Take a fresh look at the colour brown. It’s a gamechanger in room revamps

Based on the primary colours — yellow, red, and blue — brown can be a highly versatile and vibrant interior decorating choice

A more sandy brown, perfect with rattan for a relaxed nostalgic style. Fleetwood Coffee Break, from €25 per litre, fleetwood.ie.

Brown. It’s familiar, fascinating, the original Marmite, with its most infamous hour in the 1970s, when chocolate velvet slouch couches grooved with canyons of beauty board. 

In psychology terms, brown has a calming, enfolding quality, resonating with the tones of timber and earth. It’s said to deliver a profound sense of serenity, reaching into our primal relationship with nature.