What paint colour is that?
Natalie's two part series on her favourite wall colours and wallpapers, how to create beautiful colour schemes and how to avoid making costly mistakes.
The question I get asked most is ‘what paint colour is that?’ (which is shortly followed by ‘have you got any bedsides?’) Choosing a paint or wall covering can spin even the most decisive people into a panic, because let’s face it, there’s just endless choice. You might know exactly which colours you love, but after a hour doom-scrolling on instagram, your love for green rooms, might have suddenly become a desire for a wallpaper that has somehow entered your subconscious. The problem with the dilemma is no two rooms are the same, and thus what works for one room, won’t work for another. The amount of light, the direction of the room, the location in the home, the shape and size, the position of the windows, the other furnishing and furniture, and so on all play a major role in how colour translates. If you’re not careful, the beautiful warm buttery paint you’ve seen on your pals insta, might read as a very depressing magnolia. This is a two part series looking at paint colours and wallpapers and a whole load of advice. Enjoy
Wallpaper
I didn’t think I actually liked wallpaper until I…erm….wallpapered. My love affair, started with seeing an image of the most amazing Josef Frank wallpaper in Margherita Missoni’s home. I just adored the large scale print, the clashing fabric and the monumental mirror. I wallpapered our nursery in it, which later became my home office, and five years later, as I sit here typing away, I am still as in love with it as I was then.
I remember a DM coming in on instagram asking if I regretted the use of it in our home…"because it was everywhere?” To which I pointed out, that it might be in the small corner of the virtual world that we occupy, however, I had never seen it in another home IRL, none of my (less