Monthly Archives: September 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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Colour Experts Colour stories
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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Yellow shelfie – and yellow love
Ah, yellow! How I love you! But we both know it hasn’t always been that [...]
Sep
16 August 18: When does colour love start?
Hello folks. Having talked about beach huts yesterday, I’ve had paint colour on my mind [...]
Sep
Colourful beach huts
HANDS UP who had a Wendy house when they were a kid? I didn’t (which [...]
Sep
Blue & white azulejo tiles
One of my favourite colourful things about Porto is the traditional azulejo tiles. There are [...]
Sep
The story of fractal art
Fractal pictures were all the rage in 1989 (yeah, ok, so you weren’t even born [...]
Sep
The story of Porto’s colourful swallows
In Porto I saw ceramic birds for sale at every turn. I was told they [...]
Sep
A story of loss and love: green for Oscar
I always wear green for Oscar, my son’s twin brother, who died. It’s a colour [...]
Sep
Black and white interiors: love or loathe?
Those of you who know me will know I’m not the biggest fan of black [...]
Sep
The story of coloured barricade tape
I want to share a colour story that was told to me in Porto. As [...]
Sep
Shelfie book at the Tate!
Oh.my.gosh. I am, officially, ridiculously excited. Yesterday, my super-lovely and super-talented Instachum @marydarchdesign (take a [...]
Sep
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