Ways to mix and match your home decor scheme — even if it’s white

POPS, splashes, contrasts, injections — the language of colour is so warlike that many of us cower in a trench of chromophobic fear.

It’s not simply an aesthetic challenge. We have strong colour associations shovelled deep into our subconscious.

I won’t white-wash it — shades and tones, temperature; families; texture; the littering of colour cards around every corner of the hardware hangar — decorating can be a complicated business.