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Design Inspiration: Spring Refresh With Dulux’s Colour Of The Year

Design Inspiration: Spring Refresh With Dulux’s Colour Of The Year

Every year, Dulux colour experts translate global design trends into the new Colour of the Year. The shade for 2023 is Wild Wonder. It is a light and earthy shade with a glowing tone that connects us with the natural world. It brings positivity and energy to our living and working spaces and is a colour that works with a host of other shades.

The Dulux colour of 2022 was Bright Skies – an optimistic shade that, at a time when we were confined to our homes, connected us with nature and the great outdoors.

Dulux has chosen to continue the theme of nature with Wild Wonder. Discover how you can use this transformative shade, plus its four complementary colour palettes to reinvent your home, through curated mood boards and product selections below. 




Wild Wonder

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Dulux’s colour of the year, ‘Wild Wonder’, is a blend of a warm neutral and a green, making it perfect for evoking a nature-inspired look in any home. In fact, it's so versatile that it provides a relaxed, natural canvas to everything we already have in our homes, from vibrant brights to muted neutrals.


It’s ideal for those who prefer warmer neutral tones. Wild Wonder is recommended for a variety of rooms, from creating a soft look in the kitchen to creating a happy living space that can be enjoyed by the entire family.








Buzz Colours

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Reminding us of the bustling biodiversity of a wildflower field, these upbeat tones can bring a joyful and harmonious feel to all parts of your home. Buzz colours are begging to be used together.

Experiment with stripes and bring in a patchwork of patterns for a joyful and harmonious scheme.

Fizzing with positivity, upbeat Buzz colours can bring a blast of energy to a room – perfect for creating an inviting kitchen or giving a warm glow to a contemporary living room.

Buzz colours are tones that naturally work together so even bold combinations feel harmonious.

Warm and subtle harvest tones, the Buzz palette can bring an element of joy to any room Fun yet multi-functional, these colours are great as a luxurious velvet or fabric on a sofa or a bed will add a colour burst that will energise and create a powerful visual effect to enhance your mood.

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Flow Colours

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Reminding us of the rhythms and tides of life, the Flow palette – made up of fluid seashore tones – can bring a sense of balance to your home.

The Flow palette balances light neutrals with darker shades, so you can create a colour-block effect that feels fluid. It’s the ideal way to zone different areas in a kitchen - dining space.

Warm, neutral Flow colours in the Flow palette can also make the perfect subtle but cosy backdrop for a modern living room.

Even a smart and sophisticated dark colour can feel fluid when it’s painted with Flow colours.

These timeless, seashore shades bring instant balance to a bedroom. These hues will help to define your space and the release of colour can be enhanced by accented pieces like lights, clocks and wall art.

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Lush Colours

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Made up of tones inspired by woodlands and forests, Lush colours bring an instant connection with nature, creating a calm and comforting backdrop in any room.

By offering a subtle connection with nature, this soothing palette can help ease feelings of stress in a home office, and act as a natural counterpoint to our digital lives.

Soothing Lush colours make the perfect backdrop to natural materials and indoor plants, creating a living area that feels calm and uplifting.

The soft greens and neutrals of the Lush palette, combined with Wild Wonder, can create a calming and restorative space for sleep.

Offering an echo of the landscape, Lush colours bring a fresh, warm feel.

By combining these tonal greens with Wild Wonder, you can create a unified and calming scheme. A statement sofa or bed frame would complement a background of muted colours.

Clean and fresh, you can keep the Lush palette colours as the basis of your décor whilst giving you the freedom to experiment with styles and colours that you may not usually consider.

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Raw Colours

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Taking inspiration from the wonder of nature’s materials and designs, the Raw palette helps to create a warm, enriching feel, wherever you use it.

The darker tones of the Raw palette bring rich natural colour to a room without overpowering it – perfect for creating a bit of drama in your home.

Inspired by the warm tones of harvested crops, Raw colours are ideally mixed with Wild Wonder and natural materials for a comfortably rustic feel.

With its soft natural shades, this palette brings cosiness to a contemporary look for a subtle and sophisticated feel.

Combining soft, natural Raw colours with Wild Wonder can build a warm and enriching backdrop to a home office – the perfect springboard for a bit of creative thinking.

Silky whites and light neutrals provide a great blank canvas to build upon.

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Experiment with accessories


Whilst trends and our own personal preferences change, a simple way to refresh a space is to interchange decorative items. Cushions, rugs, throws and lighting can be re-organised to create a new look.

The easiest, and most cost-effective, way of introducing any new colour into a room is by using accessories.

Artwork with a wide array of colours gives room for flexibility and versatility. With any accessory, you can draw inspiration from a particular colour or even a specific motif.

will be sure to stand the test of time and provide a neutral backdrop that can be used as the vision for the remainder of the room or to work with another colour.

Whether contrasting or coordinating with other aspects such as feature walls, bold colours can be highlighted or offset according to your own personal choice.

Soft furnishings such as throws, cushions and rugs provide the opportunity to complement, while at the same time introducing texture and shade which can play an important role.

Natural fibre cushions and rugs showcase beautiful textures and warm colours.

Decorative faux plants and foliage in corresponding shades and hues add the finishing touches to a room setting.

Natural world-themed prints are especially beneficial when you want to reflect the predominant colour you have used, to pull the style together.

Statement furniture can be the main focus with hints of pattern to break up the solid colour. Neutral-coloured seating works particularly well in front of a brighter, bolder feature wall.

At Cousins Furniture, our destination showrooms have a wide range of furniture and accessories that will suit any style of home from traditional to contemporary.

Each sofa, dining set, bed or accessory that we have on display is carefully selected and our showrooms are constantly being refreshed and re-imagined to create immersive room sets for you to be inspired by.

To be enthused by the thought of beginning the journey of refresh and renewal this Spring, visit us in-store or talk to us on live chat.

Our expert, friendly sales staff will be happy to provide any guidance that you may require