Summer colours paint a picture of inspired interiors

Want to decorate your home like a professional and impress friends with your knowledge of the freshest interior colour trends?

Here Crown Decorating Centres’ interiors specialist Kathryn Lloyd shares her wealth of knowledge fresh from the decorating equivalent of the fashion catwalk.

Kathryn is a member of Crown’s Colour Influences Panel which each year brings together professionals from across the UK to set the trends that shape professional interior design schemes.

This season sees bold statement colours and designs sitting alongside muted pastels which mean there is a look to suit all tastes, and to enable you to zone your home according to mood and use.

Explains Kathryn: “Nothing makes a bigger impact upon our mood, feelings and behaviour than colour. Colour schemes set the back drop to your homes; reflecting personal taste, personality, culture and interests. Colour is quite simply one of the most important elements in home design.

Here are the Colour Influences Panel’s interior design recommendations to be right on trend over the coming summer.

‘Stillness’ is the first palette in the collection intended to induce a relaxed mood. Here the graduation of colour mimics a hazy sunrise and creates a serene space, perfect for reflection. The soothing shade of yellow fades into architectural greys, with a clever ombre effect reflecting the subtlety of water colours.