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Little Greene x Museum of the Home

October 18th, 2022

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Little Greene colours have been used to create a series of vibrant spaces in the Home Galleries at Museum of the Home, in Hackney, London. Bright and bold shades provide the perfect backdrops to echo a fascinating history, as the Museum explores the concept of ‘home’ over the past 400 years.

Museum of the Home opened in June 2021 with a vision to “reveal and rethink the ways we live, in order to live better together”. The Museum has a long connection to the history of home through its own home, eighteenth-century almshouses built for retired ironmongers and their families.

The Museum's collections are home to a rich collection of stories, furniture, paintings and woodwork. Following a major programme of redevelopment, excavating underneath the almshouses to create more gallery space, the Home Galleries were created to invite visitors to explore the concept of home through people’s everyday experiences of making, keeping and being at home over the last 400 years. This contemporary space complements the Museum’s Rooms Through Time exhibition, which features a number of room sets depicting family life and interiors through the last four centuries.

The range of colours include the strong and contemporary orange and yellow shades, Heat and Yellow-Pink, which make a real impact in the ‘Getting Comfortable and ‘Faith’ spaces. Our vibrant blue-green Canton provides a cocooning feel ideally suited to the ‘Entertainment’ space. For a luxurious ambience, the deep indigo, Woad, and timeless Celestial Blue complement the decorative gold frames of the ‘Relationships’ gallery.

Sonia Solicari, Director, Museum of the Home, said:

“We were thrilled to work with Little Greene on the creation of new galleries at the Museum of the Home. Located in eighteenth-century almshouse buildings, the Museum curates spaces on a domestic scale. Since the earliest civilisations, colour has been integral to the making of a welcoming and comforting home. Colour is also at the heart of style, taste and identity - historically and now - which we seek to uncover at the Museum, through the lens of home and the decorative choices we make.

Little Greene’s jewel-like paints draw visitors through the galleries, inviting exploration. Each room colour has been carefully chosen to reflect the subject matter, and the objects on display – tapping into the emotions and psychology of home, as well as home as a physical space.”