Paint it beautiful Paint colour trends for 2020 Behr
Behr’s Back To Nature is a soft green that reads as a neutral.
Beauti-Tone’s Colour of the Year for 2020 is Spiced Honey.
PPG
PPG’s Chinese Porcelain is a bold blue that looks great with white. Benjamin Moore
First Light by Benjamin Moore is a soft, romantic pink that leans peachier than the Millennial Pink from a couple of years back.
BLUSH PINKS: First Light by Benjamin Moore and Romance by HGTV Home by Sherwin-Williams are both soft, romantic pinks that lean peachier than the Millennial Pink from a couple of years back. Beauti-Tone/Home Hardware
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re there rooms in your home that could use a fresh coat of paint? While you should feel free to paint your walls any colour you like, sometimes it’s hard to know exactly what that is — and it’s helpful to hear about popular paint colours to gather ideas. All of the major paint brands suggest different shades each year based on what they’re hearing from top designers and seeing in decorating trends. Sometimes these colours are pretty wacky — we’re looking at you, 2015’s Coral Reef — but often they’re a good indication of what you’ll see in beautiful homes over the next couple of years. Ready to break out the swatches? Let’s take a look at the different Colours of the Year for 2020 and unpack what might work for the walls in your home — and what might be better left on the shelf at the home improvement store.
DEEP DARK BLUES: Pantone chose Classic Blue, which is exactly as it sounds. Picture a blue crayon in your mind — yup, that’s it, Classic Blue. Sherwin-Williams and PPG also picked similar shades (Naval and Chinese Porcelain). All three blues are dark and bold, so they look good paired with white. Lots of white. Like, even more white. Did we mention they’re really dark? SERENE PASTELS: Valspar decided to be different and choose not one, but 12 colours for 2020. It’s a serene list of pinks, greens and neutrals: Winter Calm, Mint Whisper, Canyon Earth, Grey Brook, Tempered Sage, Desert Fortress, Secluded Garden, Bombay Pink, Pale Powder, Utterly Blue, Crushed Out and Secret Moss.
TONES TAKEN FROM NATURE: Behr’s entire 2020 palette was inspired by the sky, earth, water and plant life, so it’s no surprise that their number 1 is Back To Nature — a soft green that reads as a neutral. The rest of the collection includes a warm greige (Creamy Mushroom), a sunny but not-toobright yellow (Charismatic) and a versatile pale blue (Light Drizzle). Beauti-Tone’s Colour of the Year for 2020 is Spiced Honey, which looks exactly as it sounds. CLASSIC WHITES: While no one named white as their colour of the year, all of the top paint brands included one in their overall collection. That’s because white walls are lovely in a room with plenty of natural light, but it isn’t always easy to know which white to try. If you’re hunkering for the classic appeal of crisp white walls, try Benjamin Moore’s White Heron, Behr’s Painter’s White, Sherwin Williams’ Spacial White or PPG’s Atrium White. ■
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