Why home improvement has been in the pink post-lockdown

Irish social media star Catherine Carton has been indulging her love of creating, fixing and painting with some surprising results

Loving an upcycling project, Catherine took an old divan bed and fashioned it into a garden bar.

Longing as I am for a pink front door, it’s a toss-up between a hue called Setting Plaster by Farrow & Ball and the warm powdery rose of Sulking Room, the latter possibly luring me in by its association with French boudoirs of another era.

But when a few gusts of wind recently pixelated my television screen during an episode of BBC’s Harlots, I turned to Instagram for amusement and what should pop up but a kitchen unit makeover in Setting Plaster. It seems there’s a kindred pink-loving spirit out there.