [...]

Shelfies

7 February 19: Green shelfie

Who used to watch Blue Peter? Well, in the words of Lesley Judd, ‘Here’s one I made earlier’ (Or, [...]

6 February 19: The secret lives of pots

Often happiness lies in the simplest things – like the unmatchy matchness of three little plants and the stories [...]

4 February 19: Same on same coloured shelfies

Hello and welcome to a new week. One of my favourite interiors techniques is putting same against same (I [...]

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TOP 10 BOOKS ABOUT COLOUR

As a colour-lover, I’m often asked colour questions. Popular ones include ‘What’s your favourite colour?’ and ‘What colourful books [...]

MY COLOURFUL WORLD: QUIRK & RESCUE’S MS.PINK

Do you have any design crushes? I’ve admired the creative genius of Quirk & Rescue for some time and [...]

How to ‘shelfie’ your way to mindfulness

‘You should try mindfulness and meditation’. I’ve lost count of the number of times people have said this to [...]

© Martha Roberts, The Colour File™

Hi, I’m Martha Roberts, journalist, mum, ardent second-hand rose and avid collector of colourful objects and images. I’m something of a colour magpie (or maybe a Satin Bowerbird, that quirky bird that collects blue objects to decorate its nest, only in my case a rainbow version…). This colour-craziness is why I started The Colour File.