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HOMES And GARdEnS
Your Spring Home in 2014
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his season’s backdrop colour will be a warm, sophisticated grey known to designers as paloma. It’s a versatile shade that will allow other trends like luxe - a boutique hotel room look with modern lines - or mix and match metallics to come to the fore.
Opposite: Prestigious Textiles’s Pemberley stripes and damask fabrics with duck egg, cornflower and stone colourways.
Victorian botanical designs will look good in your spring rooms too, perhaps as an etching design within wallpaper or as a print in textiles. These work well in bedrooms with floral bedlinen in sage and cornflower, and perhaps tongue & groove panelling in the same colours in rustic bedrooms and bathrooms.
Above/Left: Duresta’s Trafalgar sofa range. Above: Cushions from Jane Churchill collection; Munro in steel, Loren in silver, Fontane in pewter and Carus in gold. Chair in Calista, silver.
Stripes will provide soft furnishings designers with inspiration, and tartan patterns will also look good with blue, sage and hints of raspberry. Take your lead from anything natural or traditional, and add a hint of luxe with flashes of gold and fabrics with metallic sheens. “The colours we will want to use in our homes over the next year reflect our instinctive need to turn our backs on the hard flat surfaces which dominate modern life.” says Farrow & Ball’s design director Sarah Cole. “Our Cooking Apple Green, Stiffkey Blue, Purbeck Stone and Mole’s Breath, all bring us back in touch with nature and are our key colours of 2014. Our inspiration has been gathered from either the seashore or the landscape. They are all easy to use and create quietly stylish, but ultimately comfortable, homes.” As always, we recommend taking advantage of both the design experience, expertise and fabric & wallcovering libraries of the county’s interior design specialists, as listed here.
Left: Portfolio collection, by Clake and Clarke,
Finding Out More BROOKSIDE CARPETS & CURTAINS: 123 St Mary's Rd, Market Harborough LE16 7DT. Tel: 01858 433334. web: www.brooksidecarpets.co.uk. ELIZABETH STANHOPE INTERIORS: Mill Street, Oakham LE15 6EA. Tel: 01572 722345. web: www.elizabethstanhope.co.uk. J & L BALL INTERIORS: north St, Stamford, PE9 1EH. Tel: 01780 481416. www.jandlball.co.uk. SARAH HARDING INTERIORS: Market St, Town Centre, Uppingham LE15 9qH Tel: 01572 823389. web: www.sarahhardinginteriors.co.uk
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