title: Changing Rooms: Colour
author:  Linda Barker 
description: This text aims to banish decorating disasters. It explains how to achieve a colour scheme that suits the reader's home and lifestyle. Drawing on projects from the television series, it shows how to take advantage of the many shades, textures and types of wall covering available.
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  Devil’s Bargain
  
  Jade Lee  
    
    
  
  LEISURE BOOKS ![](images/00002.jpg) NEW YORK CITY
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [THAT DEVIL’S PROMISE](index_split_003.html#filepos2466)
  
  The bedroom had once been light and airy, even beautiful. The colors were a
  soft yellow touched with splashes of green, but time had dulled the tones and
  fabrics to an insignificant whimper of color. The gray daylight merely
  highlighted the nicks in the simple furniture and the stains on the coverlet.
  Though she detected no dust, the simple ravages of time made the room seem
  forlorn.
  
  Still, it was much better and larger than any room Lynette had yet enjoyed in
  her life. She turned to her guide. “Is this my room alone? Or do I share?”
  
  She detected a slight shift to his lips, but Adrian’s eyes remained remote,
  his tone distant. “It is yours alone.” Then he gestured to a doorway half
  hidden in shadow beside the bedpost. “That leads to my bedchamber. I will
  thank you to knock before entering.