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A colour consultant's unexpectedly understated Georgian cottage, full of budget savvy hacks
House & Garden, September 2025
‘There is a joke in Harriet Slaughter’s family that if something stands still for long enough, it will get painted. ‘My mum and granny all loved painting furniture, so it must run in my blood,’ says Harriet, who swapped a career in floristry to become a colour consultant in 2022. It was a built-in pantry-style cabinet that she decided to paint soon after she moved into her Kingston cottage that got her particularly excited by the potential of colour combinations when she painted it in Paint & Paper Library’s rusty brown ‘Masai’ and poppy pink ‘Rhubarb’. ‘It just showed me how much fun you can have with colour and it left me thinking, “where can I do that again?”’ she recalls…’
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Touring a Georgian Cottage, Full of Budget-Savvy Hacks
House & Garden, July 2025
‘When Harriet Slaughter and her husband Ben Benton moved into this Georgian cottage in Kingston in 2020, it not only gave them a chance to create a home together, but also for Harriet to launch her new colour consultancy business. Tour the Georgian cottage, full of budget savvy hacks.’
Can a colour consultant transform your interior?
House & Garden, December 2025
‘Of course, the downside of a colour consultancy with a particular brand is that you are only ever going to see their colours, so I decided to book a session with independent colour consultant Harriet Slaughter, a former-florist-turned colour consultant, who offers both online and in-home consultations…’