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ideal home show 2015 colour consultation karen haller

Ideal Home Show 2015 – win free bedroom colour consultation

As part of my exciting year long partnership with Hammonds Furniture I’m really looking forward to spending the day at the Ideal Home Show, Olympia on Tuesday 31st March as their in-house colour expert.

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Dulux Colour of the Year 2015 radio day with Rebecca Williamson

It feels like only yesterday Rebecca Williamson and I were on radio talking about Dulux 2014’s Colour of the Year, Teal. Today we teamed up again to talk about this year’s Copper Blush.  It was another marathon session giving 14 radio interviews within 3 hours with a combined listenership close to 5 million across the…

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dulux colour of the year 2015 – copper blush with sophie ellis-bextor

Every year Dulux UK, together with a well-known name, create a beautiful colour story, bringing Dulux colour of the year to life. Last year it was Alesha Dixon with Teal and the year before Nicola Roberts with indigo blue. I’ve been eagerly awaiting this year’s story and today I received the ‘hot off the press pictures’. This year…

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Dulux Colour Blush – Trend Colour for 2015

Dulux have announced their Colour of the Year for 2015 is ‘Copper Blush’. A tone they say “breathes warmth into interiors”.

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thomas pocklington homes and living spaces for people with sight loss a guide for interior designers

Thomas Pocklington – Homes and living spaces for people with sight loss: a guide for interior designers

Wednesday night was the launch of the first in a series of professional guides from the charity Thomas Pocklington. The guide’s author, Jacqui Smith, an interior designer, lost the sight in her left in 2012. She realised there was a need for a guide to be written and approached Thomas Pocklington. The result is the Homes and living spaces…

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care show sbid panel discussion the colour of healthcare design

care show SBID panel discussion: The Colour of Healthcare design

This year’s Care Show are packed with great talks, group discussions and presentations at both the Keynote Theatre and the Dementia Care Seminar Theatre with the one aim: to improve healthcare design in UK. This year five members of the SBID (Society of British and International Design) Healthcare Design Advisory Council will come together to discuss ‘The Colour…

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the great british bedroom colour survey

The Great British Bedroom colour survey

Following on from the posting the The Great British Bedroom Survey infographic, I was asked by Hammonds Furniture to delve a bit deeper into the results of their recent UK survey findings and what the colours we choose for the bedroom reveals about us.

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The Great British Bedroom Survey infographic

I’m thrilled to be teaming up with Hammonds furniture as their colour psychology expert for their campaign on bringing colour into the home. We started with a nation-wide survey as we were really interested to find out exactly what Britain’s views are on redecorating the bedroom, their most popular colour choices and along the way we…

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The Psychology Behind the Tech Giants Office Design

In our modern, mobile world people can be productive anywhere and anytime, but this is not to say that the office is disappearing. In fact more than ever the office needs to be a place where people actually want to spend their working hours. Contemporary offices are now more than about just functionality. They have…

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five of my favourite colourful finds this month .

five of my colourful finds this month… may

Wrapping up May with five of my favourite colourful finds. I hope you enjoy them too.

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