I painted almost every room of my house a shade of grey almost 10 years ago, and I wrote about it. Grey has been my go-to neutral because of its versatility; like a pair of grey pants, it goes with everything.
But greyters call the colour depressing, dull and too safe. Gillian Gillies, a Toronto-based, Scottish-born interior designer who has never embraced grey, says she hopes the pandemic has ended the colour's run as the "in" neutral.
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A guest bedroom, painted with a ubiquitous shade of grey.
"We need hope, joy and the promise of brighter things, and I don't think grey can offer us that." She says her clients, who at one time were clamouring for grey, are suddenly requesting highly pigmented, saturated colours, such as aubergine, saffron yellow, and all shades of green.