RICHARD O’GORMAN’S COLOURFUL, ABSTRACT HOME IS A BRIGHT HOMAGE TO RETRO FUTURISM

“I scribbled this neon light design on paper, and a week later, Yellowpop made it.”

Many of us started ambitious DIY projects while stuck at home over the past year or so, but none more so than former model agency booker, Richard O’Gorman. His March 2020 purchase – a Victorian terraced property in Erdington, Birmingham – became a channel for his creativity while furloughed, a canvas for his love of colour and shapes. “I just thought, I’ll never have so much free time again,” he recalls. “So I got a paintbrush and did as much as I could, and I’m still