Scandi noir meets brilliantly bright
Dive deep for colours
Deep, rich colours are back, balanced by vibrant prints and textures. The reassuring comfort of blues, rich deep hues and vibrant prints on walls and in fabrics like velvet are just what people need right now. They are what you want to hunker down with for winter and wish that the freezing cold, Brexit and the more vexatious politicians would just go away. Use them along with a contemporary twist of vibrant prints to complement, the latter often coming in African, Navajo and kilim patterns. And all combine perfectly with our continuing love of powdery greys and neutrals to lift the look.
BEAUTIFULLY BOLD
Perhaps it was the V&A London exhibition of personal artefacts and clothing belonging to the iconic Mexican artist Frida Kahlo that inspired the wave of hot Mexican colours, patterns and portraits of the woman herself. Who knows what trends V&A Dundee will go on to inspire. The prints are bold and beautiful, instantly brightening a room and amidst the somber Scandi colours and subdued hygge shades perhaps we all need a sudden burst of bright. The 70s keep raising their head in the fashion world and look to be heading homewards. House plants were so big back then (Swiss cheese plants were known to devour half a room). Anyone remember Elaine C Smith on her mum’s purple swirly carpet and curtains back in the day: ‘Drugs? We didnae need drugs’. We draw the line at a woodchip paper revival.