Welcome to the latest installment of Karen’s Quarterly Colour Psychology Questions in which I quiz applied colour psychology expert Karen Haller to get her take on the use of various colours in our interior design schemes. In this post we are taking a closer look at Dulux’s colour of the Year for 2013 which was the
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Ombre Paint Effect Tutorial from Dulux
Image courtesy of Dulux I don’t know about you, but every year as Spring approaches I have this overwhelming urge not only to do a massive spring clean at home but also to change things up a bit and give my home a refresh or a new look. This year the urge is particularly strong
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Colour Psychology: Using Green in Interiors
Contemporary Living Room design by Las Vegas Photographer Larry Hanna Well, it’s that time again! Time to welcome back the fabulous applied colour psychology expert that is Karen Haller. Karen and I started our Colour Psychology column exactly two years ago to the day and I am happy to report that the posts are still as popular as
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Colour Psychology: Using Orange in Interiors
Now firstly I must apologize that it has been far too long since my last colour psychology post. When I originally launched this series of posts I intended to run them quarterly hence the series being called Karen’s Quarterly Colour Psychology Questions. However, as many of you know, I got married in April so my attention was somewhat
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Kohler’s Colourful Sink Collection by Jonathan Adler
It’s Friday so I’m pretty sure you won’t need much cheering up, but just in case you need your day brightening a little I thought I would share these gloriously colourful designs from Jonathan Adler. Working in collaboration with kitchen and bath industry leader, Kohler Co. Adler has created the Kohler Colours Collection, which is available
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Colour Psychology: Using Magnolia in Interiors
I’m happy to say it’s that time again! October presents us with our quarterly opportunity to interrogate colour expert and consultant Karen Haller about the psychology behind the use of colour in interior design. Karen has already given us an insight into yellow and grey in the two previous posts that have been part of the Karen’s Quarterly Colour Psychology Questions series. And
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Colour Psychology: Using Grey in Interiors
Shaker Kitchen from DeVOL Back in March I invited colour expert and consultant Karen Haller to take part in an interview all about the colour yellow and its use in interior design. The post has been a massive success, one of the most popular of all time in fact, and because of this, Karen and I have decided to
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Interview: Lars Contzen’s Colour Courage
I first discovered Lars Contzen back in December 2008 when I interviewed him for Designer magazine. You can read that interview here and find out all about how he uses colour, pattern and form in his surface designs. Anyway, earlier this year I noticed that he was again involved in some very exciting new projects,
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British Summer Time is here!
So the clocks went forward in the early hours of this morning, which as we all know means we lost an hour of sleep but we have also gained an hour of daylight in the evenings. In honour of British Summer Time I have decided to post a few inspirational images from a blog I
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Colour Psychology: Using Yellow in Interiors
Image 1. Janicskovsky‘s Photos on Flickr Image 2. Lemon Cookies via Pinterest (source unknown) Image 3. Lemons via Decor8 I’m not really one to follow trends, I tend to stick with what I like and what appeals to me on a personal level rather than following fashion. However, just sometimes there are a few trends
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Pantone’s Colour of the Year 2011
A few weeks ago I interviewed Leatrice Eiseman, colour expert and executive director of the Pantone Colour Institute, for INSIDE, the monthly newsletter produced by WAN Interiors. I asked her all about her prediction for colour of the year 2011, her advice on how best to use this new hue and how she goes about
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Interview: Designer Remigiusz Laskowski
I have recently had the pleasure of getting to know Renata of Muslavi Gallery, the sole UK distributor of the furniture and homewares designed and produced by the Polish company Laskowscy Design. I blogged about their products some time ago and I now have the good fortune to be the proud owner of my very
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Polish interiors range
I’m a big fan of Polish design so when I received a press release from Laskowscy Design about their furniture now being available in the UK I knew it deserved a blog post. Distributed by the Muslavi Gallery, the stunning powder coated furniture and interior accessories are designed by award-winning Polish artist and designer Remigiusz
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Colour of the Month – Nov 09
Justine Fox, colour expert at Global Color Research, presents the colour of the month, helping us to understand how colour psychology affects trends. This month she looks at the undeniable sophistication and elegance of Grey. The following is taken from the mix colour update newsletter which you can subscribe to here. If ever a