DESIGN DILEMMAS: your questions answered
Every month I host a live Zoom to help with your decorating questions. This post covers ones we didn't have time for in the most recent session: colour palettes, layouts and lighting
I always get terribly nervous before our monthly Drop-in Design Clinic which is, if I’m honest, why they don’t always happen quite as regularly as they should. I worry that no-one will come, or that I won’t be able to answer a particular question, or that it won’t be useful to everyone else. And then I hit the launch button and we have so many people and usually just the right number of questions for the hour, and others come to join in as we go along, and everyone is lovely, and I think: “Oh that was great, must do it more often”. There’s probably an existential metaphor for life in there somewhere and if only it wasn’t so brain-meltingly hot I would think of it.
Anyway, this post is for those who sent in a written question - which I always like to have as back-up in case no-one comes, but for which usually don’t have time. (This is why I don’t like throwing parties.) And at this point, Bee, if you are reading, I found a note that you had a question about carpet upstairs, and I can’t for the life of me find it, so do send it again.
So there are some suggestions coming up for those questions I didn’t get to in the live session, which often involve floorplans and layouts and so require a little more illustration than is feasible on a video call.
We begin with a colour emergency from LINDA, who messaged me on a Sunday afternoon to say she had to brief her decorator at 8am the following morning and was panicking about whether to go for the bold choice of Eating Room Red in her sitting room. She had various pinkish samples on the wall but was hankering after a bit of red after apparently reading something I wrote on the joy of that particular shade. It might have been this:
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