Monthly Archives: July 2019
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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Where to find colour in London: Liberty’s
Where do you head to when you’re feeling flat, melancholy or in need of recalibrating [...]
Jul
Talking shelfies on BBC R4’s You and Yours
Back in 2019 I appeared on You & Yours on @bbcradio4 talking about shelves and [...]
Jul
3 steps to creating a blue M&S shelfie
Hello and welcome to a new week Recently, I suggested a challenge to @marksandspencerhomepr – to [...]
Jul
How to play the Valspar paint swatch game
When I was a kid, I loved playing Monopoly. It wasn’t on account of being [...]
Jul
Adding Californian colour to a shady spot
Do you ever have a, ‘Why, Miss Jones, you’re really rather beautiful!’ moment about an [...]
Jul
A lifelong love of colouring pencils
I was sketching for one of my colour projects when I realised just how DELICIOUS [...]
Jul
Creating colourful art from ocean plastic
Today, 22 April, is World Earth Day. We should be thinking about our environment every [...]
Jul
Blue and yellow Easter shelfie
Happy Easter, folks. Today is forecast to be a day of uninterrupted, cloudless skies and [...]
Jul
The story behind my purple tattoo
Do you have a tattoo? I never used to see myself as a tattoo kind of [...]
Jul
Colour blocking with pink and mint green
Who loves colour-blocking? Regular readers of the Colour File will know much I love hiding [...]
Jul
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