March 2025 News
March 2025
Welcoming Spring: A Time of Renewal
As the first whispers of spring brush across the landscape, we are greeted by the subtle yet undeniable changes in nature. The once crisp, muted tones of winter start to give way to the gentle warmth and vibrancy of the season. Days stretch longer, with daylight slowly returning to fill the air with energy. As the sun rises higher, it casts a softer, golden glow, inviting us to step outside and take in the new colours emerging from nature’s canvas. The buds on trees, the delicate hues of early flowers, and the expansive green of the grass all signal that a season of growth and possibility has arrived.
Finding Warmth in Blue
During the winter, many of us will have spent the entirety of the daylight hours away from our homes. Against the harsh outside, our homes become habitats that bring comfort and warmth. Spring therefore marks a shift in how we see our homes, both metaphorically and physically. All across the natural world, Spring represents a time of rebirth and rejuvenation. For us humans, shrouded in newly found light that bellows into every nook and every cranny; it is a calling for change. An itching desire to test out whether that sofa could work over there or to move that giant wardrobe for the thousandth time, just to know it wouldn’t work anywhere else. We deep clean, we rejig, we create something new. At such a moment, the colours we might be drawn to tend to be the polar opposite of the warmth we so craved in autumn, instead welcoming the clean, cold light of the newfangled sunshine.
Blue may be a shock contender after serving a long sentence with the chilled Winter sun, but the coldest colour needn’t be so glacial. There are many ways to transform a blue, you can pull it towards a grey using umbers, push it into warmth with iron oxides, pull it back into the greenish hues with a little ochre and so on; the more you do the more complex the colour becomes. The best of our blues will use the most differing pigments which allows them to shift with the light throughout the day. Throw the summer sun at a good blue and it will beam bright and light, give it the autumn warmth and you can draw on the ochres and oxides to find warmth, place a shadow over a well lit wall and watch the vivid violets release.
This Month’s Colour Palettes: A Fusion of Warmth and Coolness
In the spirit of spring, this month’s curated colour palettes explore the fusion of cool and warm tones. We’ve focused on extracting warmth from traditionally cool colours, creating combinations that feel fresh yet grounded. These pairings bring together a blend of serenity and energy, perfect for those looking to infuse their homes with a sense of renewal without overwhelming the senses. By introducing subtle earthy tones to cooler hues, we’ve found a way to complement the season’s natural light, making each room feel open, inviting, and full of possibility. This month, we invite you to experiment with these palettes and let the evolving light of spring guide your choices, whether you’re refreshing a single wall or reimagining an entire space.
As you embrace the season, think about how colour can help you define the mood of your home. Whether you’re drawn to the calm embrace of blue or looking to balance coolness with a touch of warmth, now is the perfect time to experiment. Spring brings with it a sense of rejuvenation—let your space reflect this energy by exploring the transformative power of colour.
Our first palette partners the complex blues of Hibiscus Blue from the Mughal Spring Collection, and Silent from the Sadhana Collection, with the subtle ochres in Christophe’s White from the Original Collection. The final palette uses the yellowish glow of the Christophe’s White to invite the two blues away from their violet tendencies, allowing those red hues to sort of vanish from the eyes perception whilst retaining the warmth that they bring.
The second palette had to be our Salt Lake 1, 2 and 3 from the Fresh Collection. Formulated with each other in mind, the Salt Lakes journey through the warmth of yellows and reds. In isolation Salt Lake 1 can appear almost greenish, whilst Salt Lake 3 presents obvious pinkish undertones from the burnt. umber that makes up half of its formula. Together, however, there is balance and the range can be mistaken, at times, as a tonal gradient of the same colour. This palette can be used as a sort of colour drench, where the ceiling might be Salt Lake 1, the walls in Slat Lake 2 and the woodwork in Salt Lake 3. This way of working, where you surround yourself in colour, cocoons you with very slight variations in tone and colour to create a calm and coordinated atmosphere.
Our third palette was built to accentuate the central blue tone – in this case, The Sea from the Solace Collection, a complex colour that bends towards any accent you surround it with. Today we have used the calm and clean Chai Firoji from the Mughal Spring Collection and the strong and complex warming neutral of the Cappuccino from the Tenth Collection.
Our final palette is a little brighter with that bold accent from the Fidel, which is part of the Cuban Collection. To balance the Fidel’s affinity to its violet side, we have paired it with the subtle clean greens of the Haveli Sky from the Mughal Spring Collection and balanced it with the brilliant neutrality of the Giacomo’s Cement from the Original Collection.
Colour of the Month
This month’s Colour of the Month is The Sea from The Solace Collection which exemplifies what it is to be a warm blue, used here in Eco Emulsion for a matt and flat finish with a lovely velvety appearance. The Sea, perhaps obviously, takes inspiration from the sea itself – specifically the cloud coated waters of Norfolk, where a reddish hue was drawn out of this moody blue. Here, we have replicated that feeling by calming our blue pigment using raw umber, a sort of dark greenish brown which brings a vibrant blue closer to a mature grey. We take our newly muted blue and add the warmth of a few more natural pigments: yellow ochre to make warming green, burnt umber to bring in earthy, reddish notes, shifting our green back to a blue and finally the vibrant intricacies of our violet pigment. These subtle additions absorb light in unpredictable ways and give us a blue which can appear to bend towards greenish hues under warm lamp light, violet in strong summer shadows, vibrant blue in the evening and light in the midday sun.
