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Decorating with multiple colours can be an intimidating task for even the most seasoned of designers. It’s all too easy to settle for safe, neutral schemes. Colour, however, shouldn’t be used just to make a statement. Gabby Deeming set herself the challenge of creating four palettes from the Mylands paint range – as shown above. Each palette is made up of four shades that can sit together harmoniously in a space, and work beautifully with fabrics and wallpapers. Over the next six pages, she suggests inspiring ways to decorate with these palettes. To find out about an exclusive House & Garden discount on all Mylands paint, visit www.houseandgarden.co.uk/mylands Photographs Sarah hogan
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MYLANDS Paint swaTCH 1 ‘Kensington Rose’, 2 ‘Bond Street’, 3 ‘Maritime’, 4 ‘Eaton Square’, 5 ‘Floral Street’, 6 ‘Notting Hill’, 7 ‘Brompton Road’, 8 ‘New Lime’, 9 ‘Indian Lake’, 10 ‘Honest John’, 11 ’Palmerston Pink’, 12 ‘Piccadilly’, 13 ‘Pebble Grey’, 14 ‘Museum’, 15 ‘Grosvenor Square’ and 16 ‘Sinner’. OPPOSITE WALLS (and woodwork) Paint (from back), ‘Eaton Square’ and ‘Maritime’, £34.66 for 2.5 litres matt emulsion, from Mylands. Wallpaper, ‘Flowerberry’ (blue), by Penny Morrison, 132cm wide, £90 a metre, at Redloh House Fabrics. FLOOR Paint, ‘Bond Street’, £21.65 for 1 litre water-based floor paint in eggshell, from Mylands. FURNITURE Fifties, French wicker and metal, linen-covered chest of drawers, 88 x 97 x 53.5cm, £5,600, at Rose Uniacke. Oak side table, ‘Ruhlmann’, 58.5 x 35cm diameter, £1,140, at Jamb. Sofa, ‘Torino’, 100 x 190 x 89cm, £4,400, at Paolo Moschino for Nicholas Haslam; upholstered in ‘Thatch’ (azure), by Katie Leede & Company, linen, £205 a metre, at Simon Playle. ACCESSORIES Oil on canvas, La Belle Serveuse, by Anthony Murphy, £7,000, at Lorfords Antiques. Rubber-wood lamp, ‘Zorba’, £100, at The Wooden Lamp Company; painted in ‘Kensington Rose’, £21.65 for 1 litre waterbased eggshell, from Mylands; with pink silk shade, £600, at Soane. Stoneware ceramics, by Emma Lacey: mugs, £24 each; jug, £21; and teapot, £85; linen tea towel, £18; all at The Conran Shop. Bamboo and steel pendant light, ‘Drom’, 51 x 43cm diameter, £1,700, at Paolo Moschino for Nicholas Haslam. Blue and white cushions, ‘Papyrus’ (amulet), by Katie Leede & Company, linen, £250 a metre, at Simon Playle. Hand-embroidered cushion, ‘Grande Prisme’ (ivory), £760, at Vanderhurd. Lambswool throw,
Curtain call Decorator Tessa Kennedy’s Knightsbridge flat – some of the contents of which are set to go under the hammer at Christie’s – is a testament to her fascinating life and opulent, eclectic style Text Christopher Stocks | Photographs Simon Brown
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Red velvet walls and curtains create a lavish effect in the drawing room. Tessa inherited many of the items from her grandmother, including the mirror and, flanking it, the pair of ormolu plaques, which were transported to England in Richard Burton’s private plane
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focus on shrubs: Part Three
THIS PAGE The large, goblet-shape flowers of Magnolia x soulangeana are a spectacular sight in spring. OPPOSITE M. stellata ‘Waterlily’ is a floriferous cultivar of this
f l ow e r P ow e r Continuing her series on flowering shrubs and small trees, Clare Foster looks at magnolias and focuses on some of the smaller, shrub-like varieties Photographs marg cousens
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Fresh connection
At a former farm in Suffolk, architect Lucy Marston created a modern home for her family from scratch, which blends with the surrounding outbuildings while having its own distinctive character Text Dominic Bradbury | Photographs Damian Russell
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Built from timber and red brick, this modern take on a traditional long house was designed to harmonise with the restored farm buildings, visible to the left of the picture
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