10 Really Smart Tips for Choosing the Right Paint Colour

How to get the colour you love without feeling overwhelmed Even the most decisive among us can find ourselves stymied when faced with paint chips or swatch books.  We think we want white walls, only to discover that ‘white’ apparently comes in hundreds of different shades, different finishes, different textures – and then we have…

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Paint and Colour Trends for Fall 2014

As we head into the last quarter of 2014, here’s a roundup of the current design, paint and colour trends for this fall: Turquoise: Pantone may have announced ‘Radiant Orchid’ as 2014’s Colour of the Year, but the colour most often turning up in cutting-edge designer rooms right now is turquoise. Want to have a…

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Radiant Orchid is the Colour of the Year. What Does This Mean for Your Living Room?

Every year, Pantone – the company which specializes in standardizing colours for industries like printing, textiles and architecture – announces its ‘Colour of the Year’. This year they’ve chosen ‘Radiant Orchid’, which would probably be described by most of us as a sort of deep lavender colour. The Pantone press release says that Radiant Orchid’s…

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