The Deleted Chapter That Explains Why Your Room Feels Almost Right
At some point in the early 1980s British art schools quietly closed a door. It wasn’t dramatic, and there was…
Paint & Colour
Why British Decorating Looks the Way It Does (Blame the Sky)
Stand in a British living room – almost any British living room – and you will notice roughly the same…
The Invisible Gap Between Your Two Tins of Paint
Buy a tin of Farrow & Ball's Elephant's Breath (yes, that's a real name, no we're not getting into it),…
The Bold Wall That Britain Didn’t Choose
Estate agents call it a “feature wall”, and interior designers talk about it as a deliberate focal point: a wall…
The Unwritten Rules Your Gran Knew About Colour
Before anyone had ever handed you a fan deck of 214 shades of off-white, before Farrow & Ball gave every…
The Colour Knowledge That Died Quietly in the 1980s
You are standing in a professionally coordinated room. All of the colours, for walls and woodwork and soft furnishings, are…