Monthly Archives: May 2017

Gretchen Rubin is a global authority on happiness – possibly THE global authority. Here, she tells The Colour File’s Martha Roberts what colour/color means to her… Martha: Can you describe your first colour memory? Gretchen: I remember being very intrigued by the beautiful and unusual color combinations in Ludwig Bemelmans’s classic picture book, Madeline. Martha: […]

Happy Thursday, lovely people ❤️🚒🏎🗼☎️⏰🎈✂️🖍❤️ I’m still giddy from last Saturday’s @libertylondon colour pilgrimage. I can’t recommend it enough if, like me, you appear to need colour as much as you need oxygen. I fell in love with the @manoloblahnikhq shoes in bright, captivating jewel colours (NB to the woman trying on the cobalt blue […]

Happy Wednesday, one and all. Hands up who loves wallpaper? I lose many an hour scrolling through wallpaper websites and ordering swatches to lust over. One of my happiest wallpaper moments was when a harassed shop assistant allowed me to use his wallpaper scissors (never used these oversized beauties? You don’t know what you’re missing) […]

Happy Tuesday, Colour Filers. As a teenager, I spent several weeks at London Zoo at a summer school about evolution. I was utterly captivated by it, not least what a science teacher once told me: ‘Everything in nature is there for a reason.’ I think this every time I see brightly-coloured plants or animals, especially […]

Happy Monday, dear friends 🎟 ❤️📙🔑🔫🗾⛴👾☂️ It’s a day of celebration today – celebrating the life of my uncle Merv (whose memorial service we’ve been asked to wear bright colours for – consider it done ✔️) and also celebrating my birthday (I’ve decided to ignore my age and just be thankful for the exhilarating, giddy […]

Happy Sunday, my colour-loving friends. I ADORE this blue. According to #colourpsychology, blue symbolises intelligence and serenity. If so, this specific blue must be at the very pinnacle of wisdom and calm. Pale periwinkle blue makes me think of painted Italian church ceilings where chubby cherubs sit amidst impossibly beautiful skies. It is a blue that […]

Happy Saturday, insta-peeps 🍋🍊🍓🍇🍉🍌🍒🍍🍑 Everywhere I look there’s fruit. Whether it’s interiors, fashion or stationary, it’s all about fruit. My bestie @style_mumhas long been a devoted worshipper of all things pineapple (they denote friendship which, for someone with so many friends, seems most appropriate). But not everyone’s a fruit motif fan. Whilst happy to eat the […]

Happy Friday, lovely people 🌟🐤🌼⚡️🍌🍋🧀💛 Thoughts of yellow have been pinging me back to the happy sound of my mum’s rendition of ‘Tie A Yellow Ribbon Round The Old Oak Tree’ when I was a kid. I loved the idea of this tree, garlanded with yellow, and I wanted to put ribbons on one myself […]

Happy Thursday, colour-chums 👗👗👗 As you may know by now, the Colour File philosophy is pretty much ‘colour for colour’s sake’. Personally, I don’t think you ever need to make excuses for using colour boldly and brazenly. Since launching The Colour File I’ve learned that how colour makes people feel on an emotional level is […]

Happy humpday, lovely people. ‘What is your favourite colour?’ must be one of life’s easier questions to answer, right? Wrong. Well, at least, not round these parts. Like so many things, when I was as a kid it was all so simple: purple all the way. Easy peasy. But now its soooo much more complex […]