One of the most transformative things you can do to a space is add colour – its one of the most over the counter, mood changing components around. It makes you feel uplifted, happy and if you are me an overwhelming urge to dance when you get it right. When you don’t get it right like last weekend in my pad for example it makes you so frustrated you stay up to midnight painting the whole thing back. One colour I have never dabbled with is pink – accessories, blooms, rugs perfectly happy to go with but pink on walls and my self doubt kicks in. However I am coming around to the idea of pink but more of a blush really. Beautiful in bathrooms or dressing rooms I’m thinking.So lets talk pink for a minute its one of those hues that does far more than it says on the jar – it relaxes, it excites and it provokes glamour and romance. Pretty darn cool hey. It’s way more versatile than you might think, and yes boys will freak when you possibly mention painting walls pink but then change the name of the colour call it blush or pearl or some such thing – its worked for me, hey I think I called deepest darkest black summer cloud! Opps
Photography Earl Carter.
How do you read my aesthetic mind like you do?
… there is a specific hue of the softest petal pink, that when slathered on the walls in Venetian Plaster, sets the whole house aglow in a blush.
Cheers!… to finding our ticklish spot.
oh dear what happened with your amazing paint that was from France, did it not work xxx
Regrettably it didn’t work in the room I intended for far to much light and far too lilacish for me. Instead I’ve used it in my kitchen on the lower ground floor and its heavenly and am about to use in my bathroom. The double height glass wall extension threw far too much light at it almost turning it pastel. It was bad!
i know the feeling we painted our kitchen diner green thinking it would look like a summer meadow and instead looks like toxic pea soup,, oh well i tried !!! xx
OOOH shame about the Lave! I painted my entire sitting room Squid ink and immediately regretted it, way way too green! It’s so frustrating, but as you say, dance inducing when you get it right, my sitting room is now Plummett a lovely F and B grey, I’m still not dancing though, bit battleship?
Now, I do love that soft blush pink it’s stunning, and soooo glamorous, I particularly like the second pictures and the chalkiness of the paint I wonder what it is? Slightly sick of all my friends little girls pink rooms though, I guess that’s where it shouldn’t be used!!!
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