Monthly Archives: October 2017
Colour Experts
Helen Gilbert, Luxe 39: My Colourful World
Helen Gilbert is the brains behind luxury velvet cushion company Luxe 39. Here, she tells [...]
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Colour stories
5 ways colour helped me cope with coronavirus lockdown
I don’t know about you but I couldn’t have done without colour during the various [...]
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Colour stories
How to paint a mini-mural in 15 minutes
I love painting things. Every stage thrills me, starting from leafing through paint cards, comparing [...]
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Colour stories
Where to find colour in London: Liberty’s
Where do you head to when you’re feeling flat, melancholy or in need of recalibrating [...]
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10 books about colour
As a colour-lover, I’m often asked colour questions like, ‘What’s your favourite colour?’ The other [...]
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Colour Experts
Quirk & Rescue’s Ms Pink: My Colourful World
From incredible wallpaper, cushions and prints through to bespoke hand-painted furniture, the signature prints of [...]
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Shelfies
How to ‘shelfie’ your way to mindfulness
Can creating ‘shelfies’ help as a form of mindful activity? Martha Roberts asks the experts… [...]
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Colour stories
How to create the perfect (colourful) freelance space
When I worked on a national newspaper, we did long hours (news never sleeps, even [...]
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Colour stories
The psychology of pink
One of the things I’ve learned is that colour isn’t just something we see: the [...]
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Colour Experts
Lisa Dawson: My Colourful World
Lisa Dawson is an interiors blogger, writer and presenter whose weekly blog inspires fans on Instagram and [...]
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Colour stories
5 colourful holiday destinations
Someone recently asked me what my ideal holiday destination is. On a general level, the [...]
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Shelfies
14 May 18: ‘Shelfie’ is on its way!
BOOK NEWS!!!!!! OK, so I’m seriously excited. Some of you know (because you’ve been an [...]
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10th October '17: Keep mentally healthy
Have you ever felt like you were teetering on the brink of emotional burnout? You’re [...]
Oct
10th October '17: 'Be gone, Blue!' said Pink
Welcome to Tuesday, folks 💕💙💕💙💕 Each day on The Colour File, I wax lyrical about [...]
Oct
9th October '17: Shelf candy
Welcome to a new week, colour-peeps 💕⛑🦀🐤🐢👗💙👾💜 In the words of Maria Von Trapp, these [...]
Oct
8th October '17: Neon flashback
Hello from Colour File HQ. Near where I lived as a kid, there was a [...]
Oct
7th October '17: Branding magic
Welcome to the weekend, folks. Yesterday I mentioned how red and yellow energise us and [...]
Oct
6th October '17: Hungry yellow
Welcome to Friday, colour-lovers 🍋📒💛☀️⭐️ I was recently told that these striking @royalcrownderby plates (top right) were [...]
Oct
5th October '17: Beware of stripes!
Happy Thursday, my colourful chums. Had a headache recently? Tell me, were you wearing stripes [...]
Oct
4th October '17: Kids & Colours
Welcome to Wednesday. Yesterday, a fellow journalist asked me when I first got into colour. [...]
Oct
Illustrator Marion Deuchars: My Colourful World
Marion Deuchars is an internationally-acclaimed illustrator and creator of a book called ‘Colour’. Here we [...]
Oct
2nd October '17: Hounds hate hoops…
Welcome to a new week, folks 🌹🌸🍊⭐️🐸🐟👾🕺🏻 When I buy striped clothes (like this multicoloured @clementsribeiro jumper, [...]
Oct
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