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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

Home Tones: Olive Green

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olive green fitted bedroomcredit

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

Olive painted kitchen unitscredit

Home Tones: Khaki

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Khaki coloured Shaker-style kitchencredit

So far, we’ve only featured bright, vibrant colours in our Homes Tones series. This week’s Khaki post will really calm things down, so to speak. Make no mistake, khaki isn’t some ‘drab‘ beige or magnolia; it means business! Khaki is fashionable yet timeless – think of those classic trench coats, chinos and Bermuda shorts – and the same goes for using it in your home.

If like us you like a little flash of colour, you can team it with almost anything – fire engine red, racing green, orange, royal blue… If you don’t and prefer muted tones, match it with chocolate brown, sage green, white or even black. Khaki is such a flexible colour! 🙂

Bathroom with roll-top bath and bee print wallpapercredit

Vintage modern sitting areacredit

Modern fitted kitchen with islandcredit

Front door painted in Farrow & Ball's 'Skimming Stone'credit

Modern, pet-friendly kitchencredit

Bathroom with khaki-painted walls and black & white tiled floorcredit

Open plan lounge, dining room and kitchencredit

Home Tones: Bubblegum pink

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bubblegum pink floor and stairscredit

Pink doesn’t have to be all girly or sickly. Some men can look very smart and sophisticated when they wear pink. The same goes for home interiors.

Team bubblegum pink with bright white, charcoal grey or ‘nearly black’ and the results can be stunning. Or how about contrasting it with tangerine or turquoise for a really tropical, South East Asian feel?

So banish those thoughts that pink may conjure up of Frenchie from Grease, Pepto-Bismol or pink-dyed poodles topiaried to within an inch of their lives!

Bubblegum pink desk chaircredit

Bubblegum pink bathroom shelf surface & backsplashcredit

Bubblegum pink kitchen counter tops, sink and kick boardcredit

Turquoise upholstered sofa with bubblegum pink trim and cushionscredit

Bubble gum pink radiator, toilet brush holder and hand towel on a cloakroomcredit

Bedroom decorated in shades of grey with bubble gum pink rugcredit

Young person's bedroom with bubble gum pink feature wallcredit