Monthly Archives: June 2018
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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31 March 18: Whose deskie is this?…
Who works at a desk like this? The clue is in the letter…and the style. [...]
Jun
6 April 18: NYC the gestalt city
There are so many reasons I love New York, many of them visual and sensory. [...]
Jun
5 April 18: Love affair with NYC
Oh NYC, you’ve gone and done it again 🇺🇸. Every time I come back it [...]
Jun
2 April 18: The origins of ‘green’
Do you ever wonder where the names of colours hail from? A version of ‘green’ [...]
Jun
1 April 18: Osterbaum tree shelfie
Happy Easter, colourpeeps. Here’s an ‘osterbaum’ (Easter tree) for you. Well, in truth it’s a [...]
Jun
30 March 18: Easter chick yellow
Welcome to Easter (and chag sameach if you’re celebrating Passover, too). Here’s some chick yellow marine plastic [...]
Jun
29 March 18: A rainbow of colouristas?
What’s the collective noun for people who love colour? A spectrum of colourphiles? A rainbow [...]
Jun
28 March 18: What colour plastic?
Hello, people. Three days into the Easter hols and second-in-command has declared that he’s already [...]
Jun
27 March 18: Bittersweet plastic finds
Hi, folks. Spring has sprung and that can only mean one thing round here: it’ll [...]
Jun
26 March 18: Pick up a Penguin
Oooh, don’t you just LOVE a flight of coloured Penguins! I’ve always wondered how the [...]
Jun
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