Pairing green, yellow and blue
Continuing my love for Emma Sims-Hilditch’s Courtyard Room, I was obsessed with the room’s colour palette of yellow, green and blue. Yellow and green shiplap, doors, windows and woodwork sat side-by-side alongside a vintage blue antique dresser, blue delft tiles and a large soft blue lantern sourced via Charles Edward. I have to say these are not three colours that I would think to combine together myself, but the palette worked so well. It is definitely a combination that I will be incorporating into my own home in the future.
Proving the ‘unexpected red’ theory, correct
You couldn’t escape the viral ‘unexpected red’ theory from interior conversations last year. The claim that by “adding anything that’s red, big or small, to a room where it doesn’t match at all and it automatically looks better” was a convincing argument to me as a fan of using red in my home, but I had never seen a better example of it than in the Treasure House Fair Morning Room, designed by Daniel Slowick. This very traditional room full of antiques (Daniel is an antique dealer as well as an interior decorator) was full of trellis print, a 17th-century bookcase and gilt tables, but it was the vibrant red coffee table, placed centrally in the room, that lifted the entire scheme. To source something similar, try [Modern Furniture by Two Seventy nine.
A focus on texture
Something that I really need to do more of is include texture within my room schemes, and there was loads of textural inspo at WOW!House. From the customised, previously plain Soho Home lampshade in the Cox London entrance hall (which had been hand-stitched to add detail), to wicker planters full of foxgloves in the Entrance Courtyard, (designed by Alexander Hoyle. There was just something about adding more tactility to items which otherwise could have flat surface areas.
