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Indigo: the colour for 2013 Gorgeous inky indigo has been predicted as a key trend for 2013 by both Dulux and AkzoNobel’s Aesthetic Center, Colour Futures. The latter calls it a "striking statement colour associated with wisdom and honesty enhances your home environment." Indigo can be anywhere between an inky blue and a purple shade Dulux's Indigo Night

Off to a grand Victorian house in south London this week which has taken full advantage of the large rooms and high ceilings to really make bold use of colour. But before you worry this isn't for you, the colour drenching used throughout this property works brilliantly in smaller rooms with lower ceilings so this

A mix of things I did and saw this week which seems to have shaken out into autumn colours with stripes and checks. I never start off with a theme but one often tends to emerge; this was inspired by a trip over to west London to the Anya Hindmarch Home pop-up and an email

So who's seen The Dig then? I was all set to bring you a post of fabulous wallpaper and antiques based around the themes of the film (I've bought a pair of brogues) but I haven't, as yet, been able to track down any decent interiors shots of the film (I'm all over Carey Mulligan's

Happy Monday to you all and happy July. We may not be completely in the swing of summer weather yet (at the time of writing it's only just begun) but with both boys starting their longest holidays - post A level and GCSE - things have certainly moved down a gear at The Mad House.

Every year the interior design world gathers in Milan for the international trade show which takes place not only in eight airport hangars on the edge of the city, but also all around the central streets in pop up shops, gardens and palazzi. Nearly 500,000 people will fly in to see nearly 2,000 exhibitors and

And just like that it was half term. A quiet palette for you today as I spent last week travelling (two days in Milan ad one in Glasgow) so am feeling the need for something restful today. Fortunately it's half term and while the boys will be doing their own thing, it does mean that

Is that it? Is the coast clear? Have they finally gone back to school? Is the house silent? Are you secretly relieved to be back at work? I thought so and it's ok to say it out loud. I always used to say that my holidays began when the school term started which isn't exactly

Welcome to this week's edition of 10 Beautiful Rooms and the best of this week's instagram, and yes we are, so far, resisting the Christmas decorations for another week. Today is all about warm and cosy spaces and, it turns out, quite a lot of fabulous bedrooms. devol kitchen But while you wander through these

We have all become much more adventurous with colour when it comes to our walls (and furniture come to that) but sometimes it pays to be a little more adventurous when it comes to ways of using that colour. Regular readers among you will know that I am always banging on about painting the skirting

Well you weren't expecting THIS were you? Last year we were all aghast when the 2017 colour of the year was Denim Drift. We had been expecting green. So we all knew it would be green this year. Except it isn't. Nor is it, as you might have been forgiven for thinking from looking at