Category Archives: Colour stories
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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23 June 18: Crimson, cravats & crime
Hello, folks. I’m on such a colour high after yesterday that I thought I’d spread [...]
Aug
27 May 18: Purple Thames shelfie
Who saw the lightning in London last night? As second-in-command and his friend ran in [...]
Jun
Blue, green and yellow: the joy of analogous colours
What are your thoughts on analogous colours – clusters of colours next to each other [...]
Jun
29 April 18: Yellow Thames plastic
Morning, my colour-loving friends. Now, I don’t know what it is but there’s something about [...]
Jun
What is the Blue Mind effect?
I grew up near the River Thames and I live near it now, just a [...]
Mar
Marrs green: the world’s favourite colour
Recently I blogged about my love of colours that seem to defy categorisation. Well, I’m [...]
Jul
How to make a colourful masking tape greetings card
Happiness is making things, especially if it involves colour. Here at The Colour File, we’ve [...]
Jun
Tangerine Dream
Happy Sunday, Colour Filers 🦊🦀🦐🔥🍊 And what a sunny Sunday its turning out to be. [...]
Apr
Colour trios: Orange, yellow and pink
I’m big into orange at the moment, or, more specifically, mandarin and tangerine. I spotted [...]
Apr
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