Chalky black is a daring choice for your interiors scheme

For the spooky, scary weekend that’s in it, Kya deLongchamps is going back to matt black for her hallway. And, she says, it’s a look that’s really cool right now.

It could be just Halloween madness, or the inspiration of my pussy oak dresser with its pseudo-Tudor pretence at ebony, but this weekend I’m determined to paint my hallway soft black.

Black in large quantities over walls and floors seems to fly in the face of everything we know in terms of true colour. It devours natural and artificial light whole in large, spirit sucking bites.