Category: home tones

Home Tones: Sharkskin

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Sharkskin contemporary staircasecredit

This week saw Pantone publish their top ten colours for autumn 2016. Of the ten, sharkskin is our favourite. Pantone may have been talking about fashion trends, but doesn’t the colour look fantastic in interior décor too?

It’s such a versatile shade, working well in any room of the house – and outdoors too. Use it as a backdrop to brights such as acid yellows and greens, violet, tangerine and aquamarine. Go monochrome with other shades of grey – or combine with the natural tones of wood and wicker.

Kitchen with sharkskin grey painted wallscredit

Bathroom with sharkskin grey floor to ceiling ceramic tilescredit

Sharkskin grey upholstered sofa on bright & airy sitting roomcredit

Grey painted kitchen with black Agacredit

Bedroom with grey walls and water hyacinth woven matcredit

Grey minimalist kitchen with breakfast barcredit

Home Tones: Sugared almonds

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Kids' sugared almonds coloured bedroomcredit

What colours do you think of when someone says to you, “sugared almonds”? They’re colours that were very popular in mid century modern interiors and with the recent revival of that era’s designs, their colours too are making a comeback. Soft pinks, blues, mauve, yellow and greens – all in various combinations. Some people may refer to them as ‘pastels’ or ‘chalky’ à la Annie Sloan. It’s not quite right for our home and décor, but we do think it can look lovely in the right setting.

Mid century modern dining room in sugared almond colourscredit

Sugared almonds painted house exteriorcredit

Sugared almonds decorated dining roomcredit

Sugared almond colour painted stair riserscredit

Sugared almond coloured craft room accessoriescredit

Sugared almonds coloured craft roomcredit

sugared almond colour painted wall and floor with vintage table & chairscredit

Home Tones: Petrol blue

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Petrol blue bedroom wardrobecredit

We’ve chosen a very dramatic colour for this week’s Home Tones post… petrol blue. It really grabs your attention. It’s often used quite sparingly in room schemes so as not to overpower it – perhaps a feature wall, furniture upholstery etc. People are being quite brave about embracing darkness now however – note the trend for dark greys in interior design – so we think this shade could be used quite liberally in a space – perhaps in conjunction with the aforementioned greys, fuchsia and violet. We often see flocks of starlings on nearby farmland and their feathers are very beautiful when you look at them close up – an iridescent combination of purple, green and this petrol blue. Take your colour combination cue from nature!

Sitting room in Blue Petrol housecredit

Petrol blue vignette containing artworks, lighting and vasescredit

Petrol blue sitting roomcredit

Black painted bedroom with petrol blue soft furnishingscredit

sitting room with petrol blue sofas and carpetcredit

Petrol blue painted spiral staircasecredit

Violet and pertol blue beddingcredit

Home Tones: Army green

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Bathroom decorated with Little Greene Reverie Jungle wallpaper and army green roll top bathcredit

This week’s Home Tone is army green. We’ve chosen one image of a bedroom with disguise netting on the bunk beds, but it doesn’t have to be reserved for camouflage effects! It’s a very restful colour which combines really well with wood and other natural materials such as wicker, bamboo and sea grass. It looks fabulous against a strong contrasting white, tangerine orange or purple. And it also provides the perfect backdrop for dark green foliage or more acid green shades.

wood-clad house with army green & purple window trimcredit

Boys' bedroom decorated with army green camouflaged bunk bedscredit

Army green painted front doorcredit

Army green painted double aspect bedroomcredit

corner of a sitting room with army green leather club chaircredit

Bedroom with army green wall, bedding and headboardcredit

Army green panelled sitting roomcredit