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Home Tones: Green Flash

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cottage entrance with green flash front door

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Whatever happens in the fashion world filters down into the interiors world. The following is what Pantone had to say about Green Flash, one of the top 10 fashion colours they picked for spring 2016.

Green Flash calls on its wearer to explore, push the envelope and escape the mundane, radiating an openness that combines with the rest of the palette in unexpected but serendipitous ways. The popularity of this brilliant hue is representative of nature’s persistent influence even in urban environments, a trend continuing to inspire designers.

Perhaps not the easiest colour to use (nor wear for that matter), but it is very striking when successful. It’s fresh & clean so perfect for bathrooms – and also looks great near large windows where it helps bring the outdoors in. The ideal partner is a crisp, contrasting brilliant white.

modern kitchen with green flash splashbackcredit

white chest of drawers in front of a green flash painted wallcredit

Kid's bedroom with green flash painted wallcredit

kitchen diner with green flash coloured tile splashback and feature wallcredit

shower room with green flash pained and tiled walls and ceilingcredit

green flash painted porch and wooden railingscredit

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Home Tones: Christmas Red & Green

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Many of us have heard the sayings, “Red & green should never be seen without a colour in between” and “Red & green should only be seen upon an Irish queen”. We generally concur with this regarding interior decoration… except at Christmastime of course, when these two colours come into their own. This traditional pairing somehow captures the mood of the festive season. From Santa’s outfit to berry-laden holly, fir trees, poinsettia, candy canes, pretty packages, candles, baubles and trimmings… and not forgetting the robin red-breast.

Christmas decorated room in red and green by Marks & Spencercredit

Norton Priory decorated for Christmascredit

Sprig of decorated fir tree and glass jar of striped candy canescredit

Mantlepiece decorated for Christmascredit

open plan sitting room & dining room with Christmas tree and red baubles hanging from ceiling beamscredit

Sideboard with red, green and white Christmas decorationscredit

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Home Tones: Chartreuse

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double bunk bedroom with chartreuse wallcredit

Chartreuse – I love the word and its sound; so exotic and sophisticated. I’ve never actually tasted the liqueur though. It’s an incredible colour – the clear, bright green liquid looks slightly radioactive!

Used in interior decoration though, it’s striking but not to everyone’s taste. I think it looks great on a feature wall. If you’d like to give it a try, but don’t feel that brave, use it in small quantities in accessories – a throw here, a cushion there.

Pair it with sky blue, violet, concrete grey and natural shades. Doesn’t it look fabulous against the navy blue of the bathroom with roll top bath in the photograph at the bottom?

I think it’s a great colour for use in a bathroom or wet room. Just the thing to help awaken the senses during that morning shower!

Bathroom with chartreuse painted shower enclosurecredit

Mid century modern living room with chartreuse upholstered chairscredit

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Feminine bedroom with chartreuse painted wallcredit

Home office with chartreuse painted wall and tri-fold doorcredit

Concrete grey kitchen with chartreuse wall and ceilingcredit

Bathroom with roll-top bath, navy blue walls and chartreuse shower curtain and towelscredit

Home Tones: Olive Green

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Of all the shades of green out there, olive green is probably our favourite. That shouldn’t come as any surprise, it’s the colour of the H is for Home branding. It’s restful and natural, and works very well with wood – both light and dark in colour – from a blonde 1950s Ercol chair to a richly patinated antique oak coffer. Complementary tones include lime green, yellow ochre, khaki and cream. Good contrasting highlight colours include red, orange and purple – think flowers against foliage.

Bedroom with olive green painted wall and Orla Kieley bed linencredit

Olive green upholstered armchairs in a sitting roomcredit

Cushions from Lomas & Lomascredit

Kitchen with olive splashbackcredit

Exterior of a house painted olive greencredit

deep olive wall painted with Fired Earth paintcredit

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