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✨ A new makeover or DIY every other Sunday ✨

Maximalist makeovers + DIYs

More colour. Less beige.

Hi, I’m the one behind Colour Riot, and I have never met a wall I didn’t want to paint. 🎨 This is where I share my room makeovers and DIY projects, the loud, happy, pattern-on-pattern kind.

Grab a brush. Beige is about to have a very bad day.

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A narrow hallway wallpapered in a red and green diamond trellis pattern, lined with framed prints and posters under a row of hanging ceiling lights

New ✦The Hallway That Ate Pattern: A Red Trellis Makeover

How a riot happens

1
Steal the palette
Pick three colours that fight a little. Then add a fourth.
2
Clash the patterns
Stripes, florals, checks — big, medium, small, and all at once.
3
DIY the details
Squiggles, scallops and paint on everything that holds still.
4
Live loudly
No rules, no beige, no apologies. It is your home, after all.

Latest makeovers

A narrow hallway wallpapered in a red and green diamond trellis pattern, lined with framed prints and posters under a row of hanging ceiling lights

The Hallway That Ate Pattern: A Red Trellis Makeover

My hallway was a dim magnolia tunnel you only walked through to get somewhere better. Now it’s wrapped in red and green trellis wallpaper and it’s the best bit of the house.

5 October 2026 · 3 min read

Overhead view of a bed piled with patchwork bedding of smiling daisies and checkerboard squares, a cow-print cushion and a giant orange bear figure in blue overalls, between red and yellow walls and a blue daisy rug

Daisies, Checks and a Cow-Print Cushion: My Pattern-Clash Bedroom

Grey duvet, grey walls, grey mood. I swapped it all for smiling daisies, checkerboard patchwork and red walls, and I sleep better than ever.

7 September 2026 · 2 min read

A kitchen with dark green cabinets, an orange worktop and splashback, a black-and-white checkerboard floor and a red-topped table holding a bowl of fruit

Racing Green and Tangerine: My Retro Kitchen Glow-Up

I didn’t replace a single cupboard. Paint, a tangerine worktop and a checkerboard floor turned my tired white kitchen into a 1970s dream.

3 August 2026 · 2 min read

Fresh DIYs

Red and teal open shelves crammed with stacks of colourful tumblers in polka dots, florals and stripes, against coral patterned wallpaper

DIY: Scalloped, Two-Tone Open Shelves for Your Most Colourful Stuff

Plain white shelves are a crime against colourful cups. Here’s how I added a wiggly scalloped edge and painted mine tomato red and teal in a weekend.

21 September 2026 · 3 min read

A round braided rag rug made of rainbow fabric strips with a long multicoloured fringe, laid flat on grass

DIY: A Rainbow Braided Rag Rug From Old T-Shirts

That drawer of T-shirts you’ll never wear again? It’s a rug. A big, round, rainbow, fringy rug that looks like it came from a 1970s craft fair.

24 August 2026 · 2 min read

A pink-walled café with a pink and black checkerboard floor, a pale blue metal stool, a white metal chair and a table on yellow legs

DIY: Paint a Pink Checkerboard Floor (Yes, Really)

Ugly floor, no budget? Paint it. Here’s exactly how I turned a tired bathroom floor into a pink and black checkerboard in one long weekend.

15 July 2026 · 2 min read

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