Living rooms
How to choose white paint (there are 40 whites, and one is yours)
Undertones, light and a two-day test. How to find the right white in an afternoon.
Copenhagen
Maren Holt
Editor. Writes about colour, light and the quiet rooms that make a home.
Bedrooms
A bedroom for sleeping, and nothing else
We took everything out that was not about sleep, painted the ceiling dark and bought linen.
Bedrooms
Linen, wool and oak: a guide to natural materials
What each material does well, how to mix them and how to look after them for decades.
Kitchens
Three greens for a kitchen, and how to choose yours
Sage, olive and bottle green: what each one does, and the light, worktops and handles that suit it.
Bedrooms
A children’s room that grows up
Furniture that lasts, colour in things that change and storage at the right height.
Colour
Build a colour palette from one thing you love
A bowl, a rug or a painting already holds colours that work. Five steps to a whole room.
Colour
Paint the ceiling
The fifth wall is often the biggest surface in the room. Four ways to colour it, and when not to.
Bedrooms
Bedroom colours for calm evenings
Paint will not cure insomnia, but a colour that looks right under your lamps helps you slow down.