Bring me Sunshine by Vanessa Horne our September 2025 guest contributor

If you’ve been watching Hostage on Netflix you might have noticed the hallway in Downing Street, painted a sunshine yellow.

For many years yellow has been the colour that most clients told me they hated and didn’t want anywhere in their house. Fabric houses avoided anything with even a hint of yellow, kitchens, bathrooms were white/grey or taupe. But as the saying goes ‘What comes around, goes around’ and yellow is having a happy resurgence.

It started with just an accent – a lampshade here, a cushion there, maybe a mustard throw would be considered to add a touch of colour. Not yellow – mustard. Then a yellow chair made an appearance set against a Farrow and Ball Hague Blue wall – making it feel very contemporary and not a throwback to the 70’s and early 80’s. After COVID colour was what everyone needed but it was introduced slowly.

Now in 2025 we have yellow walls (my particular favourites are India Yellow from F&B and yellow/pink from Little Greene) and yellow kitchen cabinets and yellow or marigold or sunlight fabrics are available in all the new collections - often in a ditsy print. I like Linwood’s Ima in marigold, shown in the picture. As for that famous entrance hall – the colour is top secret apparently!

So whatever you call it - yellow, marigold, bassoon, hay – try a dabble with yellow but as Coldplay sort of sang It’s all yellow.

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