Flirting with pink interiors can help lighten your home

Sam Wylie-Harris looks at a palette of pink accents in furnishings and fabrics for the coming season. Pink is spring’s biggest fashion trend — and where designers lead — interior decorators soon follow.

Even if you don’t wear pink, there are so many facets to this rosy hue that if styled correctly (much like that pink Zara trench coat that’s flying off the rails), it can lighten the home without leaving it looking like a Disney-esq doll’s house.

The secret is to blend, blend, blend... A ballet-slipper sofa, a sugar-almond cushion and a coat of pale pink gloss can be designed to shape, colour and contour, and be as flattering as your favourite blush.