… I’ve almost decided. The weekend was spent in Margate with me peering at paint samples through a fist – it’s a good system, as it closes out surrounding colours which can throw you off, and helps me picture how the whole room might look. To an observer though it’s all very Admiral Nelson, I suppose.

Here is the result of my researches. Mental hey? It was like eating dinner inside a stomach. The ‘gent’ said something altogether more explicit. Paint colours left to right:

Great White, Farrow & Ball; Palm wallpaper, Cole & Son; Angie, Little Greene (top); Nancy’s Blushes, Farrow & Ball (middle); Calamine, Farrow & Ball (bottom); Middleton Pink, Farrow & Ball, Great White, again. Then on the far right, top to bottom, Nancy’s Blushes; Angie; Pink Ground, Farrow & Ball; Chemise, Little Greene

Records left to right:

One Trick Pony, Paul Simon; Studio One Soul, Various Artists; Funkadelic; Soundtrack to The Stud; Best of Tammy Wynette; Hunky Dory, David Bowie; Fairport Convention; Loaded, The Velvet Underground.

Are the records really pertinent? Well, this shot, of my dad’s Ella Fitzgerald Sings Cole Porter, shows both the grey floor and the Middleton Pink I like. And also a lovely peachy pink on the album cover…

The upshot of all of this is… that I think I’ll go with my first choice, Middleton Pink. I’m a chicken, a coward, yella. The other ones are gorgeous – especially Angie by Little Greene – but just too strong.

A beautiful room by the sea doesn’t need anything jazzy, and the slightly mournful feel of a pale pink seems fitting, like sea mist and a sunset. Do you agree…?

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