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Karen is regularly featured and interviewed in leading magazines, newspapers, radio and podcast in the UK and around the world on the subject of colour and design psychology on news related colour stories as well business branding, interiors and personal colour. If you would like to interview Karen, then get in touch.

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Choosing Home Office Colours

I explore how to choose colours that support focus, creativity, communication, motivation, and restoration.

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Refreshing Your Home

Including my insights on using colour to change how a space feels, and how we respond to it.

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Living Colour Beyond The Walls

I explore how living colour transforms gardens into spaces for gathering, restoring, and everyday living.

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Wake Up Or Wind Down?

I explore how bathroom colours can help energise your mornings or ease you into the evening.

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When Yellow Starts Feeling Wrong

Featuring my insight on why this muted yellow feels familiar yet psychologically unsettling.

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What Kitchen Colours Really Do

I explore how kitchen colours influence appetite, energy, mood and socialise.

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One Room, Many Ways To Live

I explore how colour helps your living room adapt to the different ways you use it every day.

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Princess Kate In Grey Explained

My take on the meaning behind her wearing grey and what it communicates through colour.

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Unexpected Red Theory Explained

Danish article featuring my insight on the unexpected red theory and its impact.

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Designing Neurodivergent Spaces

I share my thoughts on neurodivergent design and colour that supports individual needs.

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Creating A Happier Home In 2026

Featuring my insight on choosing colours that support how you feel and live at home.

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Using Circles In Interior Design

Featuring my insight on how circular forms influence behaviour and interaction in spaces.

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Breaking Free From Design Fixation

My take on design fixation and how it limits creativity and shapes colour choices.

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Rethinking How We Describe Colour

I clarify colour terms and what they reveal about how we truly see and use colour

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What I Never Do With Colour

I share the choices I avoid and how colour shapes behaviour in every space I design

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Power Colours for the Home

In this LivingEtc article I share how power colours can shift the way you see and feel in your home.

living etc yellow's role in interior design karen haller

Yellow's Role in Interior Design

In this LivingEtc article I explore what yellow means and the role it can play interior design.

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The Power of Colour Psychology

In this LivingEtc article I share how colour psychology transforms the way we feel at home.

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All About Brown

Featuring my take on one of interiors' most misunderstood colours and why perceptions are changing.

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A Conversation Between: Jim Biddulph & Karen Haller

I explore what if colour influences more than we realise in how we think feel and behave

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How To Help A Child Go To Sleep

My top three colours using colour psychology principles that support sleep.

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Show Your Plants Some Love

Dulux invite me to explore how we choose colours that feel right and what to avoid.

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A Colourful Catch Up

We chat about my colourful world, from my 'it's colour' moment to the colours I couldn't live without.

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Cap & Design

Konsten Använ färg pä

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Childart Magazine

The Colour Issue

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Stylist Beauty

Hair Stereotypes are dead

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The Times

The Psychology of Design

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Stylist Magazine

Go Bold or Go Home

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Architects Journal

House of Colour competition

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So Foot (France)

JOUE-T-ON MIEUX AU FOOT AVEC UN MAILLOT JAUNE ?

news cosmopolitan why red is the cool colour for summer karen haller interview read

Cosmopolitan

27 reasons why red is the cool colour for summer

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LOOK

How we're reclaiming the colour pink

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Ford

We're all going grey

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Cambridge Magazine

Going Green

Estila

Key to unlocking business brand attraction through colour

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Computer Arts

The Designers Guide to Colour in Branding

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WYZA (Australia)

How to use colour to create a happy, harmonious and highly productive home

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Good Housekeeping

Wearing your least favourite colour for a week

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Good Housekeeping

The number one way to avoid wearing colours that age you

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The Daily Good

‘World’s Ugliest Color’ Is Now On All UK Cigarette Packs

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Hospital food service

Colour by Design. Colour in catering industry.

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Caro Communications

Is colour more than simply trend-led?

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Financial Times

Shades of optimism with return of bold colours

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The Independent

Ryanair brand colour upgrade

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The Magic of Colour Psychology

Sue and I explore how colour influences us, what shapes our responses, and how we can use it with intention.

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Is Colour Missing In Biophilic

A podcast on colour as the missing link in biophilic design going beyond green and brown.

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Phos Light Tribe Podcast

We explore how colour influences emotions, shapes behaviour, and reconnects us with our true nature.

colour mixology sherwin williams karen haller

Sherwin-Williams Colormixology™ podcast

We explore how colour and design influence behaviour, support well-being, and shape our daily lives.

decorex on demand can colour trends and sustainability co exist karen haller

Can Colour Trends and Sustainability Co-Exist?

A live panel exploring the tension between colour trends and truly sustainable choices.

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Your Home Happy Podcast

Host Justine and I discuss the power of colour to transform our homes and uplift our spirits.

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Decorex 2023 panel discussion

Decorex panel where we discussed the topic 'Why do we need colour – can we live without it?'

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Why Do We Need Colour Today

A live panel on how colour can support mental health wellbeing and positive change.

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Really Pretty Good Podcast

I chat with Julie Tecson about why we all see colour differently and how to use it with purpose.

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A Book of One’s Own

I chat with Lucy McCarraher from Rethink Publishing about my journey into colour and how I got my book deal.

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Pinterest TV Biophilic Design - Colour

I chat with Stacey Sheppard (The Design Sheppard) on the important role colour plays in Biophilic design.

