Transform Your Home Into A Place Where You Belong, With Dulux's Colour Of The Year 2024!
Introduction
In the ever-evolving world of design, trends may come and go, but there's something timeless about the power of colour. Dulux, a pioneer in the realm of paint and colour, continues to set the tone for interior aesthetics with its Colour of the Year for 2024.
In a hectic world, we need our homes to be places where we feel completely at ease. In this blog post, find out how Dulux’s Colour of the Year 2024 and its three new colour palettes can help transform your living spaces and create the perfect space for you.
Sweet Embrace™
Every year, Dulux colour experts translate global design trends into the new Colour of the Year. The Dulux colour of 2023 was Wild Wonder - a light and earthy shade with a glowing tone that connects us with the natural world.
This year, Dulux’s expert trend forecasters have selected Sweet Embrace ™ as the Dulux Colour of the Year 2024 – a delicate, welcoming pale pink that evokes feelings of tenderness, comfort and assurance at a time when stability is hard to come by.
Discover how you can use this transformative shade, plus its three complementary colour palettes to reinvent your home, through curated mood boards and product selections below.
Sweet Embrace ™ is a delicate and optimistic colour, inspired by the softness of feathers and evening clouds. As well as being a versatile colour that can be used on its own as a warm and practical standalone shade, it’s also a great foundation colour that’s ideal for pairing with many other shades for a unique wall colour combination.
Subtle and sophisticated, it takes on different tones in different lights, bringing warmth to north-facing spaces and softness to sunlit rooms. Using wraparound Sweet Embrace ™, you can add a feeling of softness and stability to a living room. Warm. subtle and sophisticated, it creates the perfect background for any mix of furniture.
A Warm Colour Story
Homes should feel warm and welcoming. Research shows that people prefer a comfortable, home-like atmosphere instead of a distant, grand one. Dulux's warm colour story, with its earthy tones, brings a cosy ambience to spaces where people gather to relax and connect.
Warm, natural shades of sand, soil and terracotta, this family of global earth tones can help create spaces that feel familiar and embracing. These colours are ideal for layering to create a warm, comforting backdrop, and they work particularly well in living rooms or places where people want to come together, connect with family and friends and feel relaxed.
The warm colour story offers earthy hues like soil, sand, clay and terracotta that work harmoniously together. Incorporating shades like pink and terracotta on walls and furniture creates a soft and inviting effect. Global, earthy tones bring a comforting sense of belonging for a personal space.
This particular colour palette ties in with a popular interior trend set to dominate the next year, which is Earth colours and warming neutrals. The surge in popularity of warmer neutrals in interior design signals a movement towards fashioning spaces that radiate cosiness, invite warmth, and resonate with the natural world.
An Uplifting Colour Story
This palette is made for having fun with. Mixing deep and pale shades, it offers scope for a range of striking colour combinations and effects. Uplifting colours can infuse energy into various corners of a space. Creative ideas like split-wall colours can transform a corridor into a friendly and lively area. The combination of ochre and Sweet EmbraceTM achieves this effect. Dreamy lilacs and modern yellows can help to bring fun and light-heartedness to a friendly space.
Dulux’s uplifting colour story injects personality and a sense of light-heartedness into exterior designs. Mixing modern ochres and gentle pastel tones creates eye-catching and joyful combinations to enliven exterior elements
Mixing ethereal and dreamy tones of ochre and soft lilac, this colour palette has a contemporary, uplifting mood. Its mix of shades provides great opportunities for dynamic colour combinations that can enliven a scheme and bring energy and positivity.
This is an upbeat palette that is perfect for kids’ bedrooms and kitchen spaces that create a playfulness, creative and inclusive feel.
Soft, dreamy colours are ideal for boosting the natural light and making a space feel uplifting.
This palette is a great way to frame a space and offers the perfect ingredients: energising tones that are upbeat but not overwhelming.
2024 will also see a channelling of a more care-free and personality-packed interior design style. The uplifting colour palette works well with this interior trend in mind and is a great way to inject personality into your home.
A Calm Colour Story
Similar to last year's Colour Of The Year from Dulux - Wild Wonder ™ Dulux has chosen to continue the theme of nature with their Calm Colour Story, using Sweet Embrace ™ as a foundation colour that can work well with a natural inspired colour palette. Soft, fluid greens and blues bring clarity and peace of mind to a simplified space. Recalling the colours of woodlands and seascapes, these soft greens and blues have a naturally calming and clarifying effect.
This palette works perfectly with natural materials such as wood, cork and wool. Mixing darker shades with lighter neutrals, this is a balanced palette that can bring a feeling of simplicity and serenity – perfect for offices, where people need peaceful spaces for focused tasks and for bedrooms to help feel at ease and retreat from busy lives.
The Calm Colour Story incorporates shades that are good for the soul, to help unwind and feel at ease. These colours are ideal in spaces connected to nature bringing the outside in.
With the idea of nature in mind, the calm colour story works well with the rise of natural materials and elements in the interior design trends.
Think rattan, bamboo, and wicker - these materials work well with lush and glorious greens to infuse elements of the natural world into your home. Soft natural blues help us feel in tune with the landscape around us and can create the ideal, uncomplicated setting for focus and attention.
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, which 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 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 year, visit us in-store or talk to us on live chat.
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