Colours don't necessarily have to clash in home design

I harbour admiration for colour brave-hearts who embrace tones, shades and hues with gusto. 

It’s a throwback to childhood memories of a gossip-inspiring neighbourhood character, who regularly propped a ladder against the front of his house, to lavish sweeping arcs of colour across it.

The effect brought life to a terrace of net curtains, earning him the moniker The Mad Painter, and the disapproval of many of the local house-proud ladies who were just buying into the idea of magnolia.