Our blog offers a fresh voice on the design scene, with ideas, inspiration and paint color advice focused on color for the built world. Updated regularly, discover current paint color trends and tried and true proven approaches to color design for your home, your business or your brand. It's all about the human response to color. Learn how to choose and apply color in a way that supports well-being and adds beauty and function to any environment. Whether interior or exterior, residential or commercial, smart color design makes the difference between a space that's hardly noticeable and one that makes you feel alive!
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📷 Gabriel Zimmer
As a Designer and a Realtor I get to see a whole lot of homes. I’m going to show you what high end kitchens look like in my neck of the woods but I can promise you this is relevant in most regions of the U.S. These kitchen color palette ideas can work almost everywhere.
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Amy Krane Color
Neutral colors including white, gray and beige remain the most popular paint colors for house exteriors but there's been a rising interest in using dark green paint colors on house exteriors.
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Walk on the Beach
Tired of using neutrals in every room of your home? Looking for a color family that’s both on-trend AND historical? Ponder no longer. Mustard yellow paint colors are here.
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Amy Krane Color- Simply White
You don't have to be tuned into the countless online websites, magazines and blogs to know that "warm" is the design "it" word right now. And warm white paint colors are at the top of that list. Despite the prevalence of earthy greens, deep blues, burgundies and browns, whites remain the most popular paint colors for interiors and exteriors too.
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Sibley Colefax
This year finds us doubling down on color and design trends already begun in years past and adding some new ones starting to blossom.
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Benjamin Moore's 2025 Color of the Year is Cinnamon Slate, a sophisticated muted purple.
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Amy Krane Color
Google says Green is the most searched paint color in 2024. Are we surprised? Not really. I used to think it was a very polarizing color and while I still have a number of Color Consulting clients every year who say “no thanks” to it, more and more people are open to living with green walls.
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Julie Blanner
The most popular neutral for a home interior is warm gray. Agreeable Gray is one of the best. This kind of neutral appeals broadly to people who want a hint of something to take them beyond the emptiness that white can sometimes engender. It's a hint of color which makes a pretty benign low key statement. It works with many other colors.
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