Coloursmith
Journal

Inspiration

15 Favourite Front door colours

What colour is your front door? Is it a front door that still makes you happy each time you enter it? To have your door stand out or not is always a difficult choice to make. Don't forget to think about how the paint colour will look when the door is open, it needs to carry through the house.

Inspiration

Wow factor decorating with Coloursmith confidence

There is one rule of thumb for home design: Personalise. Home interiors say something about the people who live in them.

Inspiration

Bedroom paint colours for 2022

If it's high time your sleeping quarters received an overhaul, we've got the lowdown on the bedroom paint colours to consider in 2022.

Painting Tips

Before and after: A lesson in how to paint brick exterior

A fresh paint job can be an easy and cost effective way to modernise an old brick home.  While certain shades of brick can put an unappealing timestamp on your home, a lick of paint can take it from retro to contemporary chic.

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Kyal and Kara's Blue Lagoon Dream Home

Kyal and Kara's Blue Lagoon build is a coastal dream, with a beautiful and calm aesthetic. Upon completing the home, Kara did a walk through to check the final use of colour throughout the spaces.

Interior Design

Colours of the Cretaceous — telling historical stories through colour

Colour lives at the heart of this partnership to share creativity, inspiration and joy through colour across all Museum spaces.

Painting Tips

Painting Bricks

There's something about the texture of brick that makes it an appealing canvas for sensational colours in the home. While we may think of bricks as more difficult to paint, their spartan simplicity makes them deceptively easy to colour with a bit of modern painting knowhow.

Inspiration

Chromatic Joy & Colour Specialist Rachel Lacy

Recently we sat down with Taubmans Colour Category Manager Rachel Lacy to discuss her passion for colour as well as her role in creating new colours each year for Taubmans. Our most recent colour range was created with the help of the Coloursmith tools.

Inspiration

How to take colour cues from Australian flowers

Australia is known internationally for its ‘burnt’ desert and beach landscapes. However, Australians well know about our diverse range of landscapes including lush forests and bushlands.

Inspiration

Paint your home in the colours of your life

Your home is an extension of your personality so why wouldn't you personalise as much of it as you can from furniture to accessories and your impactful colour palette.

Painting Tips

Colour theory Explained

Fiona Dawson, one of our Taubmans colour specialists, walks us through the theory of colour and how a basic understanding can help you elevate a space.

Painting Tips

Creating a colour palette from a mood board.

Whether you are looking to design your home or a space for a client, creating a mood board is an effective method of putting visual details together in a cohesive vision.

Inspiration

Camille Walalaa long life in the sunshine

Camille Walala is a London-based artist that creates positivity, expressed through vibrant colour and bold pattern. Her most popular work is known for explosively colourful, large-space installations in public spaces.

Inspiration

Yinka Ilori colour obsessed

Known for fusing his British-Nigerian heritage and contemporary design, artist Yinka Ilori specialises in storytelling through vibrant colour. Inspiration can come from anywhere.