Finding The Perfect Warm Neutral With Elle Decoration By Crown Paints

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[Paid partnership with Crown Paints] Selecting a neutral paint colour is a lot harder than choosing any other shade of paint. It is quite easy to distinguish between heavily pigmented colours, but with neutral tones, you have to work out what the base colour is for each shade….

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The Best Pink Paint Colours To Decorate With At Home

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Even though pink as an interior trend has been doing the rounds for a good few years now, the popularity and desire for it to feature in our home decor is just is not waning. Pink as a paint colour is still an extremely attractive choice for many, as the shade has shaken off its ‘feminine’ label and is seen as contemporary and fun..

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5 Clever And Contemporary DIY Paint Decor Ideas For The Home

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I am an absolute sucker for clever home decor ideas using paint. Paint is an affordable way to totally transform your home, so I’m always on the look out for interesting ways that people use it. Recently, I’ve seen some genius paint tricks used residentially, so I wanted to share them today on the blog...

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Bring Colour Into Your Home With The Painted Interior Door Trend

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In the past 3 weeks, I have painted 2 interior doors in my home in deep, vibrant shades. The door in my young son’s bedroom I painted in a cobalt blue. While our previously cream basement door got a lick of rich, red burgundy. Safe to say that I am a HUGE fan of the painted interior door trend. Painting an interior door in a bold shade is an easy way to add vibrant colour into your home, without having to commit to painting all the walls in a domineering hue.

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6 Easy Decor Ideas To Update A Child's Bedroom On A Budget

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As I helped my son put on his uniform for his very first day at school, I scanned his bedroom and quickly realised that he had drastically outgrown the room I had decorated for him when he was just a year old. No longer a baby, his nursery-like bus wallpaper and aeroplane-themed furniture handles did not reflect this strong-willed young boy in front of me. His room needed to be updated, so over the space of 6 months I worked on different areas of the room to make it more in-line with his age.

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Environmentally Friendly Paint: Everything You Need To Know About The Leading Eco Paint Brands

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As a child of the ‘80’s, I vividly remember my parents decorating our family home. Painting a room could only happen in the height of summer when all the doors and windows could be left open. Regardless, the harsh smell of chemical-laden paint always travelled through every room in the house. If the room being painted was a bedroom, you couldn’t sleep in it for a good few days until the fumes started to subside. The end result of a day decorating was two paracetamol for a banging headache, a dizzy spell and an early night.

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How To Pick The Perfect Paint Colour (And Get It Right First Time!)

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Choosing the right paint colour for a room is probably one of the hardest decisions to make when you decorate. Colour choice seems endless as the UK alone has over 25 well-known paint brands, whose palettes start at 100 colours, going into the thousands for the larger suppliers. Just how do you pick the perfect hue for your walls without choosing the wrong one?

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