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Publication Date: July 10, 2026 - 11:13

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Colin and Justin: Why stripes never go out of style

July 10, 2026
If decorating has a secret weapon, it might just be the stripe. Long before bouclé, colour drenching or scalloped furniture flooded social feeds everywhere, specifiers, decorators and stylists were quietly using band width to perform visual sleight of hand. Stripes, you see, can stretch a room, widen a hallway of lift a ceiling to introduce rhythm where none previously existed. To be fair, few decorating devices work quite as hard. Read More


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