A Letter from Home

What is your favourite? Colour I mean. And how on earth do you choose the right shade? Are you guided by fashion? By a sense of ‘good taste’? Or do your leanings stem from a much deeper, more intuitive and meaningful connection? We all know well that colour can set a mood and change the ambience of a room but in my experience many of us are drawn almost unwittingly to certain hues again and again. One person’s subliminal bond to yellow will be as powerful as another’s apparently random aversion to green. I have a theory that we are all born with an internal colour palette, tempered perhaps by childhood resonances.

We may be tempted to dabble with other tones but we feel most comfortable living within certain colour climates. Open your wardrobe and you may well find that your clothing leans towards the same hues as your walls, which is no bad thing. I read once that eighteenth-century society ladies often chose schemes to complement the colour of their eyes, which sounds both eccentric and eminently sensible. If a shade suits your complexion, then what better choice than to surround yourself in it completely? Alongside beautiful ideas for adding character with antiques and romantic interiors created with vintage effect fabrics, this issue is bursting with colour. It offers, I hope, something to tempt everyone… and who knows... perhaps also some colour schemes to flatter to your eyes.

With warmest regards,

Kerryn Harper-Cuss, Editor