Creating a comfortable and stylish home is a fine balance between enduring design principles and evolving pattern and colour that bring a home to life.
Special mementos, photographs, and heirlooms give a home deeper personal significance and unmistakable character. And every scheme benefits from the occasional refresh – whether a new hue, a bold pattern, or a shift in texture – to keep spaces evolving without ever losing the feeling of home.
If you’re ready to introduce modern shades with confidence and longevity, we share our most inspiring palettes, alongside practical, purposeful ideas for moving colour through the home with intention.
Confident Colour That Endures
Some colours carry confidence far beyond trend.
Uplifting and expressive, deep orange is a shade that refuses to play it safe – but rewards those who embrace it with genuine mood-shaping impact.
Linwood's Pinball wallpaper in Papaya, with its warm, slightly coral-leaning orange geometry, creates a fresh, energetic statement that feels both of the moment and enduring in spirit. Designed in our Hampshire studio from original hand-painted artwork, it brings joyful rhythm to sitting rooms, halls, cloakrooms and bedrooms with signature studio personality and crafted flair.
The Smart Neutral: Warm, Restorative, Versatile
Every confident palette needs a grounding counterpart.
Stone is a refined neutral that sits clearer than beige, warmer than grey, and works effortlessly across heritage and contemporary settings.
Linwood’s Sienna in Fawn is a quietly rhythmic Italian weave, offering gentle tonal movement that subtly shifts as light travels across the cloth. Within a neutral scheme, it creates harmonic balance through line, form, and material character – ideal for accent chairs, tailored upholstery, or softly architectural drapery.
Lyrical Movement in Painted Pattern
Deep and poised, this blue reads more contemporary than navy, carrying expressive depth without ever feeling decorative for decoration’s sake.
Linwood’s Wave in Mineral captures the physical energy of the sea, born from original hand-painted artwork in our Hampshire design studio.
Rendered in velvet, it brings visual rhythm and quiet luxury to soft furnishings – from elegant velvet curtains to refined scatter cushions or a structured bedroom footstool – adding movement and depth without compromising timeless composure.
Soft Clay & Butter-Rich Velvets
The lustrous glint of Linwood’s Kami velvet in Topaz adds a bohemian whisper to traditional upholstery silhouettes, working beautifully when balanced against deep navy, coastal turquoise, or layered botanical accents for visual interest that never feels static.
The Return of Playful Pastels, Crafted To Last
Pink no longer whispers – it evolves.
Today’s most considered pale pink leans peach-soft rather than powder-fleeting, holding its own in thoughtfully layered storytelling.
Linwood’s Verde in Candy, woven in our durable recycled cotton blend, is washable, tactile, and designed for everyday use – including family sofas.
Olive Green: A Shade of Quiet Power
Olive and moss greens remain enduring because they adapt – bridging mid-century structure and timeless upholstery language with equal fluency.
Linwood’s Saddle II recycled leather in Moss brings architectural clarity to clean-lined sofas, offering a crafted counterbalance to button-tufted classics such as the Chesterfield.
Eco-made, design-led, and quietly composed, it delivers modern upholstery confidence without ever shouting for attention.
Archival Reds With Painterly Restraint 
Linwood’s Hinako In Dragon Fruit, a design refined from Asian Folk Art references and reinterpreted through our hand-painted studio lens, balances painterly softness with modernist restraint.