The paint job...

I may have mentioned about a brazillion times before that I am a complete demon with a paintbrush.  Everything around here seems to get painted if it stands still for long enough. So I was totally in my  element when Dulux asked me to style some rooms in their fab new 2012 colour palettes.  It started off as three rooms, but somehow turned into six, so for a month or so all I could think about was paint.  And all my family heard about was paint. And all my friends heard about was paint.  Sorry guys!

It all started with the delivery of six white envelopes containing the six palettes that were developed by Dulux's incredible colour guru, Andrea Lucena-Orr.  I narrowed down my favourite shades from each palette and started to put together some mood boards.

After much adding, subtracting, to-ing and fro-ing, the boards filled up and the rooms came together.  And the best part?  I didn't have to do the painting as Dulux supplied their star painters to carry out my ideas. Heaven!  Three of the rooms were located at a fabulous beach house on the peninsula, and the other three rooms we used were here, at my home.  I was very lucky to work with the highly respected photographer,  Mauro Pomponio,  who Dulux has trusted with its images for many years.  We had two very long, crazy days of shooting at both locations, but loads of lols and fun as well.

My dining room was the first to get the Dulux treatment, with the deep, inky, dive-into blues of the Immerse palette. Not even my dining table and chairs escaped the paintbrush, each being painted a different delicious blue. Here are a few of my favourite shots from this series.

I thought the undercoat looked really elegant too!

My lovely Annebelle's room was the next to be transformed, in a fabulous, Lady Ga-Ga inspired palette of hot pinks and purples.  Here is the delightful master painter,  Sohrab, showing us his steady hand.

Here is how Annebelle's room turned out. I am very glad to say that she loved the stripes and decided to keep them!

I'll pop the other four rooms up very soon.
Hx