Interior design: How to create a vibrant colour scheme for your home

We sign up for a masterclass to discover how to create the perfect colour scheme for every room

Strong colour with complementary accents creates a cohesive colourway. Picture: Michael Murphy

I am a huge fan of short courses, a day or evening to initiate me into a topic, having enough foundational information to inject a booster shot of confidence, preferably with some hands-on activity.

Last week I had a glut of two, the first of which introduced me to the basic workings of my hitherto, near-ornamental sewing machine, whose only function up to that point was gathering dust on a shelf, and the other pushed me to do something out of character: Learning about using colour in home décor which equated to a sharp shove out of my comfort zone of white, warm white and milky white.