Imagining Tracey Mannell’s home without its shimmering colours and bold patterns would be like watching Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat on a black and white television. Tracey lives and breathes rainbow shades and floral prints, and when the late-Victorian house came up for sale she relished the chance to refresh its dated and neutral décor with a joyful mix of stripes, geometrics and chintz.
‘I knew instantly what I would do with it,’ says interior designer Tracey, thinking back to the first viewing with her husband, Richard. ‘I’d fill it with loads of colour and pattern, and mix antiques with
