The New Year interior colour trends you need to know about

Colour trends for the New Year offer all sorts of decorating possibilities, writes Carol O’Callaghan.

In a few days we’ll have the solstice, and before you know it the evenings will be getting longer, offering us the promise of spring and the lovely soft light that comes with it.

The downside, of course, is that this same light shows up all the flaws in our décor, be it white paint yellowed from open fires; patches peeled away by Christmas decorations that were applied with double sided tape, or just the general wear and tear inflicted on the home by a year or more of domestic traffic.