Colours that make you happy

Colour – on walls, joinery, soft furnishings or via accessories – has a truly transformative effect: it impacts the mood of a home’s inhabitants, as well as having the power to change an architectural

Whether it’s red as the colour of love, yellow the colour of optimism or black the colour of mourning, we tend to associate colours with certain meanings. But there is much more to what we associate w

Red and green should never be seen – or so they say. Whoever came up with that sage (pardon the pun) piece of sartorial advice obviously hadn’t seen mint with burgundy or the palest eau de nil with a

There’s a science and an art to using colour in the home, but there's no need to fear bolder shades, says the author of a new book

Tom Morris of Morrisstudio is known for his love of rich, earthy tones, so we posed him the colour questions you ask us most

Livingetc colour expert Amy Moorea Wong on a living room palette that’s soft yet rich all at once