Grey daze

Carol O’Callaghan looks at how the current vogue for grey interiors can bring warmth and sophistication to the home.

SNUGGLY throws, cosy sofas and squishy cushions are so comforting at this time of year when the winds are howling, rain is falling in diagonal sheets and dark clouds seem to cover the sky more often than not. Strange then isn’t it how we’ve embraced the current vogue for grey interiors.

It’s not a colour we would have chosen a few years ago because of its association with the dreariness of spending so much of our year under a canopy of grey skies, but thanks to the adoption of grey walls instead of white in chi-chi art galleries, and a glut of grey outfits on the fashion cat-walks last year, we’ve bought into the look for our interiors with gusto. And it has to be said grey is an excellent backdrop to our art and photography as it seems to draw out the vibrancy of colour in pictures but also softens the stark monochrome of black and white photos.