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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22 March 19: Valspar’s Institute of Primal Colour
I love the opportunity to immerse myself in paint. Not literally (I’m guessing that’s quite [...]
Jul
21 March 19: International Colour Day
Today it’s a double whammy: its International Colour Day AND the Hindu festival of Holi. [...]
Jul
The blue of falling in love
Colour perceptions are individual – for example, one person’s ‘feeling blue’ blue can be another [...]
Jul
Losing your mind to colour
Have you ever almost lost your mind over colour? This pic was one of the [...]
Jul
Colour and disorder
I remember once learning about the law of entropy. It states that ‘all things tend [...]
Jul
Pastels colour wheel
Good morning from Tuesday. Here’s the desaturated plastics pic I promised you. It’s a blend [...]
Jul
Ocean plastic colour wheel
This weekend I went for a walk along the Thames, close to Colour File HQ. [...]
Jul
Colours in conversation with each other
Did I ever tell you how much I love colour? No? 🤔😁Let me tell you [...]
Jul
10 books about colour
As a colour-lover, I’m often asked colour questions like, ‘What’s your favourite colour?’ The other [...]
Jul
The story of Staffordshire dogs
I love ceramic Staffordshire dogs. Dating back to the 1720s, there are all manner of [...]
Jul
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