At a glance Every stand at Decorex is immaculate - ours was lived in. For the Trade preview of The Colours We Keep, COAT built a home mid-life rather than a showroom, and filled it with small pieces of evidence pulled straight from the campaign's character films. Visitors who looked closely found a cereal box, a pencilled height chart, a pie still on the side, poetry on the fridge, post on the console table and a set of car keys. Each one belonged to someone from The Colours We Keep short films.  The concept The Colours We Keep is ten...

  In Walthamstow, a bright but anonymous new-build duplex has been transformed into a warm, characterful home that feels entirely its own. London-based interior design studio Consult by FD used COAT to swap blank white walls for a layered palette of earthy terracottas and soft greens. Proof that even the newest of new-builds can be full of soul. The clients came to Consult by FD shortly after moving in. Their new home felt impersonal, and they wanted interiors that reflected who they are without compromising their sustainable values. Consult by FD took a considered approach, building on what was already...

Weezie's, the new neighbourhood pizza and wine spot, is the kind of place that feels like it's always been there. Warm, unpretentious, and full of character. A space designed for long evenings and good company, where the details matter without ever feeling overdone. Weezies’s Owner, Abbie Roden, came to COAT with a simple brief: create somewhere that feels genuinely lived-in rather than overly designed. Somewhere you could pop in for a quick pizza and a pint, or settle in for the night. "We love restaurants that feel full of personality rather than overly polished," explains Abbie. "I wanted to keep...

In Mexico City, the taxis are pink. Hot pink. The streets are crammed with them, they honk, dart and weave their way across a wide, colourful city. And yet, within a day, you stop noticing them. Somehow, hot pink blends into the background. It becomes a neutral. “Pink as a neutral” has been a personal colour philosophy ever since.  It isn’t about the shade. It’s the warmth. A warmth and a can’t-quite-give-a-name-to-itvibrancy that I felt and saw everywhere in Mexico City. It’s a mood that has become my north star for any design project. Shop Molly's palette here.  I visited Mexico City in...

I have always been drawn to green and blue. Not one or the other, both, together, the way they exist everywhere in nature if you stop long enough to notice. The way the sea meets the cliff. The way a garden bleeds into the sky on a clear morning. I grew up in West London and it was there I first learned to see it, the green of the parks, the grey-blue of the Thames, the sky pressing between the buildings. It is a contrast that has followed me my whole life, and it is the reason I picked up...

In a south-west facing living room with limited natural light, Alice Gaskell chose COAT's Out of Office to bring warmth, cohesion and quiet depth to a space designed for relaxing, entertaining, and living well. "When I'm choosing a paint colour for a room, I'm never purely focusing on something that simply functions," explains Alice. "Colour plays such an important role in how a room makes you feel - and in this space, I wanted warmth, ease, and a mood of real contentment." Out of Office was applied across all the woodwork - bookcases, skirting, and cornices - where its softly chalky,...