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Ignite Your Confidence podcast

I share my story of perseverance to create the career I always desired, despite the many setbacks.

YesColours YesTalks Series

YesColours YesTalks series

I chat with Emma and John on using colour as a form of self expression.

Brand tuned podcast

I share my perspective on how to use colour in branding to attract our ideal customers and clients.

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World Earth Day 2022 panel discussion

The Light Tribe Panel discussion focusing on Biophilic Design and Sustainability.

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Forbo Webinar

Discussing the effect and impact of colour psychology in the built environment.

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Decorex talk series

Discussing why Back to Nature is the Future when it comes to sustainable design.

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The Light Tribe

Exploring how deeply colour affects every waking moment of our daily lives.

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Designscape talk series

Discussing The Future of Trends. Are they still relevant in sustainable design?

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Altro Clerkenwell Design Week

The psychology of colour. What does it say about you and your surroundings?

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Sunday Brunch, Channel 4

The impact of colour on our everyday life (colour psychology).

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podcast all about design karen haller

The Magic of Colour Psychology

Sue and I explore how colour influences us, what shapes our responses, and how we can use it with intention.

journal of biophilic design is colour missing in biophilic karen haller

Is Colour Missing In Biophilic

A podcast on colour as the missing link in biophilic design going beyond green and brown.

our built heritage podcast karen haller

Why We Use Colour the Way We Do

We explore how history and psychology have shaped our relationship with colour, and why we use it as we do.

love life legacy podcast the quiet cost of hiding who we karen haller

The Quiet Cost Of Hiding Who We

Sue reflects on my conversation exploring courage truth and what it means to be seen.

love life legacy podcast colour courage and true expression karen haller

Colour Courage And True Expression

A conversation on colour, courage and the turning points that shape how we express who we are.

happier life project podcast the psychology of everyday colour karen haller

The Psychology Of Everyday Colour

Why we’re drawn to some colours and what they reveal about how we feel and respond.

phos light tribe podcast karen haller

Phos Light Tribe Podcast

We explore how colour influences emotions, shapes behaviour, and reconnects us with our true nature.

colour mixology sherwin williams karen haller

Sherwin-Williams Colormixology™ podcast

We explore how colour and design influence behaviour, support well-being, and shape our daily lives.

the perfume making podcast the emotional palette karen haller

The Emotional Palette

We discuss how colour shapes expectations of scent, taste, and brands long before we experience them.

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Greatest Minds podcast

We explore how colour shapes emotions, behaviours, and even the way we are perceived by those around us.

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Flock & Hive podcast

We discuss how wearing colour affects how we feel, how others feel about us, and how it's rooted in nature.

colour your happy home podcast

Colour Your Home Happy Podcast

Host Justine and I discuss the power of colour to transform our homes and uplift our spirits.

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Business Bites Podcast

I share with Karen Williams how I turned a big dream into a bestseller and my strategy to get there.

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Great Indoors Podcast

I chat with Sophie Robinson & Kate Watson-Smyth on the effect colour has on us and our behaviours.

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Not too busy to write Podcast

I chat with Penny Wincer on the highs and lows of writing a non-fiction book.

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The Psychology of Colour in Interior Design

Debut episode featuring me on the power of colour and how it shapes our experience.

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New Zealand National Radio

I chat with Tim Miller the psychology of colour and why some appear to be more divisive than others.

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Permission to Pivot Podcast

I share my rollercoaster journey pivoting from corporate life into specialism that didn’t exist.

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Power FM Radio (South Africa)

I chat with Culture Corner host Lerato Mbele on how colour psychology impacts our everyday life.

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Really Pretty Good Podcast

I chat with Julie Tecson about why we all see colour differently and how to use it with purpose.

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Cape Talk Radio (South Africa)

I chat with John Maytham how colour can affect our mood and some positive traits of our favourite colours.

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The Digital Bosses Podcast

I chat with Joe and Claire about how we can strategically use colour psychology in our business.

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New Zealand National Radio

I chat with Karyn Hay why is it that colour can lift our mood and create polarising emotions.

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What's the Worst that can Happen podcast

I share my many legal issues running my own business especially relating to IP.

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Ignite Your Confidence podcast

I share my story of perseverance to create the career I always desired, despite the many setbacks.

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Show Your Plants Some Love

Dulux invite me to explore how we choose colours that feel right and what to avoid.

Women On A Mission Podcast Looking Back On

Women on a Mission Podcast

Insights: Sue sums up with seven lessons in NOT giving up.

Women On A Mission Podcast

Women on a Mission Podcast

Discussing my business journey of taking the road less travelled.

Low Tox Life Podcast

Low Tox Life Podcast

A deep dive into the significance of colour in our lives.

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On the precipice podcast

What is colour psychology, and why is it so important.

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Designed For Wellbeing

The Power of Colour in the built environment.

The TV Carpenter Podcast

The TV Carpenter Podcast

Wayne chats with Karen about our shared love of colour.

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The Mojo Podcast

We discuss finding your true path in life.

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Interior Design Business

Discussing the impact of colour in interior design.

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Undercover Architect

How to use colour psychology in the home.

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The Inside Stylists podcast

Getting to grips with colour for the home and your life.

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The Great Indoors Podcast

Reviewing a luscious crop of new books inc. The Little Book of Colour.

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