“I’m sorry I didn’t do it sooner,” says Darran Heaney, of the dramatic colour change in the principal bedroom of the Dublin ... the Phibsborough house and charts it and other inspiration ...

But before you hot-foot it to the paint shop and clean out the paint chart racks ... agrees Marianne Shillingford at Dulux. Take this serene bedroom in Dulux’s Tranquil Dawn, a hazy pale ...