Colour your home: exciting new palettes

Make home e place to be

The colours of nature bring calmness, comfort and a feeling of security.

STORY: SHARON WRIGHT

Dulux Colour Forecast 2021 - Nourish palette. Styled by Julia Green. Photography: Armelle Habib. For many of us, 2020 is the year we have never spent more time at home.

Not only are those four walls our private sanctuary, the space within has been converted into our workplace, our school, our child-minding centre and our exercise zone.

In response, Dulux has released its 2021 colour forecast, with design trends refl ecting our desire for reassurance and strength, with nurturing palettes drawn from nature.

Colour and communications manager Andrea Lucena-Orr said our homes needed to be fl exible spaces that could multi-task to accommodate the personal and professional aspects of our lives.

“At the same time, we need our homes to provide balance, calm and a sense of comfort and security,” she said.

The 2021 colour forecast comprises three soothing palettes along with moments of stronger colour to lighten the mood and brighten our outlook.

Retreat invites us to take solace in a tranquil palette of warm whites, brown-based neutrals and dusty blues that conveys a sense of soft luxury, alongside vintage-inspired tones of burgundy and deep ocean blue.

With gentle buff neutral and touches of tan, soft olive and muted ochre the Nourish palette captures our renewed appreciation for natural beauty.

In contrast Reset is an uplifting and optimistic palette of enriching and brighter hues; rich blue and coral, warm rust and playful mash-ups of pink and terracotta hint at Seventies nostalgia and evoke memories of travel and fun.