Quirky names, cool colour combinations for 2014

Kya deLongchamps looks ahead to the shades shining from the colour palettes of the top paint houses for 2014.

Quirky names, cool colour combinations for 2014

Dew-soaked plums bobbing on a knotty, lichened branch; freshly mashed pumpkin pie steaming by the Aga; emerald mosses torn from the blue laddered light of the forest floors — reading around the paint colour cards for 2014, I was carried away on a light wind of downy prose.

Then, the needle rudely scratched the Chopin playing in my head, and I came across ‘Mole’s Breath’ by Farrow & Ball. Yes, readers, a paint name inspired by the breath of a mole. Was the consultant for F&B lying on Caulke Green grass, looking up at Lullworth Blue sky, when a mole strolled up and delivered a tiny worm-pungent gasp on his/her cheek?

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