The journal
Seen in Press & Social This Summer 2025
Where Mylands paints turned up over the summer of 2025, and what the season's projects had in common: high summer light, warm-bottomed colours, garden joinery, and kitchens and bathrooms that had to cope with steam.
At Mylands, one of the pleasures of the season is seeing where our richly pigmented paints have got to, in kitchens, garden rooms and hallways the length of the country. The summer's projects are gathered below, to borrow from freely for whatever you are planning at home.
Summer light is the most flattering light a paint gets and the least forgiving. It arrives earlier, stays later and comes in at a higher angle, so it lands on the ceiling and the top third of a wall rather than pooling on the floor, and a colour that looked settled in February can suddenly look thin. Most of what we saw this summer leaned into that rather than fighting it.
The shades that hold up in it tend to be the ones with something warm underneath. A warm off-white like Belgravia No.6 keeps a room bright without going stark; a powder blue such as Morning Blue No.32 makes a small room feel airier; a grey-green like Greenstone No.190 hands the light back softly and stays calm through a hot afternoon. Blush and earthy pinks came up again and again, usually with linen, oak and unglazed pottery close by.
Outside, summer is the only sensible window for the work, and a good deal of it was joinery. Exterior walls want a weatherproof, mildew-resistant masonry paint with enough elasticity to move through heat and cold; gates, railings, fences and a summer house door want a gloss, which sheds water and wipes clean. Our Plant-Based Multi-Surface range covers wood, metal and masonry alike, so a bench and the railings behind it can share a colour without swapping tins.
Indoors, kitchens and bathrooms were the other summer job, and the question there is always moisture. Marble Matt Emulsion is water-based and breathable, so it copes with a steamy room without trapping damp behind it, and it is scrubbable enough for the wall behind a hob or a basin. Where a surface takes real punishment, an eggshell or a gloss on the cabinetry and the woodwork does the harder work.
If you have painted something this summer, we would like to see it. Share your projects with us by tagging @mylands_london on Instagram to be featured in upcoming editorials, newsletters and on Mylands' social media.
