How to work terracotta tones into your home interiors

Terracotta makes a comeback, but this time round we’re getting adventurous and pairing it with some unexpected tones

A stand-out wall mural for a single wall introduces the on-trend terracotta family of colour in dramatic style. Contemporary Shapes mural, €40/m2 at Wallsauce.com.

Colour-phobes, look away now. We’re going back to the groovy ‘70s for a Berocca boost of orange, via the 1990s when orange reinvented itself as a brownish terracotta horror, until the interiors trendsters drove a stake through its heart and buried it beneath layers of white emulsion.

Two decades later and it’s resurrected, which, according to Cork-based interior architect and designer Ger Cooney, is a response to what’s going on in the world.