Michelle Ogundehin warns against prescribed colour palettes

Inside Design Masters’ head decide, Michelle Ogundehin, warns in opposition to prescribed color palettes on your house.

A lounge color scheme, for instance, is one thing that needs to be private to you, and it actually is not a one measurement matches all. We could also be eager to determine methods to include new house decor tendencies into our house as seasons come and go, however Michelle Ogundehin believes the identical should not at all times be stated when following paint tendencies.

In an interview with Superb House, we requested her what sort of color palettes she would suggest folks go for of their properties, to which she replied, ‘Effectively I would not suggest as a result of I do not know what areas they might be doing, what their rooms are like, and I do not know their private style so I at all times suppose it is harmful to ever suggest one color.’

It is loads completely different to suggest colors on your house primarily based by yourself private present pursuits versus realizing what’d match greatest for another person with out being conscious of extra context.

‘I imply I’ve my very own private palette of colors that resonate with me, however curiously I discover myself in the intervening time fairly drawn to the neutrals, which is uncommon for me.’

‘The sandy colors, not beige as a result of that at all times sounds so ‘blah’ however the greiges, the sandy colors, and the crisp whites or crisp navy or pretty pale pink, these sorts of colors. However they should be actually textural, that is the factor. So possibly we’re seeing them on our linens, on our cushions, and our drapes and issues like that.’

Though we’re a fan of a impartial lounge thought or two and suppose that it is a type that is timeless and at all times fashionable, Michelle Ogundehin continues to say, ‘However there is a massive hazard to ever prescribe a color as a result of it might be completely different for everybody and you might want to work from the bones of the room up.’

We perceive why Michelle would slightly draw back from assigning strict color palettes as our personal likes can typically cease us from different folks’s particular person areas with a set of goal eyes.

You possibly can catch Michelle on BBC One for Collection 4 of Inside Design Masters as head decide alongside comic Alan Carr. For those who miss out, you may also tune in on iPlayer (opens in new tab).