Better Home: Better Health with Michelle Ogundehin

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How to 'do' pink

How to 'do' pink

Muted, pale and always interesting, if you pick the right shade

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Powder Pink

1 Number one on the soothing charts. Powder pink is a wonderful shade — think rose quartz with a smudge of grey — and less overtly feminine than baby pink, which means it works for the men in our lives too. Great for bedrooms to bathrooms, it's tremendously adaptable, sitting well with wood, metallics, stone, neutrals to black and white monochromes.

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It’s an especially good choice for bedrooms though because it prompts calm and restfulness. Team it with white, dove grey and terracotta for the ultimate cool sleep palette (see below), keeping it interesting with layered bedsheets and eiderdowns.

Adding some sugar and spice: bedlinen from Aiayu (aiayu.com)
House designed by the London-based Chan + Eayrs Architects. Photograph by Michael Sinclair. First featured in the October 2016 edition of ELLE Decoration.

Plaster Pink

Plaster pink or powder pink? The two are incredibly similar to be fair, however, as a colour pedant, I think plaster pink is warmer, with more red in it, in contrast to

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