Paint expert Cassandra shares how not to get lost when choosing a colour palette for your interiors
When I was small, I was obsessed with adress my mother made for me. It was aperfect pale blue with mother-of-pearl buttons, and was athing of beauty. When I see this colour now, Iam transported to feelings of security, nurture and happiness. It is, of course, one of the first colours that Imade for my paint company and Ialways find aplace for it wherever I live.
Rhythms of childhood memories, as well as marks and fragments in later life, all form our unique feelings about colour. Every life choice or expectation affects what we would like to live with. And this is how you find your personal palette.
Last month Ishared the importance of making amoodboard as an integral part of telling your story of home. If you cast acolour-hunting eye over your choices, you will find colours and nuances that you have naturally put together. It may be that postcards you have gathered all have the same clean and saturated hues, or the magazine pages are all reflections on white. These touchpoints will guide you to your instinctive palette. Hold steady to this.
Then it’s time to find your ‘white T-shirt’ colours. This doesn’t actually mean white; instead, it’s the repeating colour or family of colours that feel comfortably uplifting for you to have at home and that form the base layer for everything else in your décor scheme. Choosing these first makes everything else muc
