How to brighten up your home with colour for the winter months ahead

Kya deLongchamps shows how to use on-trend paint and accessories in a way that will brighten up the house now that the wet and dull days of winter lie ahead.

A dramatic mineral grey room is lifted by harmonising lapis blue and fresh white accessorising with warming top notes of antique wood and brass. The retention of a white cornice and ceiling and silvery wide plank flooring bounces light off every surface. If your windows are double or triple glazed don’t line the curtains- diffuse that low winter sun. Image: IKEA.

Even with our thermostats set to efficiency by a phone app and flitting to the warmed house, directly from the car, winter prods at our need for visual and sensory comfort.

If you’re redecorating over the long nights, open yourself up to some new season colour with real heart.