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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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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Home of Hettie
Painting your home is a large investment which needs to last for years but changing your front door color can be done often to suit your needs and mood. It’s a great way to express yourself while adding whimsy to your overall exterior palette and advancing your curb appeal. Your exterior palette should align with your architectural style, geographic region and much more but fewer rules apply to choosing front door color.
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White is and will forever be the most popular neutral paint color. It’s classic, traditional and modern all at the same time and the nuances of the exact color chosen will help you decide which kind of white is right for your project. Benjamin Moore, with its over 3400 paint color choices offers many, many whites and off-whites to choose from and Swiss coffee is one of the best.
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Amy Krane Color
Creating an exterior color scheme for multi-family buildings, especially in multi-building communities is a challenge all unto itself. The factors one considers, the process to choose and have the colors approved, the time line, all differ greatly from specifying color for single family residences.
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