Welcome to a new week, folks 💎🌐💎 As the book says, men are from Mars and women are from Venus. However, allow me to enlighten you on some key relationship nuggets to help you on your way: men love cars, wires and watches, women love handbags, cushions and candles. Accept these things and you can’t […]
Monthly Archives: July 2017
Hello again, folks. I am THRILLED to have been nominated for the @amaraliving Interior Blog Award in the Best Colour Inspiration blog category. Yippeeeee!!! And thank you!!!!!! It won’t be long until the voting stage of the awards opens where The Colour File will need votes to make it onto the shortlist ahead of the awards ceremony […]
Happy Sunday, colour-lovers. Do you have a ‘most disappointing childhood gift’ experience? It’s ok – we’re all friends here, we won’t judge you. In the 70s, I was thrilled to unwrap an of-the-moment Shaker Maker toy, only to realise as my brother opened a Sindy doll that the gift tags must have been wrongly attached […]
Hi from Saturday, folks 🌸👛👚💕 I came across the word ‘urbexing’ for the first time yesterday. It’s what ‘urban explorers’ do: they go into abandoned buildings, like factories and hospitals, and take artistic pictures of the dereliction and decay. Their photography is proof that they see what many others don’t: beauty in forsaken things. I […]
Welcome to Friday 🙂🐤🌼🍋 It may be no surprise to hear that I love words. I particularly love their origins and trying to guess what time and place they hail from. My second-in-command and I sometimes play a game of ‘What’s the prefix/suffix?’ (it’s all fun and games at Colour File HQ, you know). I […]
Hello from Thursday, instapeeps. When I was six, my mum handed me a catalogue and told me I could choose a rose for our garden. I went for ‘Blue Moon’ because the picture showed a lavender blue-coloured bloom that I’d never seen on rose before. Mum would say how much she hated it because it […]
Happy humpday, lovely people. Red has been on my mind, firstly since seeing @style_mum at the #cuckooclubforgrenfell event last night (swipe right to see the girl who gets happiness by the truckload from wearing red, as you’ll soon read in her Colour File colour influencer Q&A); and secondly because, five (yes, five) months after starting the Colour File, I […]
Happy Tuesday, folks. Do you have a favourite colourful film? I will never forget seeing Baz Luhrmann’s kaleidoscopic Romeo & Juliet for the first time. It was in New York in 1996 and I felt moved to tears, not just by the inevitable tragedy of it all but the beauty of it, too. The fish […]
Happy Monday, colour-peeps. South American textiles make my heart sing. They ping me back to visiting my Peruvian godmother (in leafy Carshalton, not Cuzco) and seeing the little bits of home she’d brought back to Surrey to remind her of Arequipa (it’s on Lake Titicaca, which borders both Peru and Bolivia, and when they were […]
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As in-house colour specialist at paint company Farrow & Ball, Joa Studholme has the awesome job of developing (and naming) new colours. She is also works across the globe as the company’s international colour consultant and is author of Farrow & Ball’s ‘How To Decorate’ (with Charlotte Cosby). Here, she gives The Colour File some […]
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