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Home Tones: All Black

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It’s dark, dramatic all black for this week’s Home Tones. And we’ve chosen images where walls, floors and ceilings are incorporated into the scheme. It creates a cocoon or womb-like space that envelops the occupant. Spotlights and mood lighting have the perfect backdrop to look their best.

There are a wide range of highlight colours that work well. Our personal favourite are those mustard yellows, tan leathers, blonde woods and wicker. It’s also a great colour to display artwork against. Black & white photos sit very nicely – and bold flashes of colour have real impact – a huge abstract oil painting springs to mind. All in all, it’s one of our absolute favourite interior looks.

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Home Tones: Nearly Black

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Somerset cottage sitting room with nearly black painted wallscredit

You’d be hard pressed to open an interiors magazine today without being presented with rooms bedecked in nearly black. It’s a recent favourite, especially in wall coverings. Farrow and Ball’s Railings must be the most famous deep grey paint colour on the market right now.

If you don’t wish to be that bold, you can test the waters by using it as an accent colour – in furniture, soft furnishings and lighting. It’s just the best colour for showing off brass, blond & chestnut coloured woods, yellows, lime green, blood red, teal and shades of white.

It works so well when hit by shafts of natural daylight and is quite magical by night too, lit softly by lamps or the flickering flames of real fires and candles.

All the photos that we’ve featured here prove that nearly black can work successfully in any room of the house. Go on, embrace the darkness! 🙂

Eclectic bedroom painted in Farrow & Ball 'Railings' eggshellcredit

Stone spiral staircase with red carpet and nearly black painted wallscredit

Nearly black fitted kitchen cabinets with contrasting lime green bar stoolscredit

Dark grey painted bathroom with large feature wire chandeliercredit

Nearly black painted sitting room with matching sofa and floor lampcredit

Study with floor, walls, cornice and bookcase painted in very dark greycredit

Cloakroom with nearly black painted and tiled walls and splash-back contrasting with white sanitary-warecredit

Etsy List: Black Beauty

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'Black Beauty' Etsy List curated by H is for Home

Black is stylish and sexy, adventurous and dangerous, mysterious and serious. You can jazz it up by using it alongside bright colours like fire engine red and hot pink; give it a ‘luxe twist with gold, bronze and animal print highlights or go traditional with white and cream. You can incorporate black into your interior décor scheme with pattern – think hounds-tooth, check, spots and stripes.

Don’t be afraid to use it – but beware of overusing it – unless you’re intentionally after a Gothic look!

Black Beauty
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Monthly Mood Board: Monochrome

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Black and white monochrome mood board | H is for Home

A monochrome interior need not be boring. What it lacks in colour, it can more than make up for with pattern, texture, tactility… and humour.

  1. Vitra Utensilo black: £177.00 – £219.00, Heal’s
  2. Mima Le Chat print: £42, Amazon
  3. KLIPPAN two-seat sofa, Storlien black/white: £175, IKEA
  4. Bobby desk lamp: £12.60, Habitat
  5. Vintage ivory 10kg weighing scales, black & white gingham scales: £3.26, Etsy
  6. Smeg A4-BL-8 dual fuel range cooker, gloss black: £2,669, John Lewis
  7. Marimekko Siirtolapuutarha Dots espresso cup & plate: £26, Heal’s