Jennifer Sheahan: How colour blocking transforms our homes

Colour blocking is effective in so many different ways when we're creating an interior design look for any room

Colour blocking is used to divide a single space into zones, effectively turning one room into many with the DFS Bellissima sofa.

Probably the most familiar use of colour blocking in the home is the infamous accent wall. I use the word infamous because while some people do like accent walls, many others (including myself) do not. The reason I don’t often like them is they’re often incongruous and unbalanced — they stand out like a sore thumb and don’t contribute to the overall design of the room. 

Usually, I hear people saying they want accent walls because they really like a particular bold colour but don’t want to paint the entire room with it. This is a perfectly valid reason, but there are better ways to do this rather than just painting one wall and calling it done.