We have experimented with different colour combinations from our 'Colours of England' colour card. We found that with most of us living modern lives in buildings originally designed for completely different lifestyles, there were interesting ways to use our historical ‘neutral colours’, whilst forming the basis of contemporary design schemes; not by changing them but by changing the colours used with them.
These beautiful ‘new’ colour combinations were created using natural earth pigments and often contained black, given a muted quality that is generally associated with what we believe to be ‘true’ historical paint shades, even though this soft quality was frequently the result of aging on the painted surface rather than the authentic, intended hue.