Making a home

Paint expert Cassandra shares how not to get lost when choosing a colour palette for your interiors

When I was small, I was obsessed with a dress my mother made for me. It was a perfect pale blue with mother-of-pearl buttons, and was a thing of beauty. When I see this colour now, I am transported to feelings of security, nurture and happiness. It is, of course, one of the first colours that I made for my paint company and I always find a place for it wherever I live.

Rhythms of childhood memories, as well as marks and fragments in later life, all form our unique feelings about colour. Every life choice or expectation affects what we would like to live with. And this is how you find your personal palette.