The client wished for a redecoration scheme for the Library and Reading Rooms. The original colours had been overlaid and I was asked to produce a scheme in keeping with the colours that would most probably have been used. Various paint samples were taken and from these, and my specialist knowledge, a scheme was arrived at. The image shows the contrast between the test sample area and the paintwork it replaced. The image attached is reproduced by kind permission of the President and Council of The Royal College of Surgeons of England.