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My Spiced Honey experiment

A childhood of being dressed in ‘autumn’ colours and living in a beige-coloured house was enough to give me [...]

18 October 18: Interiors compromise

INTERIORS COMPROMISE: HOW DO YOU DO IT?// Compromise is part of life. We all know that. When I did [...]

17 October 18: Bordeaux, my colour muse

Who, what or where is your creative muse? Although historically a person or even a goddess, I’ve discovered that [...]

Shelfies

17 October 18: Marble shelfie

I remember when I was a little girl, I was sent some Italian marbled stationery by a family friend [...]

15 October 18: The colours of poetry

Hands up who loves poetry? I have to confess, I don’t love it all. There are some poems I [...]

11 October 18: The ‘fugly’ outlier jug

I don’t know about you but I love the concept of ‘outliers’ – something or someone who is different [...]

Influencers

COLOUR INFLUENCER: SARAH MAILER, GIRL ABOUT HOUSE

Sarah Mailer is the brains behind the brilliant Girl About House blog as well as being a much sought-after [...]

Colour File interview: Kasie Barton

Kasie Barton is a colour tour de force. DIYer extraordinaire and stylish founder of the For The Love Of [...]

Colour File Interview: Emily Murray

If you’re a lover of interiors or the colour pink – or a delicious mixture of the two – [...]

© 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.