Article: SELINA BLOW; The eccentric fashion designer has combined her mother's Sri Lankan roots with her Gloucestershire upbringing to create a madly colourful yet traditional family home off the Portobello Road. Alice BB drops in for tea.

Byline: ALICE B-B

Selina Blow AT HOME WITH

AT HOME WITH Visiting designer Selina Blow's house is like stepping inside a kaleidoscope: the hall and stairway are Kermit-the-frog green, the sitting room is raspberry, the kitchen is the colour of vine leaves and the children's bathroom is pillar-box red. 'I've always been interested and inspired by colour, although I don't buy into snobbery paint: all of these are picked from Dulux,' says Selina, puffing on a cigarette. 'I like the contradictory mixture of colour and formality.' Selina, 37, designs her clothing collections eponymously, and first set up shop in 1994 with Lulu Guinness and Harriet Anstruther ...

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