Colour Stories
5 fun facts about the colour yellow
Hello colour lover! Mother Nature has been in hibernation for the past several months and she’s now waking up and bursting into a glorious show of colour. Yellow just sings of spring for me and so this month I’m sharing with you 5 fun fact about the colour yellow! 1. Yellow is the most visible…
Read MoreOn the Colour Couch with Interior Stylist Emma Merry
It was thanks to the lovely Marianne Shillingford, Creative Director Dulux who suggested to Emma she get in touch with me given we are both colour lovers. After our first chat we both knew we’d friends. Emma just loves bold colour and yet her least favourite colour is lime green. Let’s jump in to find…
Read MoreKaren’s Adventures In Colour For February
Hello colour lovers! February isn’t a month I usually associated with colour, especially here in the UK the default is grey. To be honest, I thought where am I going to find colour this month? Wow! what a colourful month this has turned out to be. This has shown me to never underestimate that colour…
Read More5 fun fact about the colour red
Hello colour lover! If there is one colour that we have come to associate with February it’s red. Here are 5 fun facts about the colour red to show you there is more to red than red roses on Valentine’s Day. 1. Red makes things appear closer than they really are Red has the longest…
Read MoreWhat’s your Colour of Love this Valentine’s Day?
Hello colour lover! Did you know an estimated 224 million roses world-wide are grown for Valentine’s Day? That’s a lot of love going around. And it will probably come as no surprise that red is the most popular colour accounting for around 69% of roses sold in the US. If blue is the colour related…
Read MoreOn the Colour Couch with design writer and blogger Stacey Sheppard
As you’ll find out later in this interview Stacey and I met back in 2011 when she enlisted my help as an applied colour psychology specialist for her award winning blog, The Design Sheppard, to help her “understand colour better and the effects that it can have on our moods.” Since that first blog on…
Read MoreKaren’s Adventures In Colour For January
Hello colour lovers! I love that I can work remotely, travelling the world which just happens to be my other great love to colour. This allows me to escape the UK winter and have my second ‘summer’ back home in Australia. I’m someone who takes a million photos and I’ve selected a few of my…
Read More5 fun fact about the colour blue
Hello colour lover! As January seems to be dominated by talk of Blue Monday I thought I’d share 5 fun facts about the colour blue to show you there is more to blue than well… feeling blue. 1. Blue is the World’s Favourite Colour Ironic isn’t it, the colour that gets this label of feeling…
Read MoreHow to not get caught up in the ‘Monday Blues’
My guess is you’ve heard today is Blue Monday. Apparently this started back in 2005 where UK TV channel Sky Travel enlisted the help of Dr. Cliff Arnall to create a ‘formula‘ to find the most depressing day of the year. He calculated factors such as Christmas holiday withdrawals, debt, low motivational levels, poor weather etc and concluded…
Read MoreOn the Colour Couch with journalist and author Kate Watson-Smyth
I first met Kate back in 2015 when she emailed me asking if she could interview me for her book, Shades of Grey (not that one, the interior one) on the psychology of grey. Well, we all know how well that book turned out and the rise of grey. When I contacted Kate to see…
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