Current Color Trends
If you don’t count black, white, brown and gray, there are really 6 colors to choose from in the rainbow spectrum. But oh the variations. Whether a purple is muted or bright, how light or dark it is, and other factors add to its current trend appeal. Since there are so many ways to look at which colors make good current, seasonal choices, we will take on the topic as a miniseries over the next week or so.
I’ve been roaming around finding out which paint colors each company is rolling out this spring, dubbing the color trends of 2011 (Kelly Moore, Glidden/ICI, Benjamin Moore, Sherwin Williams, Olympic and more). But no matter what the trends are, a house is only a home if the owners enjoy it and if they are surrounded by what they love. So, we can all take the trends with a grain of salt but it’s fun to know what they are. Paint companies, fashion designers, and retail stores in general spend crazy amounts of money on which colors will sell best every year—so if we’re concerned with following trends for our own paint palettes, there’s no need to recreate the wheel. The information is ready and available. All that’s needed is to walk through a department store or home décor outlet to find out. Or, pop into all the paint companies’ stores like I did.
And whether you’re getting your house ready to sell, or planning on living in it a long time, the trends might play a part with your paint decisions. If you’re home selling, your situation will be a bit different as you need to generally appeal to a wider audience (but please still do not be afraid of color) – see our blog post on whether neutrals or colors are better when getting your house ready to sell. And if you are staying in your home (which will be the case for most of our readers) you can take more risks. It’s only paint – if it’s too avant garde once it’s on the walls, it can be changed. Most good painters will even repaint immediately for a nominal fee.
So on the next post, we’ll dive into paint colors for 2011. We will explore my findings, and of course my opinions, room by room.
